okay well mister bill dead is getting the power point ready to go just we're here to talk about budget so this is the last day where we're having discussions with the finance committee and we're looking for recommendations i'll and all the things that we brought to you over the last several weeks information technical adjustments and we're gonna present those to you now and then we'll move on through the other items request month other organizations and then looking for a direction and recommendations from you all on all the things we have presented thus far and what we'll show you them all and we'll go through one by one just kind of walk you through budget back in april rd i'm just gonna start him get into them so the first adjustment was included in your staff report and this is the only general fund adjustment however this was an addition you don't make a recommendation on this particular one today if we do decide to move forward we would definitely bring this back to you for consideration so the next two are actually two projects citywide projects in our information technology one being the website content management system in two thousand and twenty one half of the funding for this has already been secured in the recommended budget in this general fund this is the other half that's being allocated out to the special and enterprise funds we just didn't make this into the budget as far as how we would appropriate it so these this is  exactly how it would be appropriated to the specific funds but this is the remaining house so this is the two thousand and twenty one portion i'm showing here for the website content and the other project would be the relationship management project and this would be for fy twenty four this one moving on we have the airport department so they're adding two positions and they included this in their presentation the full counsel and kind of gave you a background as to how they came to these decision to include these positions and department so the solid waste phone has an inclusion i'm have a little hashtag next to this because this isn't included in the staff report but we will asking that you make recognition but they are adding twenty thousand contributing a little bit extra and the friends of the library are decreasing their contribution so the net is what's being shown there so that's some extra revenue there and last the public works department has a  couple the fleet management fund has a compressor generator approbation that they're adding for two of those that's just due to emission mandates that they need them and the measure a fund is decreasing their work order revenue they actually no longer have engineers that are billable positions and that funder they've been moved to different funds so we're removing the billable revenue portion out of that fund and that concludes it for social where's that per year that is just the single year for twenty and so what happens in two thousand and twenty one it's only a one year one time startup exactly ok perfect yeah ok and is this a separate item from the outside do you want to do public comment and a vote on this one first or i don't think we need to do that we'll move on to the next slide ok so these are the requests from outside organizations you've heard from most of them the one that you did not get a chance to hear from last week was the santa barbara culinary experience so i would suggest letting them speak and then we had one request that you all got a copy of from from miss cathy king she is representing earth day and she had a request for additional funding and so you might want to give her some time as well and then once you once they're done and we'll have some our own comments and then santa barbara culinary experience the santa barbara culinary experience it will shine a bright light on why julia child chose to live on the american riviera and when is that one of only two events in the world that will be endorsed by the julia child foundation bottom line our goal is to an each year in march increase hotel occupancy increase restaurant bookings beverage and artisan sales and increase activity in broad range across public and private spaces throughout the city but also to increase domestic and international awareness of santa barbara is a world class culinary destination i sent you some emails this morning much sir if you had a chance to review but that gives a much greater comprehensive details on that my intention is only to speak about three minutes as i'd like to have you have a number of time to mount of time to question for me our request is that the city council be founding sponsor or the santa barbara culinary experience for fifty thousand dollars let me share two milestones with you first august fifteen two thousand nineteen which is less than ninety days away and it was julia's birthday july august fifteen two thousand and nine teen would be our th birthday we're having an event at the montecito club and we are going to bri bringing media across america both in california but across america to come spend two days in santa barbara to review all the culinary attributes that santa barbara has in a way to hopefully have them understand the riches of santa barbara but also to be able to announce the march twenty twenty events the second big milestone i march th through th two thousand and twenty event called the santa barbara culinary experience it's going to be including all the restaurants hotels we've been meeting with the hospitality board we've met with visits barbara we have mis with the mayor and we have a advisory committee and an honorary committee that is committed to making this a very big event that will have a huge impact on the economics of the santa barbara region the event in march of th through th we will also be providing a number of signature events including welcome reception dinners local artisan market key panels held throughout the city we will be having each of the restaurants and hotels have programming about julia and julia teemed themed events and our attention is that in our second year we will go from thousands of people attending several thousand to five to ten thousand people attending about seventy percent of the people will be from the outside of santa barbara but we also be doing programming to help and engage local community at a very varying range of price points so i'd love to answer any questions you have in summary we hope the council we support of being the only city other than washington dc to have a major event that includes the involvement and endorsement of the jewish child foundation questions you mentioned the the montecito club has the county fund of this project no okay no the no one has funded this project yet the jewish child foundations is funded this project so our intention is we're to be spending over five hundred and thirty five thousand dollars in the next twelve months producing this event and so the fifty thousand dollars that we're asking from the city council is less than ten percent of the amount that we're going to be spending on creating an event that can over time make a big huge sustainable annual event that helps and brings all members of the santa barbara community up together okay have you gone through the events committee funny house we've  twenty thousand dollars and our belief is that we really would do much better and we accelerate success in your one if we got fifty thousand dollars okay thank you very much next we'll hear from cathy king from community environmental council representing earth day i think i've good afternoon miss and members of the committee thank you so much for fitting us in today this is long been on our wish list and we just didn't know how to navigate this process so i really appreciate all your help with getting us here we're very grateful that the city currently supports the