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calling to order the AUGUST
27th for business. The
neighborhood services. My name
is Abby Brands and the
director for the Department of
Business Neighborhood
Services. If my board members
would like to introduce
themselves. Courtney, our
road. Camille bunt. Kate or
pool. With consent. I would
like to move the the budget
presentation after the action
items just so currently can
get those. Going done first
great. Second sent Saint
Center it. All right. So
moving on first item, we have
the minutes from the JULY 23rd
meeting. Are there any
questions about these minutes
or there a motion to approve
moved. Is there a second?
Those in favor signify by
saying Aye, JULY 23rd minutes.
a lot of papers today. And
since we're moving forward
with the action items, first.
MISS Curly. It's a Seton, 0,
30.
For resolution. Number 2026.
See 10, 0, 30 staff recommends
board authorize director, a
place leads up on the
properties listed exhibit a
from pay. It the mowing and
costs incurred by the
department. And a check I-75
their advice. Code. The nsa's
responsible for the inspection
abatement and enforcement
environmental public
nuisances. When a property
owner does not correct
violation. The city of was the
contractor the property and
that the city's abatement
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saline up on the property.
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represents 379 cases. With a
total 136,870 $30. The cases
out me 30 days past due as of
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there any questions during the
highways and Grassley Cincy 0
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resolution. Number 2, 0, 2, 6
10 Dash, 0, 3, 0, Is there a
second second? All right. All
those in favor signify by
saying Aye, aye. 2.31
resolution, number 26 to 10 is
your 3. Why staff recommends
board authorize the director
to replace things up on the
properties listed exhibit a
paid trash debris. Cleanup.
Innovation costs incurred by
the department and secretary
one of kind us is responsible
for the inspection abatement,
enforce net of environmental
policies to. One property
owner not correct the
violation the city and was
contractor pay $0.50 and then
at the cities of a unit coster
on pay the city, some place a
on the property. This
certifications represents 34
trash violation cases. Well,
that's $16,487.10 seconds.
Fact, out seeing these 30 days
past due as of AUGUST, 27th
2026. Questions for Carly. A
motion for statins. Are 31.
All those in favor signify by
saying Aye aye.
Usually when we present our
budget presentation to you
guys, it's like 2 days after
we've got to council. So it's
all really fresh. But now
we're week behind and we've
been dealing with the floods.
This is going to be. It'll
it'll be a Is usually we still
have like the endorphins of We
It's
got off this is our 27 budget
presentation presenting today,
our department must present
annual budget to our board.
This not the city of voting
matter, but it is for us to if
you general understanding of
what we presented to council,
what they're currently
deliberating and then if there
are suggestions you want to
make to council things like
Certainly when you're pregnant
just with us, we can have
those conversations as well.
All right. So just a quick
breakdown. You guys already
know this. But as our
divisions, construction of
business services overseas, a
lot of our permitting
functions, special events,
weights and measures licensing
different kinds of inspections
that are associated with those
things up. A land use services
is predominantly Campos,
owning unsafe building side of
the house. You can various
things well up to that
division and the
administration and finance,
which even overseas kind of
the internal working of our
department offend last year
introduced programming
budgets. The idea being on set
of just kind of ancillary
characters and sections we now
are aligning all of our
expenses, too programs. And so
you can see that in second
section. There. Most of the
things that you would assume
we have labeled as a program
to highways and grass program
or demolition program. Things
like that. As you can see,
there are a lot of overlap of
program coats between the
different divisions, right?
Like we MAY issue a zoning it
on one side, but we are doing
zoning inspections on the
other side to this going to be
overlap in those areas. One
thing I really enjoy about
this is I think is a good
example of special events,
right? There's several
different departments between
dpw and impd and I d and U.S.
All dealing with special
events. And so the controller
being able to just pull the
special that code and see at
any given time how much the
city is spending on that one
program. That's wonderful. We
can actually see like holistic
spending across the
enterprise. All So I provided
this last year. It was mostly
it was just the nsa and the
health department just to kind
of help define the lines.
Between us because they do get
confusing from time to time.
