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227 W.JEFFERSON BOULEVARD
SOUTH BEND. INDIANA 46601-1830
SOUTHCITY OF BEND PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAY
Ii;1 BOARDPUBLIC
May 14, 2019
Jeffrey Slonim
The Research Foundation of City University of New York
230 W. 415t Street, 71h Floor
New York, NY 10036
RE: Professional Services Agreement
Dear Mr. Slonim:
PHONE 574/235-9251
FAx 574/235-9171
The Board of Public Works, at its meeting held on May 14, 2019, approved the above
referenced agreement regarding group violence intervention to reduce the City's gun
violence in the amount of $50,000.
Enclosed please find the original of the agreement for your signature. Please sign and return
the original agreement to our office and retain a copy for your records.
If you have any further questions regarding this matter, please call this office at (574) 235-
9251.
Sincerely,
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Linda M. Martin, Clerk )R�
Enclosure
GARY A. GILOT GENEVIEVE E. MILLER ELIZABETH A. MARADIK LAURA L. O'SULLIVAN THERESE J. DORAU
AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY
THIS AGREEMENT is made effective the 14th day of May2019 by and between the
City of South Bend, Indiana (the "City"), located at 227 W. Jefferson Blvd, South Bend, Indiana
46601, a municipal corporation organized and operating under the laws of the State of Indiana,
acting by and through its Board of Public Works (the "Board") and The Research Foundation of
the City University of New York on behalf of the National Network for Safe Communities at John
Jay College (the "Consultant"), located at 230 W. 41St Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10036,
and each a "Party" and together the "Parties".
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the City previously entered into an agreement with the Consultant, wherein
the Consultant provided services aimed toward the reduction of violence and improved public
safety within the City (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, the term of the previous agreement has expired; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the Consultant has the experience and expertise
necessary to continue the forward momentum of the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Board, upon the advice of City staff, desires to retain the services of the
Consultant to support and continue the Project, and the Consultant is willing to assist the City in
its efforts, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the foregoing recitals and the mutual
covenants and promises contained herein, the City and Consultant hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Duties of the Consultant. The Consultant shall provide the Services which
are more particularly described at S"x ibit " attached hereto and incorporated herein. The
Consultant certifies that it has sufficient experience and expertise to complete the Services and
will shall execute its responsibilities by following and applying at all times the highest professional
and technical guidelines and standards. The Consultant understands and agrees that it shall not
commence any additional work or change the scope of the Services provided unless authorized in
writing by the City. No claim for additional compensation shall be made by Consultant in the
absence of prior written approval of the Parties.
Section 2. Project Information; Work Product. The City shall provide all
documents, reports, and other data reasonably requested by the Consultant and necessary for the
Consultant to accomplish the Services. The Parties agree that the City shall be permitted to obtain
at no additional cost and to retain any and all documents prepared or caused to be prepared by the
Consultant in connection with the Services, and the Consultant agrees to provide the City with said
documents upon request or upon completion of the Project. Said documents may be used by the
City or others in connection with the Project and shall be free from claims of infringement.
The Board hereby designates the Chief Technology Officer or his designee to serve on
behalf of the Board as the Consultant's principal point of contact for purposes of this Agreement.
The Chief Technology Officer or his designee will be responsible for the provision of relevant
information to the Consultant concerning the Project and the Services to be rendered by the
Consultant in connection with the Project.
Section 3. Consideration. The Consultant will be paid within Forty -Five (45) days of
the City's receipt of an invoice and in annual installments of approximately Twenty -Seven
Thousand Dollars ($27,000.00) during the first contract year and Twenty -Three Thousand Dollars
($23,000.00) during the second contract year. The total consideration under this Agreement shall
not exceed the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). The City will not be required to pay
any invoice if the City is not reasonably satisfied with the Consultant's performance under this
Agreement or any default or breach of this Agreement by the Consultant exists. Any payment that
the City may deny or withhold or delay shall not be subject to penalty or interest under Indiana
Code § 5-17-5.
Section 4. Funding Cancellation and Payments. In accordance with I.C. 36-1-12.5-
5(d)(4), payments by the City are subject to annual appropriation by its fiscal body. When the City
makes a written determination that funds are not appropriated or otherwise available to support
continued performance of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be cancelled. A determination by
the City that funds are not appropriated or otherwise available to support continuation of the
performance shall be final and conclusive
Section 5. Term and Renewal Option. This Agreement shall be effective for a period
of Twenty -Four (24) months commencing on May 10, 2019 ("Effective Date") and shall end no
later than May 9, 2021 ("Expiration Date").
