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•CITYOFSOUTHBEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK street and a ten (10) is a brand-new street. So, when we pick these annual paving lists, our City crews, we look at ratings between two (2) and five (5). Typically, we will do eighteen (18) to nineteen (19) miles of paving by City crews and, in addition to that, we get paving grants with federal funds and other things. So, you will see the Community Crossings is a grant we received from the State. There is some paving happening as part of that. There are federal funds going into a couple of other projects that Kara will talk about. So,there are additional paving projects beyond the annual list. He went on, In addition to paving, we really ramped up our efforts to do crack sealing which is a preventative maintenance effort to make sure we elongate the life of our streets. This is something that, admittedly, we haven't been doing really well internally. We started this process really a few years ago due to some cuts in staff. Last year we added three (3)to four(4)positions for our curb and sidewalk program. Our goal was to be sure that crew was doing paving and crack sealing. At certain times of the year they do snow plowing in the winter, leaf pick up when appropriate. So, that crew has allowed us to do crack sealing. Our goal is to do forty(40) lane miles a year and we are now underway at about eleven (11) lane miles already this year. This is to make sure that the number of streets we have to pave each year is somewhat reduced because we are better maintaining our streets. The spring ReLeaf Program kicked off this year with anything left over from last fall we completed. We have a call-in process and during early April we had amnesty. So, in addition to the call-ins, we also offer yard waste amnesty where residents can put out as much yard waste as possible and they were able to call in and get those picked up. That is yet another service to residents. He continued, Wayfinding has been another project you may have heard a little bit about. We received a grant from Visit South Bend to start the planning of this project last year. We've been working on putting the designs together. This is a concept design for the wayfinding system which will have a range of signs. Everything from directing visitors, first (1st) time visitor to frequent visitors, from key entrances and key destinations in the City. So, you'll see the larger signs which may not be as ornamental on the toll road entrances or the key entrances into the City. Then as you get closer to districts, you'll see signs like this (referencing a slide in the presentation) which are a little bit more detailed to direct visitors to destinations.The first(1St)phase of this implementation will occur this summer. We are getting another grant from Visit South Bend to help with the implementation. Committee Chair Voorde asked, Are those lighted signs? Mr. Kain replied, These are not. These are just regular signs. We have some that will be lit. Kara Boyles, City Engineer for the City of South Bend with offices located on the 13th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Alright, I have about thirty (30) exciting slides. There are about thirty(30) projects in the first (1St) five (5) slides. So, the way I set this up started with explaining some of the major projects and updating you all with what is going on in 2019. There is a lot happening. This slide (referencing the presentation) gives an overview of all the projects we are involved with related to TIF investment. For instance,the Main and Jefferson Earthwork Retention Project that began just recently. We are doing some preliminary work there now with a future five (5) story building. The Drewry's debris clean up with take place this summer. We are working on doing a little more analysis on the classification regarding the waste that is there. We are getting ready to open bids on that at the end of May. When we do these projects,we work with Community EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 3