We like to say, you health
department is occupied where
they can. But we also
obviously do some forsman of a
occupied properties were
talking about zoning and
things like that. They have
their own have high weeds and
grass program. And so we might
overlap in those areas this
year. I also added emt and dpw
just to kind of expand picture
a little bit more because once
again, there's often confusion
about. Where dmd do versus
asleep when does the counselor
need to send the request to us
versus them? That kind of
thing. So I just think this is
a helpful tool for councils,
but also the board. Anybody
else who's watching kind of
see where those lines I do
want to point Right under
about half way you can see
enforcing local federal flood
regulations. We have been
very, very involved in the
local flood response. The nsa
has been charged with doing
rapid damage assessments,
which is going on in the
community and just exactly as
it sounds rapidly getting
through, seeing what the
damage is, pulling all those
estimates together so we can
send them to fema and that
helps back up disaster relief
request as the city we
completed over 4,000
inspections and about in less
than a week, the press about
30 inspectors just really
incredible. I'm so proud of
the team was just some
incredible public servants on
our team that were eager to
really get out there and talk
to property owners. So just
want to shout that out. All
right. We're looking at
people. One of the great
stories of this year's to talk
about her vacancy rate, evil
will talk about this. When we
get further on a tight budget
fights. But them took a look
at different attrition. Rates
across departments how that's
reflected in our budget. And
so that had looking can see
rain seeing like, well, we've
really come a long as far as
retaining I think there's few
different reasons for that.
Obviously. Think our eu
negotiations couple years ago
really health that right
sizing and getting a letter
for union employees where they
needed to be excuse me. And as
you can see there, we
currently have 10 vacancies
that half and half of the
apartment. There was also a
survey that was done earlier
this year. Enterprise wide and
we scored either better or on
par with the rest of the
enterprise as far as our
department. So how people feel
like they're getting
communicated to the safety in
the workplace. Things like We
scored pretty well, but
there's obviously still room
for improvement we are
conducting a mission and
values exercise with the
department. This is the 10
year anniversary of Dce
becoming bn U.S. And now that
we no longer have acs under
our purview, just seems like a
really good time to get
everybody involved to talk
about what our values as a
department and what Sharon
mission statement. The We re.
For a back. I should say the
Social committee, a lot of
social, kind of fizzled out
during covid and people
working from home that we
brought that back. We had an
ice cream social. They're
planning other events as well.
And it's just been nice to
have an opportunity to get
people back into the same room
together. Even folks on the
same team might just in a car
on the field and getting those
folks back together. Have also
been sending quarterly updates
to the entire department
covering everything in the
department so that way people
know whether it's something
that is that pertains to them
or something that just
pertains to partner, why
they're getting more regular
information from you is the
director. So construction and
business services. These
numbers are are pretty spot on
to where we have been year
over last year. A lot of our
focus was things coming from
the state House 10. 37 made it
so that we could no longer be
more stringent than item,
which meant that we can no
longer a sure drainage permits
under an acre which Matt, we
essentially can no she
drainage permits for
residential projects for the
most part. So obviously there
was a lot of coordination and
legal interpretation that went
into that and it took a lot of
attention last year. 10, 0, 5,
created a new private provider
process that allows. Folks to
apply for in a different
manner and be able to oversee
those permits a different
manner. And that took a lot of
work to coordinate internally
of what does that look like?
But also building entirely new
workflow that had to be live
in JANUARY. So there was a lot
of it development and a lot
reassessing our processes last
year because of what came from
the state house. We fully live
with bookings. That calendar
type link. So now if you get
to e-mail from one of our
permit reviewers who says
here's your notice of review.
And you look at it I have no
idea what this You can click
that link at the bottom of
email and schedule a 30 minute
meeting to go over that with
them. As you can see there,
we've had 460 bookings
appointment scheduled. So
people are using it, which I
love to see the whole idea.
And that is that, you know. We
need to be able to meet people
where they are. So. Says
fantastic. And in trying to
silence everything and that.
