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CITY OFSOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Councilmember Teshka followed up, Okay, I just wanted to be clear on that and then just for the record and I've said this before when we talked about the Police Department budget, but, and I know we can't do anything about it this year, but hopefully for anybody who's around next year, hopefully I will be as well and participating in the negotiations, but I'd just like to point out that the cap on this public safety initiatives director is within spitting distance of our current Police Chief and Fire Chief salary, so I'd like just see that during next year when we open negotiations, take a real hard look at those chiefs' salary reflecting the value that our community puts on public safety. That's all, thank you. Councilmember Dr. Oliver Davis stated, Good evening, Mayor. When you look at the position for the director of our public safety that you're looking at here, other cities like Fort Wayne have had them. How do you think that those cities who have a position like that,how does that position help to decrease the shootings, to build diversity and promote trust within their cities that they have? When you looked at getting that kind of, or what city or what cities did you base this kind of position on? Mayor Buttigieg stated, So,unlike the director of public safety position that we've proposed earlier, this is not one (1) that is really modeled on a template of an existing city because it is more connected to the programmatic balance that we think the Mayor's Office needs to be guiding. I suppose the best analogy would be the many Mayor's Offices I know that would have a staff member who specializes in these things relative to those that might not as we have not exactly in recent years. Another way to think of it would be if you look at any major initiative that are among those we would want to emulate that other cities have taken on from some of the things in Tucson, that Faith in Indiana has mentioned to the different cities that might've done something along the lines of Peacemakers or even doing what we do now with the national network on something like GVI. It always has a sponsor somewhere in the organization, in the Administration, and the one (1) thing that you will see in common is that they tend to succeed when there's a sponsorship that is either aligned with or housed in the Mayor's Office or a senior executive function. You know, some cities, there'd be a deputy mayor for public safety, we're not really going down that route, whether it's that or something like we're proposing that seems to be associated with most successful implementations. Councilmember Dr. Davis followed up, So if there is a public safety crisis in a city, shootings, major fire or whatever that it is impacted, found the individual or whatever things that we have gone through in the past. Would it be more of the Mayor speaking out for this, or do you think that this would be a role where the person who is public safety would be the one(1)that will speak out first(1st) and be guiding those kinds of meetings with the Chief of Police and all of that? Will that person be guided or would the Mayor be guided who would be guiding anytime if this is really enacted, who takes over in the times of need? Mayor Buttigieg replied, If it were my office, I would envision the Mayor remaining the public voice and providing the public leadership. I would envision this position being, for example, at that moment in the meeting where you have the key people in the room including external players and somebody says, who's going to take this for action and follow up or have the meetings in between the meetings that the Mayor is present for, that it would be more obvious how to answer that question with this position established. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend.Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 10