09-18-17 Personnel and Finance (Public Input)

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approximately every seventy-two (72) years with the total amount we allocate for paving in the budget every year. Am I misinterpreting that? Ms. Banicki stated, VPA is asking for the lease of that$600,000 vehicle over five (5) years. Has anyone gone to Elkhart to try and wheel and deal with them to see if they could do a partnership? What happens if we don't agree to the vehicle? How many people do we have out,daily,picking up animals and working on that? Councilmember Tim Scott arrived at the meeting at 5:21 p.m. Mr. Bognar stated, When Tax Incremental Financing came in, it was said to have the ability of being used for improvements on things like sidewalks, sewers, lighting, and curbs. A lot of the City area is a TIF District. I understand when new projects are done that new lights are put in and that Light Up South Bend is doing well, but I am concerned that the majority of the lights in the City are AEP-owned. I think it is important we have funds coming from many different places. We don't have a way to consolidate everything we are doing. Has the Department looked at a way to consolidate all the funding for the lights? It seems like there are bits and pieces in place, but no consistency. When projects are done, we don't have any consistency with the lighting. There needs to be more money added to this.Not necessarily from the City, but there needs to be a strategy on the basic maintenance of the majority of lights that we have. There is nothing wrong with the lamppost program. Could we incentivize using TIF Funds? Mr. Horvath replied, We do have an updated and ongoing paving list. That list is based on the condition of the roads we look at. We have what is called a PASER Rating that gives us the conditions of the roads and we prioritize as a result of the rating. Unfortunately, we don't have enough money to do all of the ones in poor condition. We have about 2,200 lane-miles in the City and we do somewhere between twenty(20) and twenty-five (25) lane-miles a year with City crews. That is $550,000 in the Local Roads and Streets Fund for paving material. In addition to that there are costs for staff. We have started to look at the program and have tried to find ways to give us additional life out of pavement. When a road gets really bad sometimes there is no other way to do it but tear out the entire thing and re-pave. More often than not,we mill off the top inch and a half or two (2) inches and resurface the street. We are also doing more crack sealing and other pavement rehabilitation stuff throughout the City. Although we only do twenty (20)to twenty-five (25) lane-miles,that does not include all of the other projects we are doing where we get either grant money or federal aid money. We have been pretty successful in the past couple of years in getting both. He continued, We do have a new app that our crews use as they are doing the paving. They update it in real-time. It shows a map and segments the projects that are in the queue. We are doing our best to be sure it is accurate and up to speed. Mr. Perri replied, We have been hearing a lot of good feedback regarding the vehicle. That is a Mobile Recreation Vehicle that would go throughout neighborhood parks. It attempts to accomplish two (2)main things. The first would be to address the issue of equity. We often hear about parks when people point out how a certain park has this and why a different park doesn't have that. In reality, we can't install everything in every park. The unique solution to that would 3