Very raw, sorry. And Tony, 26
streamline any which will talk
about the next couple slides
been our biggest initiative in
this area. And we're also
working overhaul our special
of ordinance that hasn't been
touched since the Super Bowl.
We've been meeting with I d
dpw impd everybody. So get
everybody's feelings and edits
and things like about that and
work through that front end of
the year and then 2027. We'll
talk about these couple
things. Interview. He just
lives. So streamlining u i
believe we've talked about
this from a Streamline Indy is
a multi department initiative
between us the Indian dpw to
really look at what
development processes,
especially those that can
overlap and what can we do to
make development easier in
Marion County, whether that's
looking at the actual zoning
ordinance, whether that's just
looking at the way. We submit
permits or the way that we're
interacting with the
community. So we started Presa
middle meetings at beginning
of this year. That is a
meeting that is voluntary
development projects. A member
of the Indy dpw and be in us
is included in that meeting so
that people can get those like
questions, answers immediately
from those individuals and all
those different parties
instead of maybe having to
work through Bns, which was
historically all things kind
of winter directly, but often
in a vacuum, another far
collaborative. And quarterly
updates were doing webinars
regularly with the public to
be able to update them on
streamline Indy. We have new
3rd party contract that this
board is aware of because you
approve them. About a month
ago to him to do too. We have
a new accelerated review
policy that this board is
aware because you approved
late last year we were
planning on introducing a
version 2 of that version. One
has been going pretty well.
And so we wanted to give it a
little bit more time to see
like what do we need to expand
on improved? So we're just
holding on that at this
moment. But the ones which has
been great, we are now doing a
recording process where if you
apply for drainage permit, you
can often for us to record the
documents at the end. So right
now that can cause some delays
and that we give you the
document. You sign it. You
give it to us. We signed it.
We get it back to you. Then
you have to report it and you
have to give us a copy of the
recording. And it's just extra
steps that we can help
facilitate. So that went live
just a couple weeks ago, fee
associated with that just the
standard recording fee, we
don't have anything on top of
that. We just We start a new
satisfaction survey that now
comes with every permit
issuance email. So just
general 3 to 5 questions. How
did you how would you rate
your experience? That kind of
think there hasn't been ton of
great adoption we'll talk
about that a little bit. But
we're moving forward moving
forward with ways to try to
get more feedback from the
community. We've working
through different ways that we
can make sure we're getting
the documents we need before.
We're sending them to our
vendors. Just overall
improving the way that we're
communicating through review
template. And so we're closer
to from the bottom. Those 3
case types existed in our
system. The were not public
facing. And so we found that
people are having to reach out
to staff to say, hey, can you
open my chief infection cases.
That is no longer an issue.
Those public facing now. And
then finally system discovery
that is related to our overall
permitting system will talk
about that. A couple slides.
All right. So moving on to
some of the data reminding.
When we look at drainage
permits, we talk about range
from us. There's been a lot of
consternation folks range from
its take a long time. And so
when we kicked off initiative,
we wanted to really dig into
the data and truly understand
what are the turnaround times
for all the different stages
when it comes to drainage when
it comes to structural
specifically for class one,
which is commercial. You can
see in that top table there.
We have about 140 range from
its in progress. 95 of those
are waiting on the applicant.
That means we have either sent
them an initial review letter
or multiple review letters or
it could be that we've sent
them an approval letter. And
we're just waiting on final
documents with that. Many are
waiting with the applicant at
this time. We move. Now you
can see the 2025 average is
that we have for each of the
different stages, whether it
was a sign. Our initial review
letter, things like that in
2025. That average was 62
working days working to does
not include a weekend or a
holiday the year prior to that
was 113. So we already cut in
half for cargo. Is 45? You can
see we're at 47. And we've had
84%. In that team. That's a
big number. Is a small team.
So it doesn't take much to
that big of a number. But, you
know, we've had people who
graduated so to speak to d-Md
people who found other
positions that we like,
nothing that we were
particularly concerned about.
This all seemed kind natural
attrition and turnover. But I
am incredibly proud of the
team that we've had that much
change. And yet we are still
that close to the target that
we set for this year.
