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

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committee Chair White asked, You mentioned the South Bend Home Corps. program would hit two hundred(200)homes, is there a particular area of the community and who will identify where those homes will be? Mr. Horvath replied, We are working on that right now. We are working with a couple agencies and trying to get their help in identifying those. There are agencies already out there that are looking at making sure there is some way of verifying income and stuff. That can be a big process. I don't think we have that identified yet. Ms. Dorau stated, Our goal is to fill gaps that are missed by other programs. So a lot of the programs that use Federal or State funds have serious restrictions on who they can include in their programs. We want to be a little more generous and accommodating and help those folks that don't usually get accepted into those plans. Kara Boyles,City Engineer for the City of South Bend with offices on the 13th floor of the County- City Building, stated, Engineering manages the design and expansion of the seasoned structure. We see projects all the way through planning, design and construction. We are setting standards while also inspecting and permitting projects throughout the City. Our team (referencing a slide in the presentation) has around fifteen(15) full-time employees. That is anywhere from an Assistant City Engineer to a Project Engineer and a Project Inspector. We have three (3) inspectors that do construction inspection for the City. There is a manager for that team and then one (1) of those inspectors is dedicated solely to permitting while the other two (2) are project inspectors. That is any and all projects and there could be thirty(30)to sixty(60)projects split between those two (2) inspectors. You will hear and see in the presentation by the Parks Department that we are about to spend $30 million on six (6) projects alone. So with those projects coming, we feel there is a tremendous need for another project inspector. By bringing on another FTE, it would be one hundred percent(100%)allocated to the Parks Department but that inspector could help defer some of the costs we see that would typically be project costs but we could actually reduce the amount for inspection by bringing someone in house which would allow the dollars to be spent more toward the actual project. She continued, I will now highlight some of the accomplishments we have seen in 2018. We tried to emphasize the roadway improvements you are seeing all throughout the City. We are working on the cross streets, the Community Crossings Grant Project, taking advantage of the partnership we have with State of Indiana. That is a fifty-fifty(50/50) matching grant with the State. We have done some additional paving and have tried to incorporate other paving projects. For instance,we are doing a project at AmeriTech at the by-pass. Focusing on curbs and sidewalks this year we have Monroe and Studebaker Safe Routes to School happening. We are also getting ready to bid out LaSalle and Marquette.That is a fall 2018 project.We have added about a mile long trail along Boland Drive, so, adding connectivity in terms of connecting Portage and Riverside Drive. We have also bid out the annual curb and sidewalk which includes Council allocations this year and that just happened in June 2018. We've done some asset management work, some drainage projects and used some road funding in order to do $500,000 of small drainage projects. We did some traffic calming pilot projects this year for the first (1St) time. We were partners in the Safe Street Academy so we did those projects over in the Northwest Neighborhood area. She went on, I also like to point out that, while we are managing these projects, we are like consultants as well,throughout the City,to Venues,Parks&Arts, Fire,DCI, and anyone doing an EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1 227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 46601 j p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 1 TTD 574.235.5567!www.southbendin.gov 6