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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK the presentation) so we can anticipate that in the 2020 budget we will be looking for another $2.5 million for Olive Street. She continued,I put the 2018 flood up here to highlight the effort and the ongoing work happening that is related to the flood. We've been working with Robert Yeary and the insurance process as well as FEMA. They have been in town for quite a few months now. They are looking at our projects and are inspecting our projects. They are doing their due diligence. We are looking at, potentially, upwards of$3 million of project costs here. We have a good idea of insurance being involved in that. She went on, Streambank Stabilization is a little bit complicated. Of course you have right-of-way at the T intersection but you also have private property ownership on either side of that intersection. A portion of that bank is owned by the City and the other portions are private. We did, this ye , receive a DNR grant to provide some technical assistance to do an engineering feasibility study. That $45,000 is actually a max amount up to eighty percent (80%) so we can engage with a consultant to begin looking at what type of stream bank stabilization we could do here in the area. That is an unfunded element of work for us. The sewer and manhole rehabilitation is an annual project we work on,budgeting$1.5 million out of Sewer Capital.This past year we did work along the CSO eighteen(18)corridor and we are looking to try and do some sewer manhole lining along Diamond Avenue this year. Lining is a great way for us to take care of our assets in a non-invasive manner such that we don't have to tear up the roads. The CSO eighteen(18) corridor, I realize, is a little inconveniencing because it was such a large project. She continued, And then the Long Term Control Plan (LTCP). We continue to move and make headway as we move forward with IDEM and the EPA on the LTCP. This year we plan on continuing that effort. We are working on beginning to look at Green Stormwater Infrastructure. So we are proposing $200,000 for design work that would create templates and then begin implementing that in different areas throughout the City. She went on, We have some challenges and new initiatives for this next. Stormwater Utility is one (1) of them and Eric will follow up on that. We look to increase funding for traffic calming and do work on the South Bend dam and the West Side Quiet Zones.Another challenge is the LPA Project Funding. There are some great expenses hitting us all at once with three (3) of those LPA projects being with MACOG in 2020. The current bidding environment is also unknown and the market is very saturated right now. A lot of our contractors have a lot of work and we are sometimes not seeing them show up for our bids. The personnel changes include that new Project Inspector which will be one hundred percent (100%) allocated to Venues, Parks & Arts and then the engineering allocation is new this year. Committee Chair White paused the presentation and opened the floor to questions from Committee and Council Members. Committeemember Voorde stated, I went to a meeting the other day and neighbors by the Eddy Street Commons area, specifically Frances Street, have noted it is very dark. Is there some way that can be addressed? Ms.Boyles replied,Lighting is easy for us to take a quick look at.I feel like we've done that before in that area.I know about three(3)years ago I worked with a resident there and helped them initiate EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building(227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend.Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 If574.235.91731 TM574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 10