Certainly that was
year-to-date think these
numbers were polled at the end
of JULY. So could be trending
better. And then you can see
in the bullets they're more
than 50% of the cases were
assigned within one business
day. So many feet see that 5
days. That was actually
because of the few outliers.
Not because they were all
struggling to get Moving on to
structural. You can see the
top there. We had an iv j
article that was positive
about the streamlining the
initiative and permits in
general. And so, yes, I am
going to clip that highlight
that that was wonderful to
see, especially, you know,
folks in the community and
builders in the community
speaking positively about the
initiative as well. As you can
see here, we having amazing
numbers when it comes to class
one structural permitting and
turnaround times. I do want to
highlight that just for
transparency that these are
the permits that has been
issued, right? So what has
been issued, we've averaged 15
days, but they're still
obviously permits and Kia have
not So that's what those
bullets are reflecting there.
25% of what has been applied
for is still in progress. So
hasn't been issued. But a
quarter of those are just
waiting to be issued. Like the
reviews done. They're waiting
on payments. They're waiting
on the drainage from a trial p
to be. Issue that kind of
thing average of 15 working
days for applicant response.
So that means we've waited on
average 3 weeks for folks to
get back to us when we've sent
them letters of review and the
highest in the data that I saw
was 106 days that we've been
waiting for a Again, there's
always room for improvement,
but I think our teams are
showing just fantastic results
it comes to us like drilling
into the data and seeing how
numbers Moving on to the plus
side of the house. We like to
highlight our neighborhood
cleanups. 13 times. I think
we're already beyond that. I
think this number just
included our first one. And so
it doesn't include some of our
others. But we did. We picked
up 3120 25 in her
neighborhood. Cleanups. Did
over 400 times in 2025. Trash
cases. We obviously have our
free clean program. So if
you're someone who's been a
victim of illegal dumping, we
don't want issue a penalty the
cost to clean it up. See sign
an affidavit weekly for you
can see what we've done. The
community there. We also
started high weeds and grass
assistance program last year.
We have not had the adoption
that we wanted to see. But I
we have planned to fires of
that. I would suggest
assistance program that we can
stuff in the envelopes with
the violation. Letters of
people can be more aware.
Think the letter speaks to it
now. But people are just over
looking at and then obviously
thousands of unsafe building
and zoning higher than we were
at this point last year. It
asked a question yet the high
weeds and grass assistance
says one primo year-to-date
for $95. That doesn't read
it's free. Help me. That's
what we pay. Ok? So was reason
all of the number all the cars
you see on this slide are cost
that we pay for 8 and that's
Owners reach out and say I
can't do it for abc are the
kind of fly. That's not great.
Thank So this like we've kind
of lumped together our repair
vacancy and demolition orders.
And remember last year we
posed to create the vacancy
case and council. And of that
legislation. And so now we are
allowed to penalize property
owners who had repair orders
for an excessive amount of
years. So it's just an extra
tool in our tool kit at
additional layers of
enforcement on top of those
properties, we opened over
1100 repair orders last year.
We were at 500 year to date at
the beach AUGUST 6.67 Vacancy
cases of that hope. And I
think we targeted about 120.
26 were still on target for
those were just trying to open
them as we open new repair
orders. So those inspections
and penalties are happening at
the same time. 2 big wants to
point out Kingsway in and 39th
the numbers and those are very
big properties and our ability
to add vacancy cases. We
believe that's helping push
the idea of, you please,
please instruction. 107
structure, but for demolition
in 2025, as you MAY recall, a
couple years ago, the council
appropriated 3 million dollars
to us to help clean up our
backlog. And we have really
put that money toward. You can
see here. 49 structures are
under contract. 36 are in the
bid process and 50 remain in
our backlog. When we got that
investment, we had 325
demolition cases and 140 in
our backlog. So there's always
going to be something because
we're always opening new
demolition cases and putting
things and good things like
that. That you can see the
team is just done an
exceptional job of chipping
away at number. So are these
abandoned home? Typically when
we go and assess a repair
order are expected, goes
around the property and
assesses all the different
things that can be wrong with
That's that's out of score.
