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(---- <br /> co:TH g� <br /> 'fid <br /> r 1 <br /> W PEP E^AC��`1 <br /> �`4 �� <br /> z,x��► x <br /> �'...m8fi..�.s''°wi. <br /> OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK <br /> DAWN M.JONES, CITY CLERK <br /> PERSONNEL & FINANCE AUGUST 21, 2019 5:30 P.M. <br /> Committee Members Present: Karen White, Jo M. Broden, John Voorde <br /> Committee Members Absent: Regina Williams-Preston <br /> Other Council Present: Jake Teshka, Tim Scott, Gavin Ferlic, Sharon L. McBride <br /> Other Council Absent: Oliver Davis <br /> Others Present: Bob Palmer, Dawn Jones <br /> Presenters: Dan Parker, Steve Cox <br /> Agenda: Fire Department <br /> EMS <br /> Committee Chair Karen White called to order the Personnel and Finance Committee meeting at <br /> 5:35 p.m. She introduced members of the Committee and proceeded to give the floor to the <br /> presenters. <br /> I would like to go ahead and call the Personnel and Finance Committee to order. We do have a <br /> quorum, and so tonight we will be hearing from the Fire Department and EMS. This is our fourth <br /> (4th)budget hearing. Mr. Parker, do you plan to make general comments? And then we go directly <br /> to Chief Cox. <br /> Dan Parker, City Controller offices on the twelfth (12th) floor of this building, stated, Tonight, we <br /> have the Fire Department and EMS for the budget hearing. Before I invite Chief Cox up to speak <br /> to the Fire Department and their budget for 2020, I just want to highlight something that we will <br /> get into. There is an accounting change that we are proposing for the Fire Department in 2020,and <br /> I kind of wanted to walk Council through that. <br /> He continued, In previous years, the EMS side of the Fire Department was accounted for in a <br /> separate EMS Fund, both a EMS Operation Fund and an EMS Capital Fund. In 2020, we are <br /> proposing that the EMS operations actually be pulled back into the General Fund, which is the <br /> fund that accounts for the rest of the Fire Department operations. There's a couple different reasons <br /> for this. The primary reason is that it's more reflective of the actual operations of the Fire <br /> Department. The Fire Department does not run a Fire Department and an EMS department, there <br /> is one(1)Fire Department that responds to both fire and EMS calls. So just in terms of accounting <br /> reflecting the operation, we believe it makes sense just to pull it all into the General Fund. There <br /> INTEGRITY' SERVICE' ACCESSIBILITY <br /> JENNIFER M.COFFMAN BLANCA L.TIR,uwo GRAHAM D.SPARKS <br /> CHIEF DEPUTY/DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS DEPUTY/DIRECTOR OF POLICY ORDINANCE VIOLAI ION CLERK <br /> EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT <br /> 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Blvd.I South Bend,Indiana 46601 I p 574.235.9221 I f 574.235.91731 www.southbendin.gov <br />