09-06-17 Personnel and Finance (#5)

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percent (7%) increase between the two (2) Funds. He then referenced a slide in the presentation depicting the Departmental Revenues. He stated, In 2016 revenue was $875,000, in 2017 it is projected at$654,000 and projected in 2018 is $712,000. Overall there is approximately a nine percent (9%) increase across the two (2) Funds. He then showed a couple graphs depicting the same information. Marlaina Johns, Data Analyst for Code Enforcement with offices on the 13th floor of the County- City Building, stated, Most importantly, we have gone up forty-five percent (45%) in the amount of tickets issued. Most of that is because of the continuous enforcement properties that have been abated. Once they reach the second year status, the ticket amount goes from two hundred and fifty dollars ($250)to five hundred dollars ($500). We have seventy-seven percent (77%) involved with grass and weeds. Jen Gobel, Manager of the South Bend Animal Care and Control with offices located at 521 Eclipse Place, stated, We brought in $30,000 for tickets. We have seen an uptick in enforcement and ticket writing. Tracy Skibins, Deputy Director of Code Enforcement with offices on the 13th floor of the County-City Building, stated, We have a few Key Performance Indicators. The first and foremost is in outreach. We try our best to put people in touch with resources they need to make the mandatory improvements. This includes neighborhood clean-ups and meetings. Councilmember Jo M. Broden arrived at the meeting at 5:07 p.m. Mr. O'Connor then briefly overviewed the few slides that depicted the Code Enforcement Inspectors budget. He continued, We are down eight percent (8%) overall in the inspector revenue. Ms. Skibins stated, We are fully staffed currently with the hiring of the new inspector this past May. The one (1) change is changing the title of Data Analyst to Operation Analyst. The change in title just better reflects the day-to-day responsibilities of the position. Ms. Johns stated, 2017 was the first year we had the landlord registration. We had one thousand two hundred and ninety-seven(1,297) registrations created. Within that,we had four thousand seven hundred (4,700)properties registered and one thousand three hundred(1,300) owners registered. Mr. Wilkerson stated, It is also important to point out that with the landlord registration this year, we found some LLCs. It is working as we hoped it would. Ms. Skibins stated, We have some goals and challenges facing the Department for 2017. We are looking to improve the Accela Software. We are also assessing the commercial structure of a few buildings. Our inspectors are trained in many different areas of inspection. We are looking at past-due invoices. We are purging most of our files to eventually become fully technological. 2