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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Clerk Jones replied, Right, that's a good idea. The Clerk's Office has that responsibility to make sure that they have as much information as possible so they can be as successful as possible. Councilmember Jake Teshka asked, On the dictation piece of it, the additional $12,000, that's a software, correct? Clerk Jones replied, Well, it's a software. It's an additional $2000 because it is a software that we use for particularly long meetings. Councilmember Teshka replied, Sure. Clerk Jones stated, The IT Department says they have more accurate programs than even what we're using now. What we're using now is REV and it's very accurate,but we are looking for even more accurate because we want to cut down on the time that everybody has to do minutes, particularly our Administrative Assistant and we want to cut that down. Councilmember Teshka stated, Sure. Thank you. Committee Chair White stated, Thank you for your presentation. The next presentation will be from Mayor Pete Buttigieg and the Mayor's Office. Mayor's Office Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of the City of South Bend with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Good afternoon. Thanks for the opportunity to be here. I know that my invitation is specific to the Mayor's Office, but I also just want to speak to all the work that's been going on and acknowledge and thank the Council for the work that's going on to make sure that we're getting as much community input and good deliberation as possible in the process, and I'm very thankful for all the hard work going into this. We've been talking for a good three (3) years now about what we do when we get to the 2020 budget,making sure we're being responsive to the fiscal constraints that are coming our way and, at the same time now,we're making sure that as we do that we're also lifting up the things that are so important in the community, including heightened interest and sensitivity on supporting neighborhoods that need support, and on making sure that we're setting ourselves up for success on public safety. I think we're on track to deliver something that we can be proud of, and I just want to thank everybody who's been part of the process to date. So, having said that, let me specifically go over the major highlights and the new news when it comes to what we're putting forward for the budget so that the next Mayor will be off to a great start. He continued, What you'll see in the overall scheme of things is a relatively modest expense increase, five percent (5%), but I want to get into some of the details of that because there's a bigger increase than you might think in what we're trying to do staff-wise. It is offset by some improvements just based on accounting through allocation, so I'll make sure I'm being as transparent about that as possible. There's one (1) position where we contemplate a salary cap increase and that is the Chief of Staff to the Mayor. He went on,You will recall that when this Administration first(1st) came in, in 2012, we went for a mid-year appropriation in order to adjust salaries to help us with recruiting and retaining the right EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION j INCLUSION j EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 5