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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK went to the people. We're trying to do this as efficiently as possible, making sure that the money stays where it should. He continued, With that, we've partnered with Real Services who's already doing an energy assistance program, they're already doing enrollment and qualification, establishing qualification below income. We're going to have help with Real Services as part of the program so that some of those, so we won't have the overhead costs that would normally go into a program such as this. To fund this program, it'll take the Council agreeing to increase the average waste water repairs monthly bill by$1.75. That$1.75,this is all cost of service-based, then will be utilized and will be put in a special fund and will be utilized to help offset eligible program participants that are low income customers. He went on, We have a three (3) tiered program and the way that it is currently, Real Services currently looks at this program and they use sixty percent (60%) of the State of Indiana median household income. That's dependent on household size and if you fall within one hundred(100%) of that, you will see a net ten-dollar($10) deduction on your waste water bill. Just for purposes of understanding, they're going to be charged $1.75 as well. Everyone will on their bill. And then they will have an eleven dollar and seventy-five cent ($11.75) deduction, so net off ten dollars ($10). If you are seventy-five percent(75%) of that sixty percent (60%) MHI, then you will have a fourteen dollar ($14) deduction per month. If you're fifty percent (50%) you'll have a nineteen dollar($19) per month deduction on your waste water bill. I'm really excited about this program. I look forward to bringing it to Council. We will have the ordinance ready for first(1st)reading on October 14th. We anticipate that we would be rolling this out summer of 2020 after we have our new billing software up and running and time for Real Services to put the program in place. He went on,The next initiative is the Long-Term Control Plan. Councilmember Broden mentioned that we did just recently update you on this. I don't think I need to update you any further other than we've got ongoing negotiations and those negotiations are going well right now and we're still hopeful that we'll have something by the end of this year. We have included in our 2020 budget some of the costs of that program. Primarily in regard to some waste water treatment plan upgrades that we're looking at, that would need to be done even if we didn't do the Long Term Control Plan by way of having that Consent Decree. It's work that we know the City's going to need to do anyway. That's what we put in the budget for 2020 and the Long-Term Control Plan. He continued, The next one (1) is the Westside Quiet Zone. Again, we have had updates on this. • Just to let you know where we are. The first(1st) component of this was Canadian National Grand Trunk Western, or I'm sorry, the Norfolk Southern piece, which was the majority of the trains. That has been completed. We were getting complaints early on that they were still blowing whistles. I think that's gotten better. We did have somebody from FRA come out, one (1) of the grade crossing inspectors, and he agreed that he would fine Norfolk Southern if they didn't stop blowing their horns and had warned them and I think after that we were able to get some compliance.There are still sets of tracks that do not have the quiet zone in place.Canadian National Grand Trunk Western, we're currently working on. There are still a couple supplemental safety measures that we need to put in place and some issues with constant warning we need to deal with. That is going to be still fall this year. We plan on implementing that, so we'll have that piece and quiet again. Then the final piece is the NICTD piece which actually is going to be about a year away because that's an alternative safety measure and because we're looking to have a waiver, those reviews typically take about a year with the FRA. We'll get that in as quickly as we can and EXCELLENCE j ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION j 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 23