And that helps us assess
penalties and things like
that. But it's at that time.
We usually determine is this
in such a state of disrepair
that we need to order
demolition case. Can this
still be repaired so those are
all properties where we found.
Yes, it needs to be demolished
lifted them building process
to, to do that. And there's
no. There's no honor living So
it's a crack To terminating
otherwise it goes to Marion
County and in a band of
something very specific. So
we're very cautious about
using the make it. Yeah. Your
question so that is the owner
responsible for paying for the
cost of the demolition?
Correct. So after we've done
the demolition, we assess of
the cost that to the owner.
And if they do not pay it,
that becomes a lien on their
property they're provided
demolition orders to do it
themselves grant. Process
they're made aware when the
demolition order is open there
made aware when the hearing
occurs, they have the ability
to come before the alj in and
speak and say look them up
They are made aware. I think
we put in process as well. So
they're given notices that the
entire period, yes, if they
come to us is a hand
demolishing this. Obviously
that's money. We could divert
to another property. So a lot
of the order, sessions a lot
that several the orders. We
opened and up. And owner,
motion. All right. Moving on a
technology. As I mentioned
earlier, a lot of state
legislation changes create a
lot of development work for it
team they a fantastic job last
year. Going all that done,
especially with all of our
rain fee changes. There a lot
that needed to be ready to go
by JANUARY. 1st. You can see
over to the left the year to
date. Excuse me says actions
its speaking to earlier
haven't seen the adoption on
that that we'd like to see.
But what have seen, it's been
Only one for one neutral and
everything else. Things that
are very good. So we love to
see that especially when we
see specific comments about
specific staff members and
permit flows. Right of way
inspection. So previously, the
only way you could complain
about. Improper use of the
right of way or someone
blocking off right of way was
to tell your counselor or to,
you know, call us the kind of
thing. Now we have a request
and workload for So you can
report if you see a contractor
closing a lane or things like
that and we'll send an
inspector out and see if it's
something that's been
permitted or not. We went live
with the road closures so
that's road closures that
indeed dot Gov. You can see at
any given time what road
closures are occurring in
Marion County, especially
those that pertain to special
events or dpw projects, things
like that. We're also pivoting
that tool to create a new
search for all cases. So road
closures and special that will
continue to live in one tool.
But everything else related to
permitting or inforcement will
be in a new tool. So this
allows you to visually see an
area see like what permits or
enforcement cases exist in
that area. There's also the
potential or the possibility
for both of those tools where
you could draw a space request
notifications that certain
frequencies. So for counselors
or people, neighborhood
associations, things like that
like being able to see what is
open in your area is great
feature. Encounter. Something
we talked about last year is a
tool that Acela our permit
tool provides. It is
essentially a wizard of sorts
as far as like, you know, I'm
building this thing. Here's
you know where I live. Here's
what kind of house and in
thing, it's not going to be
perfect. But the idea is that
it can in just a lot of
information and out of general
idea. Here is what the permits
are going to need. Look like.
There's so much those things
will cost and it will be
integrated with the cell as
well. Even her team conducted
a phone tree overhaul. Where
are we Translate into 8, 6, 6
languages there. The 6 highest
spoken languages in Marion
County. The process used to be
that if you spoke different
language, he left a voicemail.
We tell of the voice mails. We
gave it to our translator.
They translated them. They
came back to us and we figured
out where it needed to go. Now
people can call and request an
interpreter. Have a real-time
conversation with those 6
guys, languages. Short-term
rental data. That is something
that is. Regulated at the
state level that we pass an
ordinance under that statute
in order try to regulate it
better ourselves. We are very
much limited in our ability to
enforce short-term rentals
when it comes to actual
enforcement. But we're trying
to make a better effort at
collecting the data and they
love that bit more proactive
we can about reaching out to
folks in saying, hey, you
know, there's a registry you
need to pay for. You need to
register. There's a lot of
tools in the market that
scrape the data, but they
don't actually have. They
can't guarantee true placement
that usually within a
perimeter so might be this
house from it. That house we
recently found a tool. No,
we're very interested in
because they do a lot of their
own q, a qc. So it's truly
like here's the Excel File.