Section 6. Relationship/Independent Contractor. Both Parties, in the performance
of this Agreement, shall act in an individual capacity and not as agents, employees, partners, joint
venturers or associates of one another. The employee(s) or agent(s) of one Party shall not be
deemed or construed to be the employee(s) or agent(s) of the other Party for any purpose
whatsoever. Neither Party will assume liability for any injury (including death) to any person(s),
or damage to any property, arising out of the acts or omissions of the agents, employees or
subcontractors of the other Party.
Section 7. Assignment; Successors. The Consultant shall not assign or subcontract
the whole or any part of this Agreement to any other person or entity without the prior written
consent of the City.
Section 8. Confidentiality. The Parties acknowledge that the Indiana Access to
Public Records Act applies to information shared pursuant to this Agreement.
Section 9. Indemnification. The Consultant hereby agrees to defend, indemnify, and
hold harmless the City, its officials, members, employees, and agents from any and all claims of
any nature which arise from the performance by the Consultant under this Agreement and from all
costs and attorney fees in connection therewith, excepting for claims pertaining to this Agreement
that arise out of the negligence or intentional acts of the City, its officials, members, employees,
and agents. The obligations of the Parties under this Section shall survive the termination of this
Agreement.
Section 10. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated, in whole or in part, by
the City whenever, for any reason, the City determines that such termination is in the best interest
of the City. Termination shall be affected by delivery to the Consultant of written notice at least
thirty (30) days prior to termination effective date, specifying the extent to which performance of
services must cease. The Consultant shall be compensated for satisfactory performance prior to
the notice date of termination but in no case shall total payment made to Consultant exceed the
original consideration set forth in the Agreement.
Section 11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, all of
which shall be deemed originals.
Section 12. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Compliance with Laws. This Agreement
shall be construed and interpreted according to the laws of the State of Indiana without regard to
conflicts of laws statutes. Any dispute arising under the terms of this Agreement shall be filed in
any court of competent jurisdiction in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The Consultant agrees to
comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations and ordinances, and all
provisions required thereby are hereby incorporated herein by reference. Consultant shall comply
with federal, state and local law in its hiring and employment practices and policies for any activity
covered by this Agreement. Further, the City shall not be required to pay for Services that are
inconsistent with or in violation of this Agreement nor for any Services performed in violation of
federal, state or local statute, ordinance, rule or regulation
Section 13. Non -Collusion and Acceptance. The undersigned attests, subject to the
penalties for perjury, that it is the Consultant, that it has not, directly or indirectly, to the best of its
knowledge, entered into or offered to enter into any combination, collusion or agreement to receive
or pay, and that it has not received or paid, any sum of money or other consideration for the
execution of this Agreement other than that which appears upon the fact of this Agreement.
Section 14. E-Verify. The Consultant affirms under the penalties of perjury that it does
not knowingly employ an unauthorized alien. The Consultant shall enroll in and verify the work
eligibility status of all its newly hired employees, if any, through the E-Verify program as defined
in IC 22-5-1.7-3. The Consultant shall not knowingly employ or contract with an unauthorized
alien. The Consultant shall not retain an employee or contract with a person that the Consultant
subsequently learns is an unauthorized alien.
The Consultant is not required to participate in the E-Verify program should the E-Verify
program cease to exist.
The City may terminate for default if the Consultant fails to cure a breach of this provision
no later than thirty (30) days after being notified by the City.
Section 15. Minority and Women's Enterprise Diversity Development. Persons,
partnerships, corporations, associations, or joint venturers awarded a contract by the City of South
Bend through its agencies, boards, or commissions shall not discriminate against any employee or
applicant for employment in the performance of a City contract with respect to hire, tenure, terms,
conditions, or privileges of employment, or any matter directly or indirectly related to employment
because of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, or disability that does not affect
that person's ability to perform the work.
In awarding contracts for the purchase of work, labor, services, supplies, equipment,
materials, or any combination of the foregoing including, but not limited to, public works contracts
awarded under public bidding laws or other contracts in which public bids are not required by law,
the City, its agencies, boards, or commissions may consider the Consultant's good faith efforts to
obtain participation by those contractors certified by the State of Indiana as a Minority Busincss
("MBE") or as a Women's Business Enterprise ("WBE") as a factor in determining the lowest,
responsible, responsive bidder.
