Approptiating $20,000.00 Federal Assistance Grant

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CITY of SOUTH BEND ROGER O. PARENT, Mayor COUNTY -CITY BUILDING SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 Katherine G. Barnard Neighborhood Code Enforcement 219/284 -9486 Director 219/284.9498 219/284.9303 March 17, 1981 City Council Members City of South Bend County -City Building South Bend, Ind, Dear City Council Members: The Neighborhood Code Enforcement Office is requesting $20,000 in Federal Revenue Sharing Funds to supplement the budget for the 1981 Summer Environmental Clean -up Program. The money will provide support services-for equipment repair, truck leasing, gasoline and equipment. The personnel costs will be paid by CETA from the Summer Youth Program Fund and the program will be administered by the Neighborhood Code Enforcement office. A coordinator for the Summer Environmental Clean Up crew will be hired and start work by May 15, 1981. I will interview the candidates and hire the coordinator who will report directly to me. In addition, 7 supervisors will be hired by the coordinator and myself during the 3rd and 4th weeks of May. These supervisors will report to the coordin- ator of the summer clean up program. Each supervisor will be responsible for a crew of 5 teenagers, the equipment assigned to each crew and for driving the van to transport the crew and the equipment to the work site. There will be 7 clean up crews. Each crew will be assigned to an area of the City that has already been established by the Neighborhood Code Enforcement office. The crews will be assigned the responsibility for the clean up of lots designated by the Board of Public Works, City -owned lots and the alleys in their area. Each team will have 3 lawn - mowers, rakes and other appropriate equipment. The year round clean up crew will be assigned the responsibility of picking up the accumulated trash collected by the summer crews and taking the trash to the landfill. In addition, the year round crew members will operate our 2 large mowers used for mowing large vacant lots, operating the front end loader and operating our 3 chain saws when this equipment is needed. Foreman Ed Nowak will continue to supervise the year round clean up crew, coordinate daily clean up activities with the coordinator of the summer clean up program and be responsible for the maintenance of all of the equipment. The coordinator of the summer clean up crews will be responsible for distributing the daily work to each team, following up to make sure the work is completed on a daily basis and solving personnel and other problems that will undoubtedly come up each day.