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City of South Bend Common Council Budget 2019

​Fund 101-0301

These are our observations about the South Bend Common Council Budget. For accuracy the dollar amounts are taken directly from information provided by the City of South Bend, Indiana. (Pages 89-90 for 2018 and 7 for 2019.)
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Team Questions/Notes:
* What is the $54,388 Interfund Allocation for?  
* What are the "Other Services & Charges" of  $5,800 for?
* Does the PR Intern make $40K, which is as much as 2 Council people? How is taking and posting some meeting photos on social media worth $40K?    101-0301-411.10-03
* "Legislative Research Assistant" shows up twice on the printout. Once for $40K and then again under "Legal Services" for $41,616.   101-0301-411.31-01
Perhaps if these positions were combined the Council could retain the professional services of a Municipal Budget Analyst to help them bring the budget back into balance since it is showing a $62M DEFICIT in 2017 and a $63M DEFICIT in 2018 and Cash Reserves are down by $87M (Page 51 of the 2018 Adopted Budget)
* What are the "Other professional Services" for?   101-0301-411.31-06
* What are the "Additional Legal Services" of $55K for?  101-0301-411.31-07
* Why is the IT Allocation $53,497?  101-0301-411.31-76
* "Promotional" has almost tripled since 2016 and is now $9K. What is included for this amount?  101-0301-411.33-03
* NOTE:  In 2017 the Budget was $471,078 and it is now $650,250 which is a $179,172 increase in two years.

It is also available in PDF form for download here: ​
City of South Bend Common Council Budget 2018 PDF
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NOTES:  
This still shows Randy Kelly and Dr. Dave Varner instead of Sharon McBride and Jacob Teshka. This year the Council added an additional expense of around $40K for a PR person to follow them around to post their activites on social media.
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