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getting together and finding out what those are is important. In the Community Relations Committee I chair, we are discussing some programs to get curbs and sidewalks refurbished in communities and seeing how students can bring their ideas to that reality. James Mueller, Chief of Staff to the Mayor, stated, We are undergoing purchasing-procurement consolidation that's spread across all the departments right now, and trying to get that more centralized within the Administration and Finance Department. We hope to draft an idea for that, similar to what we did for Venues, Parks and Arts and how we moved ahead and then finalized it in the budget. Also, this year there will be some sort of public input component for the priority- based budgeting. We are still figuring out how that will work and where in the process it will be, but it will happen. We are also looking into the call center and gathering data from that to better understand the concerns citizens are having. John Murphy, City of South Bend Controller, stated,Not much else to add. We continue to monitor revenue. Property taxes were good for 2016, we still don't know what 2017 will be. We got the levy that we asked for but that doesn't always translate into revenue. Budget kick-off will be around late May. With no other business to discuss, Committee Chair White adjourned the Personnel and Finance Committee Organizational meeting at 5:21 p.m. RZsecAtf`ully Submitted,, Karen White, Committee Chair 2