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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK EMS calls here on one (1) hand and fire calls on the other hand. Our EMS services folks also respond to fires and put fires out. They also respond to water emergencies, etc. All of our services that we provide are intertwined with one (1) another, and we feel like this is just a better way for us to account for those personnel and expenditures that we have for the operating budget. He continued, We don't have any changes in revenues or expenditures. This is just an accounting issue. So basically, all we've done is we've taken all of our revenues that we bring in and we account for those back to the General Fund. As opposed to putting them in the two-hundred and eighty-seven (287). Again, we feel like it better reflects operations that the firefighters are responding to medical, fire, water emergency, and all different calls. In regard to our operating budget, the highlights and changes are reflected. This is basically just revenues that are coming in. They remain over projecting at about $5.4 million. That includes charges for services, such as providing services at outside events,such as Notre Dame and other places.The EMS billing,which is the big green portion up here, that accounts for a major portion of our reimbursement, which is more than half. He went on, The St. Joseph County pays or reimburses us, also, for the services that we provide, the paramedic services that we provide in the unincorporated portions of the county. That's reflected in the yellow portion of the pie. Then, we get a separate Medicaid reimbursement for being a municipal agency providing ambulance service. The Medicaid reimbursement, however, is gone from, this program started in 2011. It hasn't drastically reduced in one (1) year, but over time, it went up a little bit and then it started to decline gradually. We work with an accounting firm out of Indianapolis, and we're anticipating a lower reimbursement rate this upcoming year. So, we're budgeting at $440,000 for that money coming in. Which, again, is a lower amount than we received this year. He continued, Highlights and changes specific to the operating budget are such that on the two (2) pie portions here, on the left-hand side this is distribution across all of our funds. Our personnel take up a significant chunk of that, actually eighty-four percent (84%), I believe. Services and charges are eight percent (8%). Inner fund allocations are at five percent (5%), and the supplies are at three percent(3%), with total expenditures of about$37.5 million, which is a fifteen percent (15%) decrease due to the capital in 2019. We had to budget for some of the construction costs associated with Fire Station Number Nine(9).Then,the operating expenditures have a two percent (2%) decrease. Those will be reflected shortly across the different years right here. The majority of our costs in our department are in the personnel. The personnel costs have actually gone down for next year for our budget. I'll speak to that in the next slide. Supplies in our fund allocations and capital have all gone down in our budget for next year. We just want to be able to show everybody how this looks in comparison from year to year. Things gradually went up, up until next year. We made changes, and we're going to be budgeting for lower amounts for next year. He went on, One (1) of those issues is personnel changes. Under personnel, it's about almost $200,000 in savings.We eliminated two(2)positions due to the Memorial Hospital contract,where we were providing drivers for the neonatal ambulances. Memorial reached out to us and have opted to terminate that contract. It's been a nice collaboration with Memorial for over thirty (30) years with our department. Due to some of the expansions and things that they want to do internally, they opted to start a program where they're providing their own drivers. They opted to terminate that contract. We are still under contract with them for the billing side of this through the end of September. There's a portion of the billing side of this that we will continue to do until the end of 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 3