These are all short-term
rentals in your area. So that
cut off a lot of staff. Time
on our side it would be far
easier for us to be a bit more
practice with those property
owners. Finally system
Discovery. We recently. This
board entered into an initial
contract open the to do some
discovery work. And develop a
proof concept as we're working
through. That's the we
realized what we were creating
was a scope that essentially.
Would have collecting all of
our requirements. It's
starting to build in the tool.
And the more we talked about
that, the controller's office
of the mayor's office, we felt
maybe we should push the
breaks here and maybe this is
the time to request for
qualifications. And so that
gives open up time to put
together a proposal about how
they could potentially like
meet our needs. Fed also gives
us all the time because
they've purchasing different
companies to be able to
provide more low. No code
options and anybody else is on
the market. There's a lot of
leaner, eager systems now the
market who are trying to come
after a lot of the bigger
monopoly systems. And so now
more than ever, we think we
have the opportunity to get a
really good turnout from folks
who are interested in the
permitting and code
enforcement space. So we'll be
conducting in our before the
end of the year. Just to see
what is out there in the
environment and what might
work for system. And so the
goal being that by the end of
the year, we should know. Is
it doesn't make sense to move
forward with a new solution.
Doesn't make sense to to sit
tight. With what we have.
Should we be investing more in
the current kind of?
Alys? So you guys have
approved several change orders
for Ali program. And we as you
know, we committed 5 million
dollars over 3 years. We've
done a total of 32 Ali
segments and just to put that
into, I think better terms you
can understand that's over
27,000 feet of right of way,
which is a little over to ins
tracks. So that is incredible
think about the alleys that
are in Marion County. Many of
those that were in disrepair.
We talk about 32 segments. It
is a really sound like a lot.
But we really truly touched a
lot of neighborhoods and a lot
of alleys. We also clean over
44 tons of illegal dumping,
which I can remember it was
something like if you took the
starting lineup of the Indy
500 and added an additional 20
cars, that's the weight what
we cleaned up in the valley.
So really incredible to see
the impact this project has
had. We're continuing to
coordinate with dpw to think
through what are some
proactive ways that we can
help get trashed disposed of
sodas and if any setting. So
whether that's sponsoring, you
know, kind of a Saturday
transfer stations around the
county to meet people where
they are, whether that's
adding are all off at some of
the recycling depots. I'm just
trying to come up with
creative ways because if we're
going to pay for it. To clean
up out of an alley, then
what's the difference if are
paying for it on the front end
to help with disposal? Now you
but yeah, in all right. So now
the fun part of the budget
presentation. So overall, our
budget for 2027 is increasing
by nearly 1.4 million dollars.
There are few bigger changes
throughout our where budgets
organize going into 27. Like
those here on the front. And
why not being repetitive later
on? The first thing. Is that
earlier this year, House
enrolled axed 10 0, 1, went
into effect, which created
some pretty significant
accounting requirements for
building construction related
activities that are conducted
by various yes departments and
agencies. So we are impacted
by this and says d-Md. So
created a new fund that's are
building and construction
activity fund. I'm so our
source line at the top looks
kind of crazy. If you look at
the variance column time. But
overall holistically, things
are not changing that
dramatically. Year-over-year
because of that big shift. We
are also making additional
changes in the way that we
larger department. One
contracted partner white
expenses. Previously fortunate
to be able to things just to
add finance, make it easy for
our team. But now because of
the new counter garments are
splitting things up. I have to
eat counter percent labor
related to certain type
activity. That kind of thing.
And overall get into this than
the actual character one side.
But predominantly the major
you're seeing here is all
these her personal expenses,
which easy to celebrate and
talk about personal
investments. In my opinion.
