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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Dan Parker,City Controller for the City of South Bend,with offices on the 12th floor of the County- City building stated, So, we're actually going to do this in groups, blocks of bills. The first (1st) block is for 2019, and then the second(211d)block is for 2020. So, before we get to 2020, focusing on 2019, this is our normal quarterly budget transfers and additional appropriation requests. So, Bill No. 31-19 is budget transfers. So, everything in this bill does not raise or lower the amount of the appropriation. It just transfers it from one cost category to another. Committee Chair Karen White made a motion to hear Bill No. 31-19, Bill No. 32-19 and Bill No. 33-19 together. The motion was seconded by Committeemember John Voorde and was carried with a voice vote of three(3) ayes. Bill No. 31-19- September 2019 Transfer Ordinance Bill No. 32-19- September 2019 Appropriation Ordinance- Enterprise Funds Bill No. 33-19- September 2019 Appropriation Ordinance- Civil City Funds Mr. Parker stated, So,Bill No. 31-19 is our transfer ordinance. It doesn't raise or lower the amount of appropriation overall. Bill No. 32-19 is an additional appropriation ordinance for our Enterprise Funds, and this is probably the easiest bill that I've ever presented to you because there's only one (1) additional appropriation request, and it's because we've had more interest earnings than we expected. So, we want to transfer that out into a different fund. Bill No. 33-19 is our additional appropriation and Trust for Civil City Funds. So, this is the same as we just talked about except on the Civil City side. That is separated out into our normal categories of supported by New Revenue, Capital Projects and Administrative Items. So, everything under the Supported by New Revenue category has revenue that was not contemplated in the budget to back it up. The Capital Projects, there's two (2) capital project requests on there and those are related to Howard Park. Those were in the original budget plan for Howard Park. They were just never formally appropriated. So, this is not an over run on the Howard Park plan. It is just formally appropriating the final amount of money for Howard Park. Then under the Administrative Items, the largest set of appropriations requests on there relate to Central Services.That is entirely due to an accounting change and the way that we are accounting for the expenses that Central Services has. It used to be that as Central Services was reimbursed from the departments,that they worked on vehicles for their expenses were reduced. Per some instruction from GASB, we are changing that. GASB (Government Accounting Standards Board) being the entity that oversees governmental accounting policies so that it will be recognized now as revenue in the Central Services Fund. So, we'll maintain the expenses in there as well. So, again, this is not an increase in overall expense, it's just a change in the way that we're accounting for it. I'm happy to answer any questions on any of those three(3)bills. Committee Chair Karen White opened the floor to any Committee or Councilmembers wishing to ask questions or to make comments. Seeing none, Committee Chair Karen White turned to the public for anyone wishing to speak either in favor of or in opposition of Bill No. 31-19. Seeing none, Committeemember Jo M. Broden made a motion to send Bill No. 31-19 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. The motion was seconded by Committee Vice Chair, John Voorde, and carried with a voice vote of three (3) ayes. 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 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 2