09-17-18 Personnel and Finance (#9)

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4.0 CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Sue Kesim, 4022 Kennedy Drive, stated, We would appreciate this presentation on the website to include the additional information. We would like to see a tech-solution to the parking garage surveillance. There have been fifty-one (51) attacks in downtown South Bend on women in the last month according to the media. So there were attacks in the parking garages as a particular problem. Maybe there could be more surveillance or maybe push buttons or something. That is something to consider because that is an issue. One (1) of the thoughts was, and I talked to Chief Scott Ruszkowski, instead of having such high-speed chases that put the public at risk, maybe activate some drones to follow the perpetrators rather than high-speed chase them. This one (1) is from Sharon, she is interested in knowing if, maybe for Wednesday, attached to each name who has a cellphone and who has a tablet because it adds to the cost of that employee. She is also wondering how many people really need a City cellphone or tablet. There was a request to have a drilldown on the $600,000 that comes out of both Water and Waste Water for IT. Is it all for MetroNet? The lighting map is one (1) of the things we wanted to see online. Perhaps with that map you could put the poll number. Also, put the direct AEP link on the website so people won't have to call 311. They could just click on it and file it themselves. Just as a side note, a long time ago I worked a consulting contract with Mishawaka Utilities and I actually did a tracking of all the lights in Mishawaka. One (1) of the things we would like to see, and Ms. Broden seconded this, is a Sewer Map like we do for roads to show the progress for those. We still have some critical neighborhoods that have sewage in their basement and they would like to know the progress. That might also help track the bond spending. It would be nice to have an overlay of the tax-sale properties with the code violations. There are about 2,400 tax sale properties right now and a lot of people are just buying these properties from all over the world and hanging on to them to get it for ten percent (10%). They aren't going to improve it. It will sit there and create code violations. We have a lot of derelict properties. When I looked at the map, it is all over. She continued, Also, a dumping map of where tire trash seems to accumulate. One (1) of the suggestions I had was maybe partner. I understand there are 7,000 tires that get dumped in the City. It is about two dollars ($2) to get rid of them and that is an extra $14,000 to the City. My thought was we that we have Tire Rack,Bell Tire,and Zohlmann,and maybe they would be willing to partner with the City to put a big tire bin in with their logo on it for publicity and then recycle them or something. We would like to see the checkbook program come back. Just strip out the routing numbers and any other information that would compromise security. To find things, we are having to go back through Public Works approvals and that is not very practical. We would like that brought back in some form or fashion to track expenses. Solar power at the park pavilions. We would like to see charging stations. Have a USB port to charge their phone. That is a security measure. If you're at the park and your phone runs out of battery, you can't call for help or whatever. So we think we should have them on trails, too. We would like access to the whole budget and not just parts of it. The financial part. Obviously we are getting the presentations now but actually all of it and that means all of it. There are accounts called other, sinking Funds, TIF information. We think of that old thing where they blindfold the elephant and the person feeling the tail says oh, it's this way and the person feeling the tusk says it's this way and all the other people say something else. We feel we are just getting pieces and parts and not getting the whole picture. We would like the whole budget online, the financial stuff, so we can examine it. South Bend Animal Care and Control,we think it would be good for them to have their own website just like the Police have their own website. Reason being is people don't think to go to the City website and click down three(3)times to find permits for their animals. We think if the South Bend Animal Care and Control had their own website,they could feature more dogs and cats to adopt out. They 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 f 574.235.9173 TO 574.235.5567 I www.southbendin.gov 19