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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK the Drucker Institute, one (1) of the things is called Caring for our Shared Spaces. That's one (1) of the tenets that they have. Making sure it's widely accessible and available, and clean. Committee Chair White followed up, So then the expectation would be that individuals are working within our facilities that they would have the expectation to ensure that the centers in which they work in would be clean? Mr. Perri responded, Each center staff does have one (1) custodian assigned to it. Actually, that was just a recent change. They're reporting now directly to the center staff. Then our facilities and grounds team will be responsible for the major projects and repairs as well as the exterior landscaping, snowplowing, cutting grass and otherwise. Just like we treat every other park and facility. Committee Chair White asked, But as we move forward,as homes are being increased and looking at Howard Park, just the size of that park alone and then from the operating perspective as we move forward, what would that look like in order to ensure that the facility and the programs and the services are maintained with the staff that you might have? I'm looking at the operating budget and there are some gaps there. Mr. Perri stated,We're not adding a lot.With Howard Park,we didn't reduce a lot of the staff when we closed it down. We had a Director of the Howard Park Community Center. At one(1)point in time you may remember Rose Kaufman. Committee Chair White replied,Yes. Mr. Perri continued, Rose is still there and she's going to come back on as the director of that facility. She also has a part-time employee that helps out with some of the programing. We didn't eliminate those positions over the past couple of years. Same thing when we close Charles Black Center. I promised the Council that we wouldn't eliminate positions.We found ways to keep people employed throughout these construction projects and otherwise.You're seeing things like a modest increase in staffing for Howard Park. That's primarily part-time positions. Most of that is the ice- skating rink guards or people that will take money and give you your ice skates. That's where most of it is. We're trying to do everything as lean as we can. That's really important to us. Committee Chair White followed up, Yeah. I'm looking at projections in terms of revenues and there are some projections but also you are looking at a proposed increase of$800,000 for support. That's coming out of COIT funds. I'm on page seven (7). Reduce to $400,000 2019 but you're proposing to bring that up to $800,000 for 2020. Mr. Perri replied, Historically, that had covered things like the allocations and otherwise. I had mentioned it was about$1.1 million dollars. Last year we had a pretty healthy cash reserve balance. We were able to take that down to $400,000. But given the property tax reductions that we're facing this year, we would have to face some really difficult decisions if weren't able to get some additional General Fund support. Not quite to the historic levels of the$1.1 million dollars but up to the $800,000 will help us be able to ensure we can do all of our programming and care for all of our things to our existing standards. EXCELLENCE � ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION j INCLUSIONI EMPOWERMENT 455 CountyCity Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TfD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 15