In no event shall persons or entities seeking the award of a City contract be required to
award a subcontract to an MBE/WBE; however, it may not unlawfully discriminate against said
WBE/MBE. A finding of a discriminatory practice by the City's MBE/WBE Utilization Board
shall prohibit that person or entity from being awarded a City contract for a period of one (1) year
from the date of such determination, and such determination may also be grounds for terminating
the contact for which the discriminatory practice or noncompliance pertains.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the award and performance of all City contracts shall
comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Section 16. Non -Discrimination. The City of South Bend is committed to ensuring
equality of opportunity and does not exclude, deny the benefit of, or otherwise subject any person
to discrimination in any City program, service or activity on the basis of race, color, national origin,
sex, age or disability. The Consultant agrees to comply with and to act consistently with this policy
in the performance of the Consultant's duties.
Section 17. Drug -Free Workplace. The Consultant hereby agrees to make a good faith
effort to provide and maintain a drug -free workplace. The Consultant will give written notice to
the City within ten (10) days after receiving actual notice that the Consultant has been convicted
of a criminal drug violation occurring in the workplace within the State of Indiana.
Section 18. No Waiver. No failure or delay on the part of either Party in exercising any
right under this Agreement will operate as a waiver of, or impair, any such right. No single or
partial exercise of any such right will preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise
of any other right. No waiver of any such right will have effect unless given in a written document
signed by the Party waiving such right. No waiver of any right will be deemed a waiver of any
other right hereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto, through their duly authorized
representatives, have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the day and year first written
above. The Parties have read and understand the foregoing terms of this Agreement and do, by
their respective signatures hereby agree to its terms.
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
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Therese Dorau, Member
Elizabeth Maradik, Member
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Section 19. Severability. In the event that any portion of this Agreement shall be held
illegal, void, or ineffective, the remaining portions hereof shall remain in full force and effect. If
any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement are in conflict with any applicable statute or rule
of law, then such terms and conditions shall be deemed inoperative to the extent that they may
conflict therewith and shall be deemed to be modified to conform to such law.
Section 20. Entire Agreement. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and
understanding between the Parties as to the subject matter hereof, and merges and supersedes all
prior discussions, agreements, and understanding of any and every nature between them.
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EXHIBIT A
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REDUCING SERIOUS VIOLENCE IN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
Multi -Year Membership Proposal
David Kennedy
Director, National Network for Safe Communities
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
555 West 57th Street, Suite 601
New York, NY 10019
About the National Network for Safe Communities
The National Network for Safe Communities, a project of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was
launched in 2009 under the direction of David M. Kennedy and John Jay College President Jeremy Travis.
The National Network supports cities implementing proven strategic interventions to reduce violence and
improve public safety, minimize arrest and incarceration, strengthen communities, and improve
relationships between law enforcement and the communities it serves.
The National Network is committed to building a community of practice that operates along a set of guiding
principles.
• First do no harm.
• Strengthen communities' capacitycapaci!y to grevent violence.
• Enhance legitimacy.
• Offer help to those who want it.
• Get deterrence right.
• Use enforcement strategically.
The interventions based on these principles have been successfully implemented in cities across the
country. The Group Violence Intervention, first developed as "Operation Ceasefire" in Boston, MA, has
been successfully applied in cities as diverse as Chicago, IL, Cincinnati, OH, and Stockton, CA. The Drug
Market Intervention, first developed in High Point, NC to eliminate neighborhood overt drug markets, has
been successfully applied in cities as diverse as Providence, RI, Hempstead, NY, and Nashville, TN,
In addition to providing technical advising to jurisdictions implementing these strategic interventions, the
National Network facilitates peer support and collaborative learning opportunities to help cities learn from
one another; address common issues; provide a supportive community of practice for new jurisdictions; and
make these interventions standard practice across the United States.
Summary of Work to Date
From January 2014 through January 2016, the NNSC worked with key partners in South Bend, Indiana, to
design, launch, and support the early implementation of the South Bend Group Violence Intervention
("South Bend GVI"). In December 2016, NNSC staff conducted a site visit to South Bend to assess the
city's progress in implementing GVI during the 2016 calendar year and to identify opportunities, obstacles
and important areas of focus for the NNSC and the South Bend implementation team during the third
contract period. From April 2017 until the present, NNSC staff has provided strategic advising to the SBGVI
board and project manager and provided on -site and remote assistance to South Bend law enforcement,
support and outreach, and community partners as they implemented the GVI strategy.
