08-24-10 Demolitions, new facilities to benefit neighborhoods

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Office of the Mayor NEWS RELEASE August 24, 2010 4 p.m. Demolitions, new facilities to benefit neighborhoods Contact: Mikki Dobski, Director of Communications & Special Projects, 235-5855 or 876-1564 Gregg Zientara, City Controller, 235-9216, Phil St. Clair, Director of South Bend Parks and Recreation, 299-4765 or Catherine Toppel, Director of Code Enforcement, 235-9486 The two departments with budgets on schedule for review Tuesday by the South Bend Common Council most prominently intersect when it comes to the mowing of cited properties, particularly vacant and abandoned houses. But proposed 2011 budgets for the departments of Code Enforcement and South Bend Parks and Recreation also share this common trait: Activities and capital projects that will benefit South Bend neighborhoods. Proposals for the upcoming year include new equipment to help improve citywide mowing by the Parks department, especially in support of properties cited by the Department of Code Enforcement. Although it is not funded in the proposed budget, South Bend Parks also is appealing for capital allocations to build new baseball field at Belleville Gardens, open the city’s largest splash pad at Potawatomi Pool and launch a new annual concert/festival series.