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•CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK moved that to salaries and wages this year. So, it is the same stipend it was before but that is just the movement from professional services to salaries and wages. He went on, You'll see that professional services did not go down in a corresponding amount and that is because we have increased that line-item. That primarily has to do with two (2)things. One (1), we are currently doing this Climate Action Plan and it's going to have five (5) strategies we are going to roll out to the Council for immediate implementation. You'll see that before the end of this year. This fall you will see that. We are budgeting for $40,000 for two (2) strategies for next year. So, that is $80,000 in that professional services line-item and that will be to implement whatever comes out of that Climate Action Plan. In addition to that, part of our requirements as being a part of the Global Covenant was not only doing the Green House Gas Emission inventory to find ways to reduce it, but also to do the vulnerability assessment to look at those risks that Climate Change will bring to the City. We have$70,000 in there to do a vulnerability assessment. So, those two (2) add to $150,000 and they are a large reason that the professional services line- item did not decrease more than you would have expected with the moves. Otherwise,we are fairly flat. Inter-fund allocations did go down in this significantly by the amount of$20,000. I think I've covered all the highlights. Again, one (1) personnel change is moving the Operations Manager salary from $40,800 to $46,000. Any questions on Sustainability? Committee Chair White stated, I am going to ask Council Members to hold your questions so that we can get through the rest of the presentation. I also want to ensure that we do have some time left to allow members of the public to ask questions. This is a lot of information and we thought of having Public Works by themselves so that we would cover it all. Again, this is excellent information, but I want to make sure we have some time where we may have to bring you back, especially getting to the special initiatives. I ask the Council Members to put your questions in writing and share them with the City Clerk's Office, each Council Member, and Director Horvath. The Public Works budget is really comprehensive and really touches every part of our City. If you could continue with Streets, that would be great. Mr. Horvath replied, I will and if I'm going too fast, let me know and I will slow down. I'll now cover streets and sewers which are of the MVH Fund,the MVH restricted Fund,the Sewer Repair Insurance Fund and the Project ReLeaf Fund. Mr. Horvath then introduced in attendance the Director and Manger for Streets and Sewers. He continued,We've got some new leadership in the department. In addition, Traffic and Lighting, we are currently hiring for a new director there, as well. That position is vacant right now. The goals for next year include paving twenty (20) lane miles with our own forces and about forty-one(41)total lane miles. I will go through those in more detail later. We look to maintain the current level of the Curb and Sidewalk Program of 2019. That is enhanced from 2018 and I understand it is not as much as you were hoping to see but it is an increased level from years past if you go back the last number of years. In addition, one(1) of our goals is to continue doing a lot more pavement maintenance type activities to make sure we are trying to get as long a life as possible out of our pavements. So, we're going to do about fifty(50) lane miles of crack sealing next year. Then we also want to work to implement CityWorks in our Streets division, so we have a more robust asset management program in Streets. He continued,On the Streets side, you'll see that the charges for services have gone down slightly. That revenue decrease is due to a decrease in gas tax. Those numbers from the State are estimates of what we will receive. We have an increase on transfers in to help support the operations of the MVH Fund. Last year, because we had a fund balance in there in excess of the reserve EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 16