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

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK He continued, We also established our first (I") public electric vehicle charging stations in South Bend. They are right out by the County-City Building. Something we are continuing to promote is cleaner burning fuels in vehicles. We are committed to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate Change and Energy. We have signed onto a few other climate partners. We have continued to provide leadership on climate waste and sustainability throughout the area. And then, as I briefly mentioned, the South Bend Home Corps. was able to get a$150,000 grant to start that up. You'll see in the budget that the facilities, energy management and guest electric bills will all stay in the Central Services Fund. We've split those out. Sustainability used to have two (2)people in it. One (1)person moved last year to facilities management. So that portion will be split out of the budget and will stay in Central Services. Sustainability and the AmeriCorps Program will stay in the General Fund. So that is where it is funded for 2019. He went on, We also have in the budget, you'll see $70,000 for technical support. One (1) is for the climate change plan and the second (2nd) one (1) is the streetlights, the AEP streetlights. That is trying to get them to convert over to LEDs or find some way that perhaps we even take them over and convert them to LEDs. It will be an undertaking to try to figure out what the best route is and then try to move forward with that in 2019. The South Bend Home Corps. is our AmeriCorps program. That will hit two hundred (200) low-income homes. We are going to work with home owners to help better understand their energy and water uses so we can help them reduce those costs. So we will do things like weatherization, a little salt, programmable thermostats, low flow aerators and tanks on toilets and things like that so they can reduce their water and sewer bill. Hopefully they will see savings on their electric, heat, water, sewer and all the way around. In addition to that, we will look at life safety issues such as radon and lead in the homes. We will work with partners to try and address those as well. Are there any questions on sustainability? Councilmember Jake Teshka asked, The Office of Sustainability is taking a huge hit on their IT allocation. What is the formula or rationale behind that? It is like eleven point three percent (11.3%) of the total budget. Mr. Horvath replied, I don't know specifically but I can get that for you for sure. So when you look at the IT allocations, it is really broken down as to where those costs came from. It has a number of different elements. One (1) element is the 311 piece. For Water and Sewer you will see those are pretty high because they get the majority of 311 calls. Then we've got some of the IT specific needs like computers and stuff like that. Therese Dorau, Director of Sustainability with offices on the 13th floor of the County-City Building, stated, I would say the IT budget just looks big because the rest of my budget is not that big. I don't have a lot of project expenses as most of my expenses are personnel related. Last year our IT budget included our energy management software but now that is moved and stays with facilities management so it is part of their budget. It may look big but IT is really good at showing all the added costs. Mr. Horvath stated, It actually did go down from$46,000 to $19,000 from 2018 to 2019. Keep in mind, we've kind of split the department. We moved the facilities management piece over. We can send you a breakdown of all those costs. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I 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 TTD574.235.5567 wwvw.southbendin.gov 5