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Ken Glowacki, Director of Finance, South Bend Police Dept. -701 S. Sample Street, explained that there are eight (1) drop officers to be paid from the City's Police Pension budget, while there are eight (8) drop officers that will be paid under the State's new pension program. Mr. Glowacki also clarified that the Police budget does fund the State's police pension program and is not reimbursed. Mr. Glowacki explained the total budget for Police is $36.3 million. He elected to offer a comprehensive view of the budget, as opposed to offering a detailed fund by fund description. Most of the budget comes out of the General Fund at $29 million. Personnel Services and Salaries shows an increase of one percent (1 %). The department is at two - hundred and forty -one (241) officers now, will add a recruiting class, and have eight (8) drop, program officers, so the department has budgeted for a total of two - hundred and fifty (250) maximum officers. It only depends on whether or not recruiting counts spike unexpectedly. Councilmember Scott added that the officer count is a realistic expectation, as opposed to budgeting for the ideal amount of two - hundred and sixty (260) officers. He prefers the department come back for an additional re- allocation if necessary, but doesn't anticipate that happening. Mr. Glowacki added that the department, like all departments, has an eight percent (8 %) increase in insurance costs which is reflected in the Personnel Services and Salaries Fund. They also added the insurance costs for retired officers which is an additional $400,000 in benefits costs for twenty -eight (28) retired officers. The department saved some money because of a decrease in PERF rates to seventeen point five percent (17.5 %). Supplies also show a decrease of $149,000 but the department has yet to incorporate any savings reflected from CNG. Mr. Glowacki expects to see major savings from their CNG transition, but there's not enough data to confirm those savings. The Other Services Fund has increased to $2.7 million which is mainly due to allocations for new administration fees of $900,000, the General Insurance Fund increased to $1.2 million from approximately $500,000. The IT allocation jumped from $60,000 to over $1 million. Councilmember Kelly asked what the administration fee was. Mr. Glowacki explained that fee is for the Mayor's Office, City Legal and Common Council. Councilmember Kelly followed up asking why they're charged for administrative fees. John Murphy responded it covers Administration and Finance, the Legal Department, the Common Council and Mayor's Office are paid out of the General Fund. Since the Police Department is a General Fund department they were not charged those fees in the past, but better accounting is to charge anyhow. The funds are refunded to the General Fund, so it's more of an accounting thing. X