03-04-19 Personnel and Finance (Tax Caps/Impact)

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committeemember Broden followed up, I thought a different lens could also be instructive when you look at analyzing healthcare related to that. Then when you say look to right size our staffing level for the services we deliver, that's really driven by internal priorities and decisions. We really can't look elsewhere for best practices, but, we can, probably, whether or not we are being as efficient and effective with our health care metrics. Mr. Parker answered, I'll follow up on the metrics to health care. I think we are in the ballpark when it comes to this. I will get that information for you. I will say to your point, it's very difficult to see those stats in a chart because different cities offer different services, so it depends on what services the cities offer. Councilmember Broden stated, My last thing is in lieu of hiring individuals for the soft freeze. You spoke about task reallocation, but internships would be a component of that correct? If you increase those? You mention volunteers, but I thought internships are really significant because you often do get the talent without the outlay. I am also thinking consultants,more of a short-term skill benefit versus a long-term investment in the baggage that we all bring to salary and benefits. The switch off-on, is this a job that a consultant should do or could do? Or we don't need long- term benefits from, we just time specific skills to plug in? I am wondering about the question of cross-training. For your part-time numbers in a different season, I think VPA specifically on that. Overall, I am very thankful for this presentation but always from my background are the grant and sponsorship opportunities. Where is the room for grant writing? Who is mining those possible potential projects on a departmental level that could and should be shopping around for grants. I know what they do at universities. You have one (1) person that drives that process and pulls that information and prospect dollars out there,but I don't think we have that currently. Mr. Parker answered, That's a great conversation and I think you are right to a certain extent that it is largely up to individual departments to purse their own grants. We do have a grant administrator in the City, his position currently is reporting and sort of after-year compliance with the terms of the grant. Committee Chair White stated, I am going to try to move this quickly, to give the public opportunity to speak and come back to Council. Commiteemember Williams-Preston stated, I just wanted to discuss some of things that I think are very important I want your to keep on your mind. The importance of ensuring the accuracy of our property tax assessments. Creative revenue generation, I'd like to look at having a discussion of having more community members.There are lots of ideas and talents not just in our neighborhoods about what we could do to decrease cost or rescue revenue, but also our university partners. I do appreciate the focus on the difference between equal allocation versus equitable allocation of dollars. We are making decisions on investments moving forward because we finally turned our attention to neighborhoods and investing in places we haven't invested in in decades. I don't want to see a slow down in that. We need to think about public-private partnerships. All of those things really get at one (1) of our key goals around equity. Councilmember Teshka stated, Mr. Parker, it seems like from this presentation, someone could easily think you have been in this position for over ten(10) years.Thank you for the work that you have put into this. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 l i L)574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 17