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•CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committee Chair Karen White turned to the public for anyone wishing to speak either in favor of or in opposition to Bill No. 32-19. Seeing none, Committee Vice Chair, John Voorde made a motion to send Bill No. 32-19 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. The motion was seconded by Committeemember Jo M. Broden and carried with a voice vote of three(3) ayes. Committee Chair Karen White turned to the public for anyone wishing to speak either in favor of or in opposition to Bill No. 33-19. Seeing none, Committeemember Jo M. Broden made a motion to send Bill No. 33-19 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. The motion was seconded by Committee Chair, John Voorde and carried with a voice vote of three(3) ayes. Bill No. 34-19- Ordinance Levying Taxes and Fixing the Rate of Property Taxation to Meet City's Expenses for the Fiscal Year end December 31, 2020 Dan Parker,City Controller for the City of South Bend,with offices on the 12`h floor of the County- City building stated, So, Bill No. 34-19 is our annual bill to levy property taxes for the 2020 year. The rates in that bill are based on estimates that we have from the DLGF. The final rates will be given to us in a December time frame. Which will be from the State. The DLGF will send us the final rates, so this is just an estimate at this point. This is consistent with the way we've passed it in the past years. Committee Vice Chair John Voorde stated, And these are high estimates. Mr. Parker replied, They are. So, very conservative estimates. So, the way that we calculate these estimates is we actually take eighty percent (80%) of last year's net accessed value as the denominator to calculate our tax rate with the anticipation being that there would never be a twenty percent (20%) decrease in accessed value in a single year. So, these estimates are extremely high compared to what will be the ultimate rates that we'll get from the DLGF. Committee Chair Karen White opened the floor to any Committee or Councilmembers wishing to ask questions or to make comments on Bill No. 34-19. Seeing none,Committee Chair Karen White turned to the public and asked if there was anyone wishing to speak either in favor of or in opposition to Bill No. 34-19. Seeing none, Committee Vice Chair John Voorde made a motion to send Bill No. 34-19 to the full Common Council with a favorable recommendation. The motion was seconded by Committeemember Jo M. Broden and was carried with a voice vote of three (3) ayes. Bill No. 35-19- Ordinance Appropriating Monies for the Purpose of Defraying the Expenses of Departments and Funds of the Civil City of South Bend for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2020 Dan Parker,City Controller for the City of South Bend,with offices on the 12th floor of the County- City building stated, So, this is the first of two (2) budget bills that we will bring for the City appropriations for 2020. Bill No. 35-19 is the Civil City Funds, and then Bill No. 36-19 is the Enterprise Funds. I don't have handouts for you for the Committee meeting. What I propose that we do is wait. I have a presentation that I'll go through at the Council meeting this evening so that the public can hear that as well, but I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have in the meantime before we get to Council this evening. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld',South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 3