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

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Also, Terry Swift, Ron O'Connor and Roxanne Lawson are our fiscal officers. Jeff Weaver is our Director of Information Systems and Kieran Fahey is our Long-Term Control Plan Director. We also have here Kara Grabowski who is our Director of Marketing. Feel free to ask any questions of any of us. What we do, in a nutshell, is maintain over 2,200 lane miles of streets,remove about 29,000 tons of trash each year and about 13,000 tons of yard waste. We maintain over seven hundred (700) miles of sewers, five hundred eighty (580) miles of water main, one hundred and sixty (160) signalized intersections and 3,000 street lights that we maintain. In addition, we work with AEP on about 20,000 more street lights.Now we have 10,000 catch basins and inlets we have to keep clean and maintained. We have about four hundred (400) miles of alley and almost 5,000 fire hydrants. He went on,Here(referencing the presentation) are the numbers for staffing. You can see,in 2018, one (1) person, our Sustainability Office. Currently, we have twenty-one (21) in Engineering, twenty-four (24) in Solid Waste, ninety-six (96) in Streets and Sewers and one hundred nineteen (119) in Utilities. I will say that our proposal for 2019 is changing this. Engineering will still be twenty-one (21) but we are looking to move the Director of Information Systems to IT and are looking to add a Project Inspector position. On Streets and Sewers, we are looking to add four(4) people who will do various functions of relief such as adding curbs and sidewalks, crack sealing and snow plowing. In addition, we will talk a little bit about our new AmeriCorps Grant. That is the South Bend Home Corps. and the Office of Sustainability.That will be two(2)full-time people running that program and ten (10) full-time members will be in that program. So that is an additional twelve (12) people that are partially funded by that grant and partially funded by the appropriation made by the Council. So currently two hundred sixty-one (261) and proposed two hundred sixty-five (265) and that is not counting the grant funding positions. Comparatively, if you go back about fifteen (15) years, Public Works was about three hundred and seventy (370) employees. It was right around three hundred and thirty(330) employees about ten(10)years ago. So we are down significantly from those numbers but we have asked for some additional folks in the 2019 budget to meet some really specific needs we have. He continued, I want to thank you for our Director of Marketing position. I cannot tell you how helpful that has been this I had not realized how helpful it would be until we actually got someone in the position and had them start doing some of this stuff. In terms of just being able to get increased public education and outreach on all the various programs we run, it has been hugely helpful to help promote those programs. Committeemember Regina Williams-Preston arrived at the meeting at 5:09 p.m. Mr. Horvath went on, We've been able to do a lot of social media stuff including brochures. We are doing a much better job getting the word out about what we do and, specifically, how people can access those services. It is really important that people understand what services are available to them and how they can access them. He continued, So now I would like to talk about some things we have heard from the Council and the community at large in terms of priorities. These are things we have thought very heavily about as we were going through this budget process. Curbs and sidewalks come up most every year. We have over seven hundred and fifty (750) miles of sidewalk in our City. When you look at the condition analysis and how many poor and very poor sidewalks we have in the City,we have over one hundred and twenty(120)miles of sidewalk that meet that poor or very poor condition rating. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION ( EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 T 0574.235.55671 www.southbendin.gov 2