Before we get into expense
side of things just wanted to
briefly touch on our revenue
projections for 27. We're
estimating a total of 25 and a
half million dollars in
revenue for 2027. We have 4
different revenue accounts
that are revenue falls under
license and permits pretty
self-explanatory. It's where a
majority of those types of
counts live charges for
services primarily are made up
of application fees and the
player, new fees and fines and
forfeitures predominantly is
made up of hiding grass keys
and we this is also resigning.
Tickets live as well. Other
receipts it's not super
helpful. Identifying
information, but that's some
coaches. And that's what
leads. That's where unsafe
building fund related fees for
Repair boarding. And now the
vacancy case type live as well
as other miscellaneous types
like climate change orders
changes, lander, registration
fees, those sorts of things.
As you mentioned, that we are
doing program budgeting for
this year. I'm so we are now
the 8th. City agency that is
participating in this because
we are a revenue-generating
department. We also get to
present our revenue as a
program. So this is all the
programs that generate revenue
for our department and how
they relate to one another.
It's a part of country. On the
expense side for Bergen
budgeting. There are 11
different program codes and
last detail all those types
activities that we're
anticipating for 27 and the
successes from 26. But that's
broken down here for you to
see as well. And also
beautiful pie chart to one
another.
Character one. Our personal
expenses mentioned that this
is where we're seeing the
largest of that 1.4 million
dollars increase. 1.3 that is
dedicated specifically for
personnel increases year over
year. 3% of that increase is
due to possible adjustment for
our non-union staff members.
And 3% of this is an increase
to our union staff members per
the collective bargaining
agreement and the final U.S.
There's 2 other things. Major,
major shift in the reason why
we're seeing such a large
increase is due to our
attrition rate changing from
17.7 9% to 5.9% Attrition rate
is a multiplier that added on
to every single position
within the department. That
base makes an assumption that
if that person last, this is
how long we would anticipate
that position to remain vacant
Fort still. So it's more or
less a vacancy savings rate.
Because of our vacancy,
changing so significantly over
the years we've been able to
work them on negotiating,
decreasing our attrition rate
going into 27. And so
hopefully with this means is
that we'd be able to post in
positions a little bit
quickly. And 27. The final
note. That's not know year
because all the other city
agencies have been talking
about it in their budget
presentations. But this is new
information, I think for Of
our character. One budget also
includes lump sum for Stephen
grade. And this is a new
policy that's being rolled out
enterprise wide for. I knew
it. Staff members that
assesses it it of growth Debby
growth over time while you
remain in a position. So it's
an additional opportunity to
go war. Folks are saying in a
position and retaining like
historical knowledge for the
apartment. We're excited about
the opportunity and we don't
have time details on exactly
how that's going to rolled out
yet. But if you want more
information about that when
it's available, happy to
follow up. Character to use
our supply budget. Rate of
increase is significant. But
the overall dollar amount is
We are seeing an increase in
our character to expenses
because we are moving from a
uniform rental model to
purchase model of the way that
gets code. It is. The shift
here. Here are has a decrease
$14,000. The overall like.
Ratio of increase it decrease
for character to character. 3
is not one to one because the
there are some other contracts
that are increasing and
decreasing are falling off for
2027. And now I'm guest over
Jacob for Just and you're
willing cover this one work in
the end finance vision. And
cannot rule has serve as the
liaison 4 department to the
osce, minority and women
business development just kind
walking to this graphic The 3
Horizontal lines represent the
goals for for each
classification business that
are included in all of x pe
program be the minority
business enterprise, the
women-owned business
enterprise and the veteran
owned business enterprise.
Those schools are said 8%, 3%.
Starting for left 3 columns
that represents our average
stand on an annual basis over
essentially the previous 9
years going back to when we we
became business neighborhood
services from code
enforcement. Really proud of
that long-term sustained
success that is demonstrated
there. We into those
categories. We're able to see
the city's goals roughly 2%,
each or 2 points. Each and
then on one that we did fall
short. We're only about a
quarter point short.
