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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK we want to grow and what we want to do and how we want to treat the residents that live here, we should acknowledge the broad impact of community trauma and mental wellness across education, criminal justice, juvenile justice, economic development, and housing and transportation, and commit boldly to investing in that compassionate and equitable future with our resources today. She went on, Another initiative is the Homegrown Project which is a diverse law enforcement candidate recruitment and development program. Funding and resources would be from the City of South Bend and the St. Joseph County Police Department. The purpose of this inter-agency inclusive local law enforcement recruitment solution, the Homegrown Project, is to provide a community-led diverse candidate identification and development structure for South Bend and St. Joseph County. We understand that in today's climate this is necessary. It's not a unique issue with the City of South Bend.This is something that law enforcement agencies all across the country are looking at. But we would develop a unique structure here in the City of South Bend. And in the wake of all the conversations that are happening across the United States, more importantly the conversations that are happening right here in the City of South Bend,it's clear that our community is mandating that we see more gender, ethnic and racial diversity in the representation of the law enforcement community that we're asking to protect us. She continued, The last special initiative that IDEA is working on for 2020 is creating a CDFI- friendly community. Funding and resources for this project would come from public and private partnerships, the City of South Bend, various CDFIs and local organizations. The proposal is to expand and stabilize South Bend's work to create inclusive and equitable community economic growth by providing financial resources to historically under-represented populations for entrepreneurship, business capacity building, investments, home repair and short-term lending as an alternative to predatory lenders.We also want to advance the fact that South Bend would be the second (2nd) community in the nation to become a CDFI community. Why do we want to do this now? Because we alreadyhave financial institutions that are here locallythat are committed to doing this. And I think it's something that we need to move on now. Committee Chair White stated, Mrs. Brooks, you went through that very fast, so I want to make sure, more than likely, we'll ask you to come back. I want to give the public some opportunity for questions. Again, the Council, we've got to hold our questions until we give the public the opportunity. And then what will happen is that we'll make sure that the questions are being addressed. We're recording those questions and they will be not only addressed,but they also will be posted on our website. Committee Chair White then opened the floor to members of the public wishing to speak. Jason Banicki, 3822 West Ford Street, stated, It's kind of an ongoing theme with some of these g g budget hearings, but we see a lot of people being re-titled from Manager to Director, or from this to Manager, and then two (2) years later, they come back and ask for pay increases. Yet, a lot of times when you look at these managers or directors, they're managing literally nobody or almost nobody. I understand that everybody sees everybody else getting these title changes so they want them as well, but in the private sector, you would never see a manager or a director of literally nobody or two (2) people. And again, when they come with subsequent salary increases, I think we need to be careful when we consider these title changes because they may seem minute at the time,but we saw,and I didn't bring it up in the first(1st)budget presentation,where we made some of these title changes a few years ago,but now guess what?They're back two(2)years later, "Hey, EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend.Indiana 46601 D 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574 235 5567 www.southbendin.gov 24