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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK ($5)per month for residential. So the ERU equivalent,nationally,is five dollars ($5)per month as opposed to our two dollars ($2)per month. He went on, You've seen this as these are the existing needs we have. It is about $2.9 million of immediate needs. This (referencing a slide in the presentation) is the proposed budget that was passed for 2019 which includes $1.2 million of expenses. This at that time, we were looking to implement this starting January 1, 2019 but, again,because of the billing issues,we think it makes a lot more sense to start June 1, 2019. Plus that would give everyone a little bit of time for the fee starting up. So this ordinance, the way it is written today, contemplates a start date of June 1St, 2019. So we revised our budget so the expenses would be $600,000 and not $1.2 million. And there were a couple of things that we felt were important to move forward with that were in the LFA study. If you recall, some of the flood inundation mappers and some backflow gates that we want to get on some of those storm lines because of the last major flood event we had. Those things,we took out of this and put them into the Waste Water budget so we can move those forward a little quicker and not lose those things as we had to revise this budget. That is about$100,000 of flood mitigation money that we've moved out and into the Waste Water Fund.But our new budget, then, would be$600,000 for 2019 because, starting June 1, 2019, we will be generating less cash. These (referencing a slide in the presentation) are just some projects I will run through. He continued, As you know, we are getting to the end of the Downspout Disconnection Program. We need to really start looking at the commercial and industrial folks who are left and try to figure out how we can get them off. They have until the end of 2020 to be off the system according to the current ordinance. Draining improvements, I think you saw this list before in the previous presentation. This is just our top ten(10) list that we have right now with mostly smaller drainage projects as it is everything from small storm sewer, dry wells, some catch basins or inlets, and stream stabilization projects. Here is the list(referencing a slide in the presentation). As part of our storm separations, we had $400,000 in there and we've moved that down to $280,000 so we can move forward with Western Avenue. As you may recall, Western Avenue Phase Three (3) is moving forward with TIF dollars but the storm component is not funded. It doesn't make sense for us to rip up the entire road up, get in there and do everything and not separate the sewers at this time, so we would we looking to do that. Then this (referencing a slide in the presentation) you can see where the bank has failed. We've got a layer grant here but we need$40,000 to match that grant. He went on, And then this (referencing a slide in the presentation) is the 2020 list which includes a lot of stuff that you've seen before. There will be work on the dam, the East River, a lot of drainage projects, additional bank stabilization on public properties and other things. Here (referencing a slide in the presentation) are the eighty-six (86) communities in Indiana with storm water fees. You can see almost every city and town with a population over 25,000,in Indiana,has a fee with the exception of South Bend. Here (referencing a slide in the presentation) is the same breakdown but you can see what they are charging per month. This is the residential equivalent and is the ERU piece. So we are proposing two dollars ($2). Our statewide average is five dollars and thirty-six cents ($5.36) and that is really close to the national average of five($5)dollars. This (referencing a slide in the presentation) is the annual estimate. This is not starting June 1, 2019. This is an estimate of a January 1 start date. You can see what the two dollars($2) and five dollars ($5) generates and it is a little over$1 million per year for storm water. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION 1 INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574 235 9221 f574.235.9173 11D574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 3