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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Councilmember McBride asked, In 2020,what is the total overall debt? When you're talking about expenses versus revenues, was there a net? Mr. Perri replied, We actually showa budget bd et that would be in the black of$129,000. g Councilmember McBride followed up, Okay. I don't want to take up all the time, but I am interested in more information about the negative $1.1 million dollars for My SB Parks & Trails, but I can defer that and ask later. Mr. Perri replied, We'll make sure that we get that written down. � Committeemember Voorde asked, Can you comment at all on Fredrickson Park? You may be partnering with the Scouts over there to try to do something. The Scouts may be in trouble. Mr. Perri replied, Fredrickson's an interestingThe Cit has invested quite a bit of money Y Y into it. Those of you that have been on Council for a while understand. It's a former landfill site so the City about, I want to say eight (8) years ago now, invested well over $1 million in a clay cap and a methane burning system. We made it into, basically, a prairie. We have some trails through it but other than that it's a prettypassivepark. Not a lotyou can do with the claycaplimitations. Can't really install footers and playgrounds and pavilions and some of those things.The Boy Scouts are obviously a huge stakeholder in that property. They're backdoor butts right up to the park so we did sign an MOU through the Park Board making it what they call a STEM park so that they would put together Scouting projects,Eagle Scout projects,and otherwise,and put them on display for the community to engage with. They did an Eagle Scout project a few years ago that involved an overlook on the retention pond that's back there. They help out with the mulching,the paths and otherwise. But I think there' are some creative things we could still do there. It just hasn't been in the immediate plan. I think we have something like thirty (30) odd project sites happening right now. Quite a bit, but it's not all of them. In Fredrickson, we've got a nice willing partner that has some ideas. We continue to be vetted through the neighborhood and we look forward to seeing what comes from it. Committeemember Voorde followed up, I think Fred Ferlic is working on it. Mr. Perri replied, Absolutely. Dr. Ferlic, Joe Grabill, and Judge Gotsch. A lot of familiar names are on that Boy Scout board. You do have some good community engagement there. Councilmember Scott stated, Grass cutting. Something I forgot to talk about today, I'd like to sit down with you and maybe John and talk about how we can expand the youth program for grass cutting. Again,this year, of course Council gets tons of calls on grass lots and I think there's more we can do to employ our youth. I know you've talked to a few individuals, and I know John has, but I'd like to sit down and figure out what we could do to increase those numbers. More than double that. Figure that out. Mr. Perri replied,Absolutely. We have a lot of grass cutting calls that come to us because not only are we in charge of parks but we're also in charge of all the redevelopment properties, and Code mowing. So, we have quite a bit of resources going into grass. As a matter of fact, we did an exercise recently. Grass cutting alone when you look at our budget, I mean it's north of a half a million dollars in the grass cutting. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 17