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IDCITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK the Indiana Civil Rights Commission as well. We want to increase our attendance at community events. We want the community to know who we are, where we're located, and what we do. We want to increase our federal funding due to an increase in cases and our case production. We want to continue to strive for completing cases in a timely manner. That is one hundred and eighty(180) days. We want to seek out grants and other forms of revenue to supplement the General Fund. We seek to maintain our contracts with the EEOC and HUD, which we've done for many years. We want to maintain our Community Investment contracts of CDBG with the City of South Bend and currently pending with the City of Mishawaka and re-establish that grant. And lastly, our commissioners have asked for more opportunities to train, so we want to make available more funds for them to train. Ms. Moya stated, So, the next couple of slides (referencing the presentation) are the budget overview for the Human Rights Commission and I think that in the interest of time, I want to skip over to the Operating Budget Highlights and Changes,which actually address some of the changes in the budget. In 2019, a part-time administrative assistant will be added to the General Fund, to help with the intake,due to the increase in caseload. The Human Rights Commission budgeted for a second(2°d) administrative assistant in 2019 and St. Joseph County agreed to reimburse the City to fund one (1) of the part-time positions, specifically for housing. And on a good note, we have received an extended contract indefinitely with St. Joseph County with regard to our inter-local agreement. And so, what they have funded has been about $30,000 a year. That's a base number. And I believe that we plan to revisit that in the coming years based on the number of cases that we actually investigate in St. Joseph County. Not the City of South Bend, but St. Joe County. And then moving on, the Employment Manager position was moved out of the General Fund and into the grant funding.That is our#258 account which holds both EEOC and HUD. And that particular position handles all of the EEOC issues, which is what Crystal handles. And then I handle all of the housing issues and I come directly out of the #258 account as well. The decrease in fringe benefits is due to a one (1)-time break in health insurance costs per employee in 2019. In 2020, health insurance costs per employee is budgeted to increase back to the regular rates. We have an inter-fund allocation decrease, and that's again due to usage. We've had some staffing changes, decrease specifically. And we are hoping to be able to bring up our staffing needs in the coming years, hopefully by this year. She continued, There was also the decrease in other services and changes of fourteen percent (14%),which is due to the new rental lease agreement which eliminated the cost of property taxes for the portion of square footage for the facility we currently are housed in, which is 319 North Niles Avenue. As far as printing and advertisement, we had a line item in there, under one (1) of the accounts which was #258 and the expense account was switched over to #217, and that was for clarity purposes. And the reasoning for that is, again, that's scholarship funds and we did not want that in the #258 account. We have received again, funding from St. Joseph County to investigate the discrimination complaints from county residents in accordance, again, with that inter-local agreement. And then we have a part-time housing administrative assistant request that we would like to promote to a full-time intake officer/investigator. The position again, is funded in part by St. Joseph County and the General Fund. The position is needed to accommodate the increase in case load due to county jurisdiction expansion. And then as far as the Employment Manager and Housing Manager go, which we still currently hold those titles, we are requesting the increase in title change to Director of Employment and Director of Housing, and then this change was made as a result of the Executive Director of Human Rights, who retired in January 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 21