08-15-18 Personnel and Finance (#3)

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK of the increase in our expenses, we do have enough in our cash balance that we can use. We have to think about 2020 and 2021 but this should help us with this , ear. He went on, The big highlight is the need for us to procure the two (2) trucks. We are seeing landfill costs increase. Our revenue is staying about the same but our costs do increase so we have a three percent(3%)increase in landfill costs,insurance numbers have gone up,truck maintenance cost seems to be going up and that is something we would like to control more. We are in the process of looking at some grants. We plan to apply for a grant to purchase the new trucks. There is no change in personnel.However,we are asking for a small more than two percent(2%)increase in our Solid Waste Director salary to bring it up to more of the standard for the industry. Committee Chair White paused the presentation and opened the floor to questions from Committee and Council Members. Committeemember Williams-Preston asked, What is the percentage of the increase of the director's salary? Mr. Kain replied, Six percent(6%). Mr. Horvath stated, I will move onto utilities but before I do, I would like to give a shout out to Solid Waste. We've had some transition as of late and we had a number of vacancies in some of our positions. Kelly Smith first(1S) came over from wastewater to help us out and we've kept her on full-time as a director and also LaMonte Taylor. And Sean Ward has also done things outside of his duties. Mr. Horvath continued, Utilities I will go through quickly. Basically, water and wastewater, we provide safe drinking water out of their tap. We then take it back to the wastewater plant and clean it before we discharge it back into the river. We have nine (9) well fields and five hundred eighty (580) miles of water main, seven hundred (700) miles of collection system pipe and one (1) wastewater treatment plant. Some of the accomplishments include doing a lot of work on lead. We are very fortunate to have non-aggressive water so it doesn't leach lead out of the pipes of homes. At the same time, no level of lead is safe and so we've done a number of things to help with outreach to make sure people understand that it is a real concern. There are ways to minimize those exposures and there are brochures that went out to every one (1) of our customers. We also put some stuff in schools to try and do education there. Then there is a valve turning program we started for the first (1St) time. The reason that is important is that we have a break or some issue where we have to isolate areas, we have to use the valves to do that. And if we don't have those working, after a number of years they rest, and then you might be closing down a whole section of the City. That is an important program we are doing now. He went on, To go over a little bit of the funding, you can see (referencing a slide in the presentation) that in terms of revenue, we appreciate the Council helping with the rate increase that is making a significant difference in our ability to actually do capital improvements in the first (1St) time in a very long time. You can see that we are projecting from 2018 to 2019 that we will have significantly more dollars available to put into capital and that is about$3.7 million. You can see that on the expense side, too, going up from $18 million to $22.3 million and that is largely attributed to the capital projects which you can see here. We were doing very little capital in 2016 but have been ramping it up in the last couple of years and really getting some of these major needs EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY ( INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1 227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 1 www.southbendin.gov 17