Next Steps
Over the first five years of implementation, and in partnership with the NNSC, South Bend has made
tremendous progress in implementing and routinizing the core elements of GVI. South Bend has protected
these advancements through the transition in leadership at the police department from Chief Teachman to
Chief Ruszkowski and through a departmental reorganization. In designing this proposal, the NNSC has
considered the progress made to date as well as the key areas of challenge and opportunity as surfaced
during recent site visits and on regular strategic advising calls. NNSC thus proposes to work with the South
Bend GVI partnership to plan and execute the following crucial next steps over the proposal period to
strengthen and sustain strategy implementation:
NNSC's firsthand experience, and the reported experience from local partners, has been that
identifying and empowering project management capacity in 2016-2017 was essential to both
sustaining GVI after its initial period and helping the city build out its implementation further. In the
new contract period, NNSC will support the City in on -boarding a new full-time groject manager
and developing his or her capacity to advocate for and hold accountable all partners associated
with GVI. NNSC will provide the project manager with tools and ongoing development to build this
capacity in a durable way within the city.
SBGVI's Core Group has been a critical advocacy and accountability mechanism for SBGVI since
the strategy was launched in 2014 and is, to NNSC's view, one of the strongest semi -formal
governance structures in existence to drive GVI locally. In its current state, the Core Group has
served as a vehicle to engage critical high-level stakeholders in GVI, keeping said stakeholders
accountable to each other, and created an important mechanism for direction and oversight for the
operational partners. NNSC will support the City in formalizin the Core Grou 's role in drivin
GVI in order to protect these core functions through mechanisms such as formalizing guidelines,
objectives, and mission statement for the Core Group; explicitly committing the agencies and
principals on the Core Group to ongoing participation; and seeking ways to insulate the Core
Group from turnover in the core partners' offices.
Support the South Bend GVI partnership in continually strengthening its capacity to drive the law
enforcement elements of GVI (including intelligence management, strategic enforcement, and
engagement with non -law enforcement public safety stakeholders). NNSC will work with law
enforcement to further develop their intelligence -gathering and analysis processes, in
particular through strengthening South Bend's analysis of social network dynamics. NNSC will
work with SBPD to develop mechanisms to integrate social network analysis and build
intelligence based on shooting reviews, group audits, and regular data capturing mechanisms.
Continue to develop the City's capacity to intervene in violence dynamics in real time by
develoRing mechanisms to connect Public safe!stakeholders including taw enforcement
and community -based stakeholders with the hi hest -risk population outside of call -ins and
enforcement. NNSC will focus in particular on South Bend's capacity to conduct custom
notifications, share information across law enforcement and community partners via strategic
coordination meetings, conduct Community Police Responses to Victims of Violence.
Build on South Bend GVI's strong support and outreach structures by elevating
successes, innovations, and emerging best practices to national peers. NNSC will engage
with South Bend as a thought partner in troubleshooting challenges and opportunities in
the development of this area. NNSC will also continue to connect South Bend support and
outreach partners with regional and national peers, so they can continue to develop their
capacity to protect people from harm, work productively with law enforcement and
community partners, and conduct rapid, effective, credible street outreach.
The NNSC will provide assistance within the following three strategy components to assist the South
Bend GVI partnership in accomplishing these goals:
1. Two-year strategic advising plan: The NNSC will provide ongoing strategic advising with the
specific aims of supporting the core South Bend GVI implementation team, including a new project
manager, as well as the SBGVI Core Group. NNSC has outlined a two-year strategic advising
structure that aims to continue to develop and equip local leaders with the tools and expertise to
guide implementation in the future.
2 Access to management and development tools: To support robust implementation currently
and in the future, the NNSC will continue to make available a series of opportunities and tools to
South Bend GVI designed to build local expertise in both the core elements of the strategy and
in collaborative problem solving. These range from a series of planning and management tools
for use by the new project manager and other leading stakeholders to a series of standalone
modules that can be used to deliver trainings and refreshers in core elements of the strategy on
an ongoing basis to whatever audience is necessary.
a Peer support and collaborative learning: The NNSC will facilitate South Bend's participation in
peer learning opportunities with other NNSC sites. This will include peer exchanges to expose
South Bend to different methods and innovations and continue to build its expertise in GVI;
access to subject matter experts, including law enforcement officers, service providers, and
community leaders who have deep firsthand implementation experience; invitations to a series of
regular conferences of experienced peers and expert advisors on the core elements in the
strategy; and other collaborative methods such as conference calls with subject matter experts
and the like.
