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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Ms. Aldridge replied, The award I'm aware of 1s the Race-Informed Award. A lot of these awards are based on additional dollars and staff that are with it. I know that Council has put a lot more money into neighborhoods. Mr. Jones interjected, You said the City has put more money into neighborhoods? What neighborhoods? Committee Chair White replied, In our current budget, yes. And I will be sure you get a copy of the current budget. All neighborhoods should see an improvement but this is one (1) area that has been neglected. This budget is the most reflective budget in terms of having dollars go back into the community. Ms.Aldridge stated,And the awards are compared to other cities our size and what they are doing. So we are doing very well for a city our size. Does that mean we are perfect?No and we still have challenges that we need to work on. Mr. Donaldson stated, When you talk about the City of South Bend you talk about the City of South Bend. And the City of South Bend is nothing but the City of South Bend. All areas of the City of South Bend make up the City of South Bend. And if you constantly strengthen areas of the City of South Bend without other areas of South Bend, then what we have is disproportionate. Again if I lift weights and I only strengthen my left side, I'm going to be deformed. And this City is deformed based upon how they go about spending dollars.We see Eddy Street and the area East of the river grow but the area West of the river, specifically this area over here, there is decay and blight. That area over there is penthouse material. You got an outhouse over here and a penthouse over there. Let's fix that. Committeemember Broden stated, I do want to say there was a group, and it may go back eight(8) months, but they focus on training opportunities. It is called incremental development. Basically, they try to identify people in the various building trades within a community and link them together so they can pull off new builds and projects. They focus on the vacant lots. They are individuals from the community that work together. There have been a couple work hops and the first(1St)one (1)was well attended at the library. If you know anyone in the building trades, they may be doing some level of this already. One (1) of the reasons we funded it was because there is a real need with all the housing taken down to fill in those spaces. When we did the tour around here, it is very obvious there are blocks with opportunities. So when we talk about dollars available, if we can get a network of builders making a petition to develop an entire block, we just need those to come forward. That's a way to take dollars that are sitting there that just need the links to be made. I invite you all to make people aware of that and to encourage them to get in contact with Community Investment and us as Council Members. I will talk to the gentleman who is charged with growing that locally. It is called the Incremental Development Alliance. The idea is doing small scale rehab. It can fill in a lot of the gaps. Committeemember Williams-Preston stated, If you have that information, especially about the workshops, please let us know. I remember last time we didn't get that information until a few days before. Plus, it was around two hundred dollars ($200) for each ticket. We shared the information with the neighborhood associations and we did get some scholarships to go but it was very last minute. We, as a City, need to do a better job communicating these opportunities. I EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 I f574.235.91731TTD574.235.55671www.southbendin.gov 10