Therefore, the minority owned
business Enterprise still
really strong. Stand on the
whole some years. Hire some
news. Lower rate averages. And
then looking at this you can
you can tell just starting in
the minority owned business
Enterprise were not at part of
average for the yet. You spent
about a quarter million
dollars with and that
classification from so far
this year for about 11 a half
percent of And the reason why
still have optimism make the
goal this year is a lot of
spin that we get in that
category is vendors that
perform certain services that
you better certain times a
year. For example, Huntington
Grass, we multiple and the
even years participating in
that program. That program
doesn't kick off to You don't
see in voices maybe till JUNE
in and that's going continue
all the way through the
remainder of the year so that
that's been is really just
kind still in the early
stages. And in you was time
goes by we're pretty well
covered on rv's. We have a
great long-term partnership
with talented just services.
They significant portion of
our trash and illegal dumping
cleanups. Assisted us in Alan
Way Project that has been
ongoing the last couple years.
We have really no concerns
about ability to meet
commitment in that category.
And then think a isn't about
the the remainder of the year.
Ahead for our women-owned
business enterprise
categories. Well, over the
last year and a half, we
didn't have from one of our
top, demolition our processes
for whatever reason.
Fortunately, our last one that
was successfully been was was
awarded to that in base hit.
It's rare to feel when they're
responsible for so that's a
large dollar contract. And
we're talking about, you know,
large number structural
demolitions. And so I think
that you're going to close
that gap as the progresses and
just to give shout out to a
few of our long term as the
partners of highlands and
greener than Einstein. It's
time to pray where any mention
ally construction all of 40
baking structures. So kind the
whole county for us get in.
Get deals are planned review
services. We buy a lot of
supplies from Rivers, business
use the temp agency guides
mention and then for certain
pending job. We work with our
funding. Henry so I'm just a
lot of great, strong
connections. And in the next
even your community, history
success this program reason
change going forward. Thank
you, real Thank you, Jacob,
for your intentional attention
to to that space think is
awesome. You've always been a
star in this area and you work
hard and it and it shows what
and I should also get a shot
to the wbd are easy to work
with always to. I'm sure
whatever resources and
connections they have with us
to make the program successful
can so.
Alright, character for
vehicles and equipment. No
changes. Were be able new
fleet next Makes a like maybe
one car probably big another
weights and measures trying we
did have to replace one of
probe or units vehicles for
the weights and measures. This
year hear about budget there
itself. As long as we don't
have to do something like
that. Yeah, maybe we can get
multiple. Character. 5 is for
Colonel Services and charges.
There's a slight increase to
our occ charge back act.
Charge backs in our charge
backs decreasing next year.
Overall, very small increase
over year. And that's all I
have budget there any
questions? For myself, fever
for Jacob? It's not they also
know that a lot of
information. Obviously, if
there are questions all in the
presentation, we are happy to
follow up and has even
mentioned. We're very excited.
But Stephen grade a program,
you know, we did a lot of
right-sizing and work to get
union salaries where they need
to be. This is an initiative
by all of them to focus on the
retention for our non-union
staff, which much needed as
well. So I think it's going to
be a really great opportunity.
Obviously, once we have more
policy information I'm excited
to hear more about that. And
also, congrats on your
turnover rate in getting that.
Yeah, children. Great
chamber's having an event in
at the end of SEPTEMBER and
now I'm self-promoting here.
But it's trying to xp vendors
in front of people who need
them. So if you guys want to
be a part of we'd be happy to
have you as a participant
thank you. Also I've there
Shay given every time done
this presentation, but I
haven't done it yet. But thank
you, Jacob. Rest of the team
for all your hard work on a
budget that services not an
easy task of all the different
challenges we had to Thank
Jason. Just to clarify all the
departments like a project
budget because across them
they fit into the characters
within those kind of works.
Nearly all of them. We for
agencies rolled it out last
year. Impd isd, okay. Just and
dpw. And then for new agency
city agencies rolled it out
this year. I say us the mta
and parks. So they're still
kind of a focus on character
to some degree. I think that's
also just because of the
language understand. But yeah,
being able to really apply one
of the expenses that go into
filling a pothole yeah. Will
be a lot more clear. Awesome.
Any other questions about? We
all right. With no other
business to come before the
board are next. Meeting is
9/24/2026 in this room t to 60