On June 23 the South Bend Common Council approved two financial measures affecting 2025 departmental budgets: Bill 34-25, a set of supplemental appropriations from multiple city funds, and substitute Bill 35-25, a package of in-year budget transfers.

City Controller Kyle Willis presented Bill 34-25 as appropriations drawn from several funds to support the city's long-term capital plan and a local match for a Kennedy Park grant. The ordinance text as read at the meeting included an appropriation of $2,512,780 from the general fund, $520,000 from Parks and Recreation Fund, $37,500 from the Gift Donation Fund, $2,945,000 from the Local Income Tax economic development fund, $5,000,000 from the Sewage Works Capital Fund, and other fund appropriations cited in the title. Willis said appropriations from the Water Works Capital and Sewer Capital funds would go toward long-term capital improvements and that the local income tax amount was the city's match for Kennedy Park work.

Willis also presented substitute Bill 35-25, a set of budget transfers. He said the substitute removed a roughly $25,000 intra-Waterworks transfer that was no longer needed and described transfers that included $602,357 from park maintenance to a new Visitor Experience budget within the VPA department to cover staff transition and $200,000 in the Community Initiatives division to cover POET outreach program expenses.

Both measures were given favorable committee recommendations and passed on third reading by roll call (each 8-0). No members of the public testified for or against either bill during the hearings.

Council members asked clarifying questions about fund sources and purposes; staff answered that the Waterworks funds were for capital projects and that the transfers reflected planned internal reassignments of staff and program funding. The measures will be implemented through standard departmental accounting and reporting processes.