Strategic advising
The NNSC will continue to provide strategic advising to help key South Bend GVI partners and
stakeholders shift the way they work together, deliver antiviolence messaging, and execute on
enforcement and service promises to reduce violence. This strategic advising will be structured with the
specific intention of developing accountability processes and mechanisms that empower the project
manager and the SBGVI Core Group to ensure fidelity of the implementation as well as ongoing
innovation in pursuit of public safety. NNSC proposes the following elements of strategic advising:
1. Regular implementation reviews: NNSC will continue to regularly conduct implementation
reviews with the South Bend project manager through the use of a comprehensive implementation
review rubric that will serve as a tool for a) quarterly assessment of South Bend's fidelity to the GVI
model, and b) ongoing strategic planning. As part of NNSC's strategic advising, NNSC field staff
will regularly conduct this review in partnership with South Bend's project manager in order to
identify strengths, gaps, and priorities.
2 Regular executive stakeholder engagement: NNSC will be available to participate remotely in
South Bend's regular Core Group meetings with GVI leadership to the degree that it is useful to the
ongoing implementation. In these engagements, NNSC will be prepared to review the
aforementioned rubric, discuss progress in implementation, and build consensus around identified
short, medium and long term goals. NNSC also expects to offer the SBGVI Core Group support in
specifically formalizing this governance capacity and situating it long-term in the City.
3. Regular strategic advising calls: NNSC staff with deep experience in violence reduction workwill
conduct dedicated regular calls with the South Bend GVI project manager to guide the ongoing
implementation of GVI and prepare for call -ins; plan and support additional investments in the
comprehensive strategy; and provide expert guidance on challenges as they arise. The NNSC will
work with the project manager to identify opportunities to build buy -in and/or engage in
collaborative problem solving by bringing additional stakeholders into the calls. NNSC anticipates
that these calls with occur on a weekly basis for the first six months after the new project manager
is hired, and that frequency will be reduced to biweekly as implementation proceeds.
4. Periodic site visits: NNSC staff will conduct at least one site visit per year for the purpose of
providing in -person strategic advising around specific elements of the intervention, e.g. developing
community -based versions of the shooting review, incorporating innovations to the call -in structure,
etc. NNSC will also use this site visit as an opportunity to meet in person with key stakeholders to
address specific questions, areas of concerns, and emerging innovations and to conduct fidelity
checks on critical processes e.g. shooting incident reviews. As is practicable, NNSC will conduct
and cover costs for additional site visits to South Bend as needed. The NNSC will also make
experienced staff available to provide off -site support for call -ins and call -in rehearsals and assist
the South Bend GVI partnership in refining speaker talking points, slide presentations, and overall
event logistics as needed.
5. Technological support: The NNSC will continue to elevate the use of SharefileTm and BoxTM
storage and file sharing platform —and, potentially, other secure project management platforms —
to improve real- time partnership on documents and tracking information.
6. Other special support as needed: The NNSC will make experienced staff available, when
appropriate or when specially requested, to support the South Bend GVI partnership on discrete
meetings or tasks, e.g., the various subcommittee meetings. Any related travel costs will be
supported by South Bend GVI.
Access to management and development tools
NNSC recognizes that jurisdictions implementing GVI benefit from ongoing development opportunities for
key stakeholders as well as tools to help project managers support rigorous implementation. NNSC feels
strongly that while firsthand exposure, either from NNSC or from subject area experts in partner
jurisdictions, is important when adopting new approaches or emerging innovations, it is equally important
that jurisdictions are equipped with tools to manage their own ongoing successes and challenges with
regard to the core strategy. To this end, the NNSC will support South Bend GVI by offering support in both
areas:
1. Accountability and project management tools: National experience has shown that strong,
ongoing project management is central to the long-term success of GVI. To that end, NNSC has
developed a series of tools designed to support project managers and other operational leaders
and thus bolster the durability of the intervention. These tools include a Project Management
Guide (specific to the implementation of GVI) and tracking documents specific to planning call -
ins, tracking messaging, and providing speaker feedback, as well as the aforementioned
implementation review rubric.
2 Access to GVI University training modules: The NNSC recognizes that there is a need among
local leaders for support in providing ongoing training, refreshers, overviews, etc. to local
stakeholders on a regular basis. To that end, the NNSC has developed a suite of GVI University
online modules, each of which is designed to cover specific theoretical and operational topics key
to the implementation of the GVI. Topics range from the Nature of Street Groups to Strategic Law
Enforcement to Planning a Call -In and are meant to equip local trainers and stakeholders with
both the guidance and content necessary to deliver their own trainings. NNSC has made these
modules available to the South Bend GVI team and will work with local leaders both to
incorporate updates and innovations from the field into these materials and to adapt them where
necessary to the specific conditions in South Bend.
