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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK get that review done but it probably will be about a year away, but that's just a South Shore train at the Grand View's Crossing.That'll be the remaining one(1). We're excited about this. It's finally giving some peace and quiet to the westside as well and we appreciate your participation in this. There are no new monies for 2020 in the budget that you have. 2019 meets the needs of the program. He went on, And update real quick on the 2018 February flood for residential impact and infrastructure impact. As you know,the thousand-year flood event,it was a historic record, I don't need to go into that. We've been continuing to look at resiliency and adaptation and part of our Climate Action Plan will be funding the vulnerability assessment. We'll continue the Downspout Disconnection Program. I'm going to lay this out there for members who will be continuing. If you recall, we were doing that program for free and that ended at the end of last year and so now we have until the end of 2020 for people to get off of that system and then at that point it's illegal to be on the system. We'll have to determine what compliance we're going to do and what that means. If there are going to be fines or we're going to do some other program to help people get their downspouts off the system, we still have a fair number of downspouts on the system. He continued, The Basement Valve program, this is the backup valve program. It's a fifty-fifty (50/50) match program. We pay half the cost up to $1,500. Today, we've got two hundred thirty- one(231) applications, one hundred fifty-three(153)people have installed backup valves, and our average reimbursement is a little over $1,000 per backfill valve. In addition to that, as part of the flood,we realized the storm sewers were flooding back into the area when the river got up so high. We're looking at putting some backflow valves on the storm sewers themselves to the tune of about a $150,000 investment and that will happen spring of 2020, those will be installed. Those are currently about done with design and will be installed next year. He went on, And then the final thing I'll mention is that we have put in a real-time gauge now for the river level. We're working with the US Army Corps of Engineers. We've got a grant that will eventually be a flood indicator map where you can do a slider and figure out at what levels it'll start flooding certain areas so that it helps people understand what the impacts will be. Actually, my answers to the questions, I put a link, I can send this link out. There's water alert on there as well. You can set it for whatever you want. I've got mine set at five (5) feet, so anytime the river level gets above five feet, it starts texting my phone and it will continue to do that until it gets down below.And you can set it to whatever level you want and however often you want. It's taking readings every five(5)minutes and it can update pretty quickly. It's a nice thing to have. Anybody from the community could put their number in there or their email and get those alerts. He continued, I won't go into detail on these. Just to let you know that we are continuing to work on all the areas that were public infrastructure that were impacted. We recovered about $200,000 from FEMA. We're still working with our insurance company to recover significantly more dollars on damages. We have not settled on an amount yet, but we're currently, all of these are under design. A couple of them bid out and we're redesigning because I see the prices came in high and we're trying to reevaluate some of these, re-engineer them so you bring the cost down. The idea is that we're going to try to take care of these impacts between the monies that we receive from FEMA and our insurance settlement. He went on, On the Solid Waste side, forgot to say,part of the 2020 budget is a new route camera system. It's a software and hardware system and this will allow the trucks to know exactly where EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY j INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson BvId South Bend,Indiana 46601 p574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 24