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• Qtommtttu *sport: Personnel and Finance Committee IT0 tbs tOmmolt CountUY of the City of Rout 140: The September 5, 1995 meeting of the Personnel and Finance Committee was reconvened at 4:05 P.M. in the Council informal meeting room, by Committee Chairperson,Council Member Steve Luecke. Persons in attendance included Council Members: Kelly, Zakrzewski, Duda, Ladewski,Puzzello, Coleman, and Luecke; Jeff Rinard, Citizen Member Cathy Roemer, Don Pinckert, Assistant Chief Joel Wolvos, Police Chief Ron Marciniak, Kevin Horton, Tom Scarbek and Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand. Council Member Luecke began the meeting by introducing Citizen Member Cathy Roemer to the Police Department Administration Staff.He noted that this would be the first meeting where the individual Department would be reviewed with the overall preliminary review of the budget being provided last week. Police Department Budget: 1995 Budget = $ 13, 290, 893.00 1996 Budget= $ 13, 890, 532.00 (requested) The Police Department Administration then provided a handout entitled "1996 Budget South Bend Police Department and Communication Center". Chief Ron Marciniak noted that the Performance Base Budget Format was followed and it provides the opportunity to set forth the wide based programs carried out through Police Department. Don Pinckert noted that the new concept took a substantial amount of time and effort in detailing performance indicators and took a substantial amount of time and input from the staff. Mr. Pinckert then reviewed the packet of material. He noted that it began with an introductory from the Chief highlighting that the Department is divided into 3 basic divisions namely Services,Uniform, and Investigative with each being further subdivided into specific programs. Immediately after the line item data is the 1996 budget summary which he then reviewed. Following all of the Police Department data then is the Communications Budget. Council Member Kelly stated that he recently had a relative in from the state of California who is a Police Reserve Officer. He is very excited about the concept being proposed by the Chief. Chief Marciniak noted that the concept has been discussed since the 1980's when he was Services Chief. 30 Reserve Officers are proposed for the 1996 calendar r. Each would require 1 week minimum of mandatory training. He also noted Y � that workers compensation has not been included in the budgetary dollars. Duties that could P g �'Y be covered by a Reserve Police Officer would include traffic control at major intersections during storms, fires, parades, walks, house moves; they could do accident investigation and provide invaluable assistance to the Department.