Appropriating $49,231.00 Federal Assistance Grant for Operation of the Youth Services Bureau

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William C. Gilkey Director, Human Resources and Economic Development CITY of SOUTH BEND PETER J. NEMETH, Mayor COUNTY-CITY BUILDING SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 TO: MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH BEND COMMON COUNCIL FROM: CAPPY GAGNON RE: YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU �ooLUTloyef Z a /NDIAtAP 2191284.9409 October 29, 1976 The YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU in South Bend is nearing the end of its fifth year of operation. As I look at my four years as Executive Director of YSB, I am proud of the accomplishments of our agency. In the pages that follow and the slide presentation that goes with it, I hope to enlighten you about our work and prepare you for our request for Revenue Sharing Funds for 1977. The YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU is a body unique in our City Government: we operate totally under the control of elected and appointed City officials yet we have many characteristics of a private social agency. Our Bureau reports to the Director of Human Resources and all staff are employees of the City of South Bend. We have never hired a politically- directed or patronage employee and instead have a group of professional counselors and social workers who combine the best attributes of public- service workers and social- service professionals. As Director of YSB, I have been responsible for securing all the funding necessary to run the agency. We are not yet on the City tax rolls. Our local funding to date has been the Revenue Sharing money we have received each of the past four years._. More than 10 different sources have rovided monies during my tenure with YSB. During 1976, less than ,50,000 of Revenue Sharing money served as the nucleus for an agency with a budget four times that amount! Three employees, whose salaries were paid from Revenue Sharing funds, served as the nucleus for an agency which numbers 24 full and part - time staff! In the pages that follow I will outline,in greater depth, our hist- ory, our goals, our programs, our people, our long -term plan and, most importantly, our 1977 request for funds.