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City of South Bend
SBStat Post Meeting Notes
Date September 11, 2019
Department: Neighborhoods
Urgent Issues Review During Meeting:
• N/A
Performance Management Memo V1 Revised: 8/16/2016
Decisions and Key Takeaways
• Sidewalk Repair Program
• It would be helpful to advertise “bundling” opportunities to help residents realize cost savings
• Council allocations could include cost reduction for “bundled” recommendations
• Contractor availability and pricing is an ongoing barrier to residents accessing the program
• Continue pilot in 2020 (target areas with higher reimbursement rates and program availability to
non-home owners)
• Property Acquisition and Disposition
• Communicate with Code Enforcement when acquiring property
• Different departments have different time horizons for property decisions but increased commu-
nication will help find overlapping interests
Other Topics Discussed
• Community partnerships for park maintenance will ease the burden of acquiring and building new parks
• Analysis of historic costs for sidewalk repairs paid by City vs. residents; consider whether City should pay
for all repairs up front and introduce new taxation
Potential Topics to Discuss Next Meeting: Visualizing place-based investment
• Shared Goal: improve analysis and understanding of neighborhood investment
• This goal can be met in many ways, including a potential new data analysis or visualization that can be
communicated on a per-capita, per-household, geographic, programmatic, or other lens
• Important to incorporate information on past (dis)investment to contextualize current data
• Catalogue programs and spending areas to include and consider basic services vs. targeted investment
by Q4 meeting