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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Assistant Chief Todd Skwarcan stated, it's been a long five(5) years, I'll say that. I really feel that we're on the cusp of making some pretty dramatic improvements. The new CAT software is coming online at the end of this year, and we went through four(4) directors. It's been a struggle, but I think we're getting ready to finally see some of the expectations. Scott Ruszkowski, Chief of Police for the City of South Bend stated, I would say the same thing. It's been five(5)years and it's been an arduous process to say the least. However,being that we've had several directors I think the current director Schultz has been very transparent in recognizing the flaws that have adversely not been addressed or even hidden prior to this. So, they've been very transparent, forthcoming and having several meetings. Not just with command people or operations board, but with actual officers who use these systems on a daily basis and getting input from these officers. I think that's really the next step for us. Committemember Jo M. Broden stated, I don't know where to begin honestly. I would like a long- term analysis of this going back to inception to dollars that have been contributed over time. When you talk about a long five (5) years, if our community doesn't know that we need to put it out there. What the financial impact has been over time on all the entities for this. Then, I also want to identify that structurally unless there is a change in the balance and the composition of that organizational board, we're going to have some of the same decisions. The City, while we have a high call volume in terms of impact and effectiveness and efficiency,we're never going to be equal partners at the table until that composition of that board is adjusted. I don't know what the capacity is in terms of the neighborhood ordinance, but frankly too many decisions have gone on without our ability to impact it. As the largest users with a significant portion of the funding I guess I'd also like to ask too, what happens to the actual building itself and its capacity, its staffing models if the 5-million-dollar contribution is actually pulled out? Then an additional question is what is our capacity to operate? I know there's a requirement to have a backup system in place.That would be a request basically to flip this on its head and kind of revert back to the old. I just want to know what kind of entanglement (call them interlocals), but you also can call them entanglements that we're on the line for, and structurally how that can happen. I think at the heart of this is Executive Board composition and the fact that the City of South Bend (not just on this board), but on all boards at the County level are outnumbered. That's a huge disappointment, and if there's capacity to change that I would love to do that going forward. Committemember Jo M. Broden went on to state,On the finances side they've been working these numbers for over a year and a half. Why is there a change in what they typed out and distributed to the board versus what they gave to you today? Mr. Parker replied to Committemember Jo M. Broden stating, If you see any numbers out there that show that there's going to be an $800,000 dollar increase to the City of South Bend what that is,is comparing 2020 to 2019. The better comparison is 2020 under the current distribution versus 2020 under the new distribution. We're expecting income tax to increase from 2019 to 2020 in any case. The change was due to an error that was in the original analysis that was since corrected. Committemember Jo M. Broden replied, My last comment is I think a number of entities are getting blind sided on this. It's not the City of South Bend, it's not Mishawaka and it's not the County. It's going to their services, it's going to impact what they pay before us, the partnerships and agreements that have been drafted, and I think all of those entities need just out of courtesy EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.917 3 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin i.gov 6