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Personal & Finance committee advances appropriations, payroll adjustments and negotiating team to council
Summary
At its June 22 meeting the Personal & Finance committee advanced a $48.15 million supplemental appropriations bill and several small quarter‑2 transfers, approved a package of salary‑ordinance amendments (including a new grant‑funded deputy director in Human Rights) and named the council negotiating team for upcoming police contract talks.
The South Bend Personal & Finance Committee met June 22 and sent a set of budget and personnel items to the full council with favorable recommendations.
Controller Kyle Willis presented Bill 33‑26, a 2026 additional‑appropriations measure that includes roughly $48,150,000 in street‑repair and maintenance appropriations, $7,000,000 in HUD grant proceeds placed into the community investment grant fund, and $2,170,720 from Bloomberg grant proceeds for IT needs. After a short public hearing with no speakers, the committee voted 4–0 to forward the bill with a favorable recommendation.
Willis also described three modest Q2 interfund transfers under Bill 34‑26 (examples included $800 to cover a City Hall tool allowance and $3,799 to cover engineering travel), which the committee also advanced unanimously.
The committee considered a set of non‑bargaining salary amendments that included a proposed deputy director position for the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and a market adjustment for the HRC executive director. Staff said the deputy‑director slot (proposed salary $100,235) would be funded from federal grant funds in Fund 258 and would not be filled this fiscal year; the executive‑director increase (from $101,000 to $115,000) would be paid from the general fund to alleviate pay compression. "The deputy director position will be funded by grants," a staff presenter said; Corporation Counsel Sandra Kennedy confirmed the deputy and the housing‑manager role will be the same person as they transition roles and that the funding structure allows the department to manage the change.
The committee also approved small salary‑cap adjustments for two positions in the Morris performing arts center and a classification/title change (MS4 specialist to MS4 coordinator) in Public Works to reflect added stormwater program responsibilities.
Finally, the committee approved a resolution naming the council's negotiating team for the year's Fraternal Order of Police negotiations and designating an outside attorney as the council's agent negotiator. The committee moved each item by motion and recorded unanimous or near‑unanimous roll‑call votes where required; all items will be considered by the full council in committee of the whole or on the council floor as appropriate.
The committee met in person and online; no members of the public spoke against any of the Personal & Finance items during the recorded public hearings. The council will consider the forwarded measures at upcoming sessions.
