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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK <br /> Ms. Hockenhull stated, That's correct. Tonight, I have with me Kyra Clark. This is a joint <br /> presentation as it's not just Kyra and I, it is all of the departments. If there is anything you want to <br /> see differently for next year, let us know. We've never done it this way, and we're happy to make <br /> tweaks. Referring to the presentation (which is available in the City Clerk's Office), she stated, <br /> This is a chart to see the different full-time positions over time, and you'll see that they go up and <br /> down as we go back and forth with private partnerships and those sorts of things. As you can see, <br /> we've gone up, but not drastically. She presented a chart to show where all of the positions lie <br /> throughout the City. Public Works has two hundred sixty-seven (267), Police has two hundred <br /> eighty-eight(288), and Venues Parks&Arts have one hundred fifteen(115). That makes up about <br /> two-thirds (2/3) of our workforce, and most of those folks are actually under bargaining <br /> agreements. When we're looking at this non-bargaining salary ordinance tonight,we're really only <br /> talking about that last one-third (1/3) of the pie there. Additionally, in 2019, we are requesting <br /> seventeen(17)new positions. <br /> Kyra Clark, Director of Human Resources with offices on the 12th floor of the County-City <br /> Building, stated, I give a lot of credit to Jen Hockenhull and Councilmember White for coming up <br /> with the way to make this as transparent as possible. We are coming at this trying to get you as <br /> much information as we can and as clearly as possible. We are open to your feedback. She then <br /> explained the color coding of the presentation. She stated, Each department head is here to talk <br /> about their specific presentation, and they will be presented in the order in which the budget <br /> presentations were made to the Council. <br /> Mayor's Office <br /> Laura O'Sullivan, Chief of Staff for the Mayor's Office with offices on the 14th floor of the <br /> County-City Building, stated, We would like to move our Project Manager from part-time to full- <br /> time. It is just an increase of one point eight five percent (1.85%) over this last year. <br /> Committeemember Voorde asked, Can you give an example of what the project manager does? <br /> Ms. O'Sullivan replied, Yes, we'll be using this position to work on intra-department projects. <br /> This person will report to our Deputy Chief of Staff to get more bandwidth on a full-time basis to <br /> get those projects done. Also any projects that happen with more than one (1) department, we've <br /> seen we have a gap in coordinating those and communicating between the departments, so that <br /> will be the main focus of this position. <br /> Councilmember Jo Broden asked, Project centers, or areas of responsibility across the <br /> department, I need a little more clarification on that. <br /> Ms. O'Sullivan replied, Myself, our Deputy Chief of Staff and our Director of Community <br /> Engagement all have different items in their portfolio and we all work with different department <br /> heads, and so this person would help bring those synergies together when we're working on those <br /> projects with the different departments,mostly between myself and the Deputy Chief of Staff. <br /> Committeemember Regina Williams-Preston and Councilmember Sharon McBride arrived at 5:09 <br /> p.m. <br /> EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT <br /> 455 County-City Building 1227 W Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 46601 I p 574.235.92211f 574.235.9173 I I L)574.235.5567 j www.southbendi n.gov <br /> 2 <br />