08-08-18 Personnel and Finance (#2)

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK of being a great employer with great employees by investing in our diverse and competent team. Thank you and I am happy to answer any questions. Committee Chair White opened the floor to questions from Committee and Council Members. Committeemember John Voorde stated, In that collaboration area,we were told a long time ago, I think, there was a new animal control ordinance in the works that had come from Code Enforcement. The last time I inquired about it they said it was up in Legal. That was a long time ago actually. Do you have any update on that? Ms. Steele replied, Great question. So when we initially had been questioned about the Animal Control Ordinance,you'll remember that was when our new Shelter Manager was onboarding. We had some passage of time, you are right. We have been going through the article piece by piece but it is with the Department of Code Enforcement as they are working on it. What we do under the ordinance is we have those sections of the Code we are proposing to change,they are submitted to the Animal Care and Control Commission,which would then make recommendations to you as a Council. It is my understanding that we are planning on giving the first (Ist) three (3) articles to the Commission at the next meeting. We would share that with the Council through Bob. It is coming and we want to make sure it is done correctly. Councilmember Oliver Davis stated, Thank you for your report, I appreciate knowing that. A couple of things. Area Plan,with the proposed changes to Area Plan moving to the City Planning, would that also change the legality? What are some preliminary thoughts regarding that and in terms of getting together to set up that structure. I know like with TRANSPO, the City Council appoints four (4), two (2) Democrats and two (2) Republicans, and then the mayor then appoints three (3),probably two (2) one (1). And so we need to look at that kind of a legal structure. If we are going to have just a seven (7) member board, similar to TRANSPO but there are two (2) Mishawaka ones but for the City of South Bend we have four(4),but for us to have that structure, legally, are there any stipulations the State has we need to know about? Ms. Steele replied, Those are all really great questions. As you know, what we have now is still in the works and being discussed. We are still working on a lot of the details. So it's possible that we would have a different attorney assigned to that but right now we don't have many of the details as the plan is not ironed out. But when we do we will. Councilmember Davis interrupted,I don't mean the same attorney it's just the facts,well,probably wouldn't be good to have the same attorney in case there was a conflict or challenge that somebody would have to deal with but something like that. But those are some kind of things. With the numbers you gave, seventeen(17)twenty-three(2 3)in terms of APRA requests and you also gave 2,540 plus for collected, did you find both of those numbers being more or less than last year? What are your thoughts and reflections on them?Final thing,you said six(6)attorneys went to the conference and you said it was very helpful,tell us how. Ms. Steele replied, Ok, great. Councilmember Davis stated, Ok, I'm good. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227W Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 ITTD574.235.5567Iw wv.southbendin.gov 4