08-29-18 Personnel and Finance (#5)

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK He went on, One (1) other thing we are looking at within the handbook and with HR is the pay rate of bringing in someone today. If you bring someone in today, right now, they are starting at the same rate as somebody that has worked for thirty (30) years in that department. We are investigating a tier rate. There will be an amount that officers start at and then after evaluations there will be increases. That is not in place right now but we are going to work with HR to get that up and get that in place for the coming year. Another change we've asked for, based on some research we've done, our Crime Intelligence Analyst we've spoken about, we would like to increase her pay. Then our Assistant Director of Civilian Services which is over the Data Entry Specialist and the Records Specialist, we are asking to increase her pay. Her job responsibilities warranted the increase in her pay. And then one (1) last thing, for budget purposes, we have reduced the number of sworn officers we are asking for. It reflects the current level of sworn officers that we are maintaining right now. We are reducing it down to two hundred and forty(240) officers. Last year we budgeted for two hundred and forty-five (245). In a couple of slides (referencing the presentation)you will see we haven't been able to get up to that. We stayed below two hundred and forty(240) so we felt that would be a good number to budget for. So that is what we are budgeting for and it is a reduction. He continued,We talked about the services budget and here(referencing a slide in the presentation) is the sworn officers level. Like I said, last year,we budgeted for two hundred and forty-five(245) officers. This year we are budgeting for two hundred and forty (240). Right now we are maintaining levels in the two hundred thirty-five(235)to the two hundred thirty-seven(237)range. We felt two hundred and forty (240) would allow us to still man the patrols. There is no way we want to not have officers out on patrol and we feel two hundred and forty(240) will cover it. Here is where we've been over the last year and a half. Currently we are at two hundred and thirty-five (235)officers. We do have two (2)in the academy in Indianapolis so when they get back and have graduated we will be up to two hundred and thirty-seven(237). That two hundred thirty five (235) number, we didn't want to emphasize it but that also includes all of our FMLA officers, our military leave officers, any officers that are on the parental leave opportunity and light duty as well. So,that two hundred thirty-five (235) is generous in that we are down from that number as a result of officers in any one (1) of those categories I just mentioned. He went on, Right here is what we are projecting and what we are wanting to get to. Obviously we wouldn't have recruits through the academy in time to get them sworn on by the end of the year. At the end of the year we will be at two hundred and thirty-seven (237) but next year we are pushing to get to the two hundred and forty(240) level. Then we wanted to also show the years of service that our sworn officers are at. The one (1) thing with this chart is that, in the past, it went the other way. We had more officers in the twenty-five(25)to thirty(3 0)year category.Not to say it's a good thing that we are losing our knowledge base but it is a good thing we are getting newer officers. The ten to fifteen(10— 15)year range where they don't retire or resign as quickly. So we are getting newer officers and we are trying to keep them on. He continued, Here is a six(6)year overview of the number of retirements and resignations we've had. We've had ninety-two (92) retirements and resignations and that was majorly in the twenty (20)to thirty(30)years plus years of service.With this up here,one(1)thing I neglected to mention on the Pension Fund earlier was that it is $6.4 million. That is for our#1925 Funders. The City is responsible for paying those retirement benefits. Those benefits are reimbursed by the State but sometimes the reimbursements don't actually meet at the same time so sometimes there are tiny differences. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 1TD574.235.55671ow wsouthbendin.gov 8