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<br /> requirements, we used some of that fund balance last year and budgeted about $3.8 million of
<br /> expenses over the amount of revenue.This year to offset some of that,we've got about$3.4 million
<br /> of COIT going into the MVH Fund, and about$740,000 EDIT going into the MVH Fund. So, you
<br /> can see(referencing the presentation) salaries and wages, again, are pretty flat. No increases other
<br /> than the two percent (2%) or one percent (1%), depending on the employment status. The only
<br /> other thing I'll point out is in supplies, you'll see that went down significantly. In all fairness, you
<br /> asked to see more paving,we are going to do forty-one(41)lane miles which includes money that
<br /> we get for Community Crossings if we get the grant. If we don't get the grant, that means we will
<br /> do thirty-three(33)lane miles with the funds we have set for road paving. Compared to 2019, that
<br /> is about$550,000 less than the 2019 original budget. Then we also did an additional appropriation
<br /> in 2019,just recently,of an additional$500,000. So,it's about$1 million less in paving than you'll
<br /> see in 2019. Having said that, you'll also see that one (1) of the offsets we have is we have a
<br /> number of federal projects that Kara went over, such as Bendix and Olive, that are considerable
<br /> projects that will be done in 2020. I'll also point out that you'll see a significant decrease on
<br /> transfers out. That $2.5 million was in this year's budget for 2019 for Bendix. We've put that in
<br /> MVH and then transferred it out. So,you don't see that money in there any longer,so it went down
<br /> significantly.
<br /> He went on, So, Curbs and Sidewalks, again, the same Council levels as before. Our
<br /> reimbursement program will have the same amount of money in it. We did add two (2)tiers to the
<br /> reimbursement program as a pilot. We will be reviewing that program in 2020 to see how well that
<br /> went but we added the non-residential tier. So, there was a rate that was a lower rate of
<br /> reimbursement for commercial properties or non-residential properties. Then we also selected two
<br /> (2) target areas with low-income households and we doubled the reimbursement amount in those
<br /> two (2) target areas. So, we will be reviewing that to see if we are going to continue having that
<br /> program in 2020. We do not have any additional safe route to schools funding in 2020 which has
<br /> been a huge blessing for us. Not that we don't have it in 2020 but that we've gotten it so much in
<br /> previous years.We've been very successful at getting grants for safe routes to schools.That money
<br /> is much harder to come by. We do have one(1)more grant for the area around Muessel but that is
<br /> programmed in 2024. So, that is the next time we will see safe routes to school dollars in South
<br /> Bend, unless something changes. To be clear, Olive Street's local share is about $2 million and
<br /> that is not in this budget. That is something we are going to have to figure out. And then again, we
<br /> want to continue our investment in the road preservation program.
<br /> He continued, I'll move on to Utilities. Again, this is our combined water and waste water utility.
<br /> I'm going to break those down to show you the water division aggregated, and the waste water
<br /> division aggregated. So, those funds are all of our water works operations, capital, customer
<br /> service, deposits, bond reserve, debt service and the reserve for the operations and maintenance
<br /> funds.Those are pretty much the same on both the water and sewer side with the addition of having
<br /> the storm sewer fund, Fund #667 as well. I won't go through all this utility stuff and I'll skip
<br /> through these (referencing the presentation) quickly. Goals, again, we are working on our capital
<br /> asset plan and hopefully do better long-term planning for the utilities. Again, we are going to try
<br /> and get more full-scale implementation of CityWorks for asset management and planning. We will
<br /> be doing a risk and resiliency program as well in water works. That is a requirement of the 2018
<br /> Water Infrastructure Act. That is a federal requirement which is to be done in 2020. Then a key
<br /> performance indicator, we had one hundred percent(100%) compliance with our natural pollutant
<br /> discharge elimination system permit, one hundred percent (100%) compliance of safe drinking
<br /> water, zero (0) dry-weather overflows, and I'll get to the budget here.
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