3. Topic -specific workshops and webinars: The NNSC will provide South Bend with the
opportunity to participate in specialized workshops and webinars as needed on specific topics
and emerging innovations. The intent of these workshop/webinar opportunities will be to expose
key stakeholders to the featured practice or concept for the purpose of strategic planning for local
application or rollout. NNSC's intention is to conduct such workshops and/or webinars regionally
where possible in order to facilitate participation from a variety of sites and foster peer dialogue.
Any related travel costs will be supported by South Bend GVI.
Peer support and collaborative learning
Peer support and collaborative learning opportunities remain the backbone of the NNSC, facilitating the
spread of best practices and innovations between cities, helping jurisdictions new to the strategy learn from
peers with firsthand experience, and fostering collaboration among experienced practitioners. The NNSC
will support South Bend GVI by providing multiple vehicles for collaborative learning with other NNSC
members:
1. National peer exchanges: The NNSC will support lateral peer exchanges between South Bend
and other NNSC sites across the country. These peer exchanges expose sites to different
methods, encourage innovations, and help build a national pool of experts in the GVI and
complementary methods. The NNSC will commit to offering South Bend a minimum of two peer
exchange opportunities annually, the content of which will be determined by the specific needs of
South Bend's implementation and/or opportunities to expose South Bend to emerging innovations.
NNSC anticipates that the highest priorities in the first year of this contract may be 1) exposing the
new project manager to high -performing peers in comparable positions in other rigorous GVI sites
and/or 2) exposing SBPD's incoming social network analyst to a similarly situated analyst in
another city. All travel costs associated with the peer exchanges, including for one NNSC staff
member to facilitate, will be supported by South Bend GVI.
2 Working sessions: NNSC periodically convenes functional teams of experienced practitioners and
expert advisors to address challenges and questions that affect implementation across the three
core elements in the strategy (strategic law enforcement, mobilizing community moral voices, and
specially tailoring social services for those at highest risk of violence). The NNSC will invite South
Bend partners to participate in these sessions, helping to expand their knowledge base, exposing
them to groundbreaking practice nationwide, and offering them the opportunity to contribute their
accumulated knowledge to the state of the art nationally. For example, NNSC has identified 1)
sustainable governance and centralizing accountability for violence reduction in city government
and 2) safety planning for the highest -risk group population as two areas coming ripe for
examination and discussion among the NNSC's peer jurisdictions and anticipates prioritizing these
two topics for further exploration. Any travel costs associated with the working sessions will be
supported by South Bend GVI.
3. Regional Collaboration: As the NNSC has grown and implementation of GVI and similar
approaches has spread nationally, opportunities for regional collaboration among active NNSC
partners have proliferated. Over the last two years, NNSC has begun developing strategies to
maximize regional collaboration among partner jurisdictions in the Midwest, including Gary, IN;
Minneapolis, MN; Detroit, MI; Kalamazoo, MI.; Jackson, MI; Lexington, KY; Chicago, IL, as well as
South Bend. Any travel costs associated with participation in this regional collaboration will be
supported by South Bend GVI.
As part of this contract, South Bend agrees to host a regional convening in the second year of this
contract period and to provide in -kind support as deemed necessary (e.g. working breakfast for
participants).
4. National Conference: The NNSC will hold its fourth national practitioners conference in June
2021. This biannual conference brings together our core partners across the country (expert
practitioners, local and national leaders in violence reduction, academic partners, etc.) to discuss
the innovations that are making communities safer. This conference is an opportunity to link the
people doing and thinking about this work; create opportunities for peer learning and exchange of
information; and advance the groundbreaking practices cities are driving in areas such as the
development of real-time intelligence on groups and group dynamics, safety planning for the
highest -risk populations, community -based tools to intervene in violence dynamics, and strategic
prosecution. NNSC prioritizes attendance at the conference from active GVI practitioners and
anticipates reserving slots for members of the South Bend GVI team. All travel costs associated
with the National Conference will be supported by South Bend GVI.
Budget narrative
The National Network will work directly with local stakeholders to achieve the goals outlined in this
proposal. The National Network requests $27,000 in Contract Year 1 and $23,000 in Contract Year 2 (total
$50,000) to provide the above scope of services. This price will secure National Network strategic advising
for a period of 24 months, from May 10, 2019 to May 9, 2021.
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violence. This strengthens local capacity for the Group Violence
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