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•CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Mr. Horvath replied, Well, it's not ours. It is GreenTech's. We negotiated a deal with them. We had gotten out of that actually because the costs got too high and we ended up doing a cost-benefit analysis and it's cheaper to go to the landfill. But,they were eager to get us back and they reduced their price quite a bit. So, we did a contract with them. We've been doing that for two (2) years. It started in 2018. It is located on Ewing Street. So, it saves quite a bit from driving to the landfill. We have a location right in town to drop at. Then they take larger trucks to the landfill. He continued, Moving onto Sustainability, you've had a lot of presentations already. A lot of that is something that is huge on the local but also national level. It is climate change and I appreciate the Council's efforts in working with the Administration in doing the resolution on climate change and supporting a Climate Action Plan. We are trying to create a culture in our community and in our workforce that treats sustainability as business as usual. We need to understand that this is just a part of how we do business. We try to make sure our employees, our businesses and our community members are aware of the current environmental issues and the impacts that those have on our quality of life. We want to give them tools to make our sustainability group a catalyst to help move projects forward that are important to those types of operations. He went on,We've got three(3) full-time people in our Office of Sustainability. Mr. Horvath then introduced those three (3) employees. He continued, In addition, we have about thirty (30) AmeriCorps members right now that work mostly on providing energy efficiencies in low-income homes. There are also a number of other activities and that program is called the South Bend GreenCorps Program. Our goals for the year 2020 include, again, creating a sustainable culture which is that all of our employees are aware, and they care, and it becomes business as usual. We also want to incorporate sustainability into the overall City fabric and then, of course, preparing for climate change and the impacts of climate change in the community, which is beyond just finding ways to reduce our green house gas emissions but also looking at what risks that presents to us long-term and finding out what type of vulnerabilities we have. He continued, Here is our budget overview (referencing a slide in the presentation). You can see on the revenue side, it looks a little odd. That is because this does not include the General Fund allocation piece. So, what you'll see here is the charges for service, that went up about $30,000 to $180,000. That is our AmeriCorps grant. We are receiving a larger grant this year than we did the first (1St) year. The transfers in went down from $120,000 to $70,00 and that was from other departments. So, that was their share. The utilities had a share of that program because we were doing some water efficiency stuff in the homes. So, that component of the share has gone down $50,000. The total revenue is pretty similar to what it was last year. The ask on the General Fund is going to be about $120,000 more than it was last year. You can see that broken down in the expenses (referencing a slide in the presentation). I want to point out that the salaries and wages also look a little odd. Again,there are no new additional staff. This is one(1)area and we've asked for three (3) changes in personnel in our two hundred and sixty-seven (267) positions. One (1) of them are on our Operations Manager of Sustainability from $40,800 to $46,000. Quite honestly, we had trouble finding somebody to fill that role as it is currently vacant. We are trying to get somebody that has got a building background so they already understand how to do some energy efficiency work and can train our AmeriCorps members. We've had a real difficult time with this current economy with the building trades doing so well, finding somebody that can meet that need. That went up about$5,000 and you can see this is a much larger increase than that. What happened was the AmeriCorps member stipends that are paid was in professional services last year. We 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 15