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

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Mr. Horvath replied, Yes,that is correct. That is in our proposal for 2019. Committeemember Voorde followed up, Are they supervisory? Mr. Horvath replied, We get to answering that question later on in our presentation. Councilmember Sharon L. McBride stated, I have a compliment. I did go through the 311 system to assist someone with a light outage. I had good response both from the City and AEP. Within a week they had it repaired. AEP kept calling me to update me on what they were doing. The only thing that did not correlate was the 311 work order number didn't coincide with AEP. So it took them two (2) days for them to try and find out what was what. I want to commend you all for that. Committeemember Regina Williams-Preston asked, How much does it cost to put in a speed hump? Mr. Horvath replied, I can give you a rough cost. It is around $20,000 but it really depends on the road and drainage issues that are specific to that area. I think in some of the areas that are more proficient in doing them, you'll probably see numbers in the $10,000 to $12,000 range. We contract that out. Mr. Horvath continued, So now we are going to talk about sustainability,it is our office of one(1). As an office of one (1), Therese works really hard to make a big impact. We are trying to be a catalyst of helping make things happen. She has driven a number of projects and really has had some significant contributions for being such a small office. Her goals, as you can see(referencing a slide of the presentation) include helping all departments to think about sustainability on an ongoing basis in everything they do. We hope sustainability becomes a business-as-usual concept for us. We want to constantly think about the environmental impacts our construction has. She works hard to do that beyond just the City Government and in the South Bend community as a whole. She works with the Green Ribbon Commission which is a group that goes out to get greater awareness for sustainability in the community. There are a couple big things we are working on that look at our Green House Gas emissions and how that relates to Climate Change. We are trying to prepare for the impact of climate change in the community. Whether that is resiliency stuff or even heat change stuff, it's probably not a coincidence that in the short time I've been here we had a 1,000 year rain event and a five hundred (500) year flood. So engineers are going to try and figure out what that means in the future as the intensity changes. Those impacts are changing. We will have money in the sustainability budget to address this. We will start working on the climate change plan and I know the Council is wanting to do something in terms of policy on climate change. We look to work hand in hand on that in 2019. He went on,We also intervened in the I&M Rate Case.There were things we wanted to see happen not just for the environmental benefit but also to limit the impact to our residents, specifically our low-income folks. Through our intervention and we had other intervening partners with us, we were very successful. The rate they proposed was a nineteen point seven percent(19.7%)increase. The approved rate by IURC was seven point three percent (7.3%). The fixed portion of that for residential was ten dollars and seventy cents ($10.70) and that was lowered to three dollars and twenty cents ($3.20) as approved by IURC. So we were able to significantly reduce the impact on the resident's electric bills, especially to our low-income residents. That was no small matter as it was quite the undertaking. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 1 TTD574.235.5567 lwww.southbendin.gov 4