earth day festival at a ten thousand dollar sponsorship level and we are also well aware that this is much lower than the other major festivals in town and we do consider ourselves to be on a par with those other festivals we have large groups from places like gm and toyota that are sponsors that bring in large groups to work the festival and they also come from out of town and so they stay here so we do we don't know what the tod numbers are but we do know that we have that there is some benefit to the city in that we also have been watching the city's fees that we pay go up on an annual basis and currently what we are paying out to the city in terms of fees police present site rentals the city's booth that we put together as part of the sponsorship exceed the ten thousand dollars sponsorship by almost fifteen thousand dollars so i know that the request is listed as fifty zero but really we would be happy to cover costs this isn't a fundraiser for cec this is our gift to the community it's we structure it as community outreach and we are really just looking to recoup costs and we have we assume all the risk and we have set up three revenue streams that generally help us do that sponsorship registration fees and concessions and a year like this made us realize that concessions can be tricky when the weather is what it was for most of the month of april so we definitely didn't achieve as high of a level as we have in the past and as we had hoped for this year mostly due to the weather because you know we don't go in fully covered until we cover all across with the concession side of it we are also a very eco friendly event not only in what we outreach to the community in terms of the education but in terms of the infrastructure that we set up i believe we're the only major event that has a company hand sort all the waste so there is a landfill version benefit to it and also just an educational opportunity to show the community that we are taking care of all of the better time for the city to have a stronger and more beneficial presence then next year so i think this is great timing i think that we will we always see a decent amount of press outside the region but i think with the th anniversary we will we will amplify that next year and we would love to see the city as a more major partner so thank you very much thank you and is this something you see as an ongoing request or is this a one time thing because of the th anniversary five thousand four hundred and fifty well at the fifty level certainly but we would definitely like to be able to cover the costs that we put out to the city on an annual basis and i'm guessing because you just submitted you didn't go to the event committee either to seek funding no we've been a line item in a strange portion of the budget for a few years and so we're just trying to go in the same trajectory that we were on ok thank you thanks  good afternoon i'm maggie moss tucker and i am just here along with a few committee members of the group that put has proposed not a van gogh exhibition but a three month celebration multi generational citywide so i just want to clarify that three months multi generational citywide but i also decided to just do a quick sidebar in the letter that you received and we hope you got the second one as well from h schneider my husband was the one who curated the monet exhibition in boston that year he was given the most prestigious highest award by the bureau of tourism because it did more economic impact than the red sox that year so i share that with you because we believe that this will have an enormous impact economically and i'm talking to the finance committee for the city so we hope you support it but we are here to say if you have any questions what are the red sox any other questions okay  engagement strategy that can support and enhance many of the city's existing programs as well as the greater goals of the city and can also grow and change over time for example it  as a conduit to our citizens and our residents to build and support and work alongside the fire department in our cert teams it can build our diverse city lit leaders for city commission's committees and support the neighborhood outreaches work it can also support with community policing goals disaster resiliency and the overarching environmental strategies that the city is working on the program is fully customizable based on the needs of the city and its departments and the goals of the staff involved thank you again for considering the proposal and i'm here to answer any questions you may have much any questions okay thank you thank you so with that i'll close public comment okay so just a few comments from staff not going to speak to the merits of the generally to the merits of the request i'm sure they're all great just just some context your if you're familiar with the where we're at from a balancing perspective and all that so all these are represent additional monies that we'd have to find but i will speak make up a few comments on each of them downtown santa barbara's request for an economic development director fifty thousand dollars you know we have a cosman study cosmo instead is coming up in the next month or two not sure what they're gonna recommend but they may recommend that the city have its own economic development manager position so me with the timing of this request is a little through at least have some oversight from the arts advisory committee it is she was not suggesting that we're to go through a competitive process which is how well those sort of monies are allocated through a competitive process but just that did you have some oversight so there's more accountability that but it is extra money i'm not even sure that they would qualify into those pots of money because there's no nonprofit organization or nor is that in the first year lease there's no way event it's just marketing and then i'm gonna have mister matt for speak to the cool block program he's been working with us more close than anybody here and i think he has some due diligence speaking to other cities palo alto was one of the ones that we spoke to quite a bit primarily for two reasons one is because coolbox began and sort of had its genesis in the bay area but also chief eric nichol our new fire chief came from palo alto so to the extent that this has a nexus to resiliency and those sorts of things we want to do understand them the cool blocks program from my understanding and from what i've learned has three primary components to it the first is sustainability and what you know the wait staff looked at it was to what extent does the city have existing programs or initiative in place and this all has to do with you know finite funds and bandwidth of staff  pretty lean organization as you're aware so the you know from a sustainability standpoint staffs perspective is that the direction you've already giving us in relation to the strategic energy plan for example this big work plan that we're putting together to get to a hundred percent renewable electricity by two thousand and thirty is a big lift it's a big lift financially it's a big lift with staff time so i'll leave it to you to weigh where you want to put that funding but certainly the strategic energy plan is going to have a financial component to it and we're gonna have to put you know some fairly substantial dollars toward implementing your council goal the second is resiliency there is a piece of resilienc speaking to chief nickel he said no we're all for resiliency especially here on the south coast our primary our preference in the primary vehicle by which we accomplish that is through these community emergency response teams this cert program it's run out of the city oes department its bilingual we have the cert program as well as lease dos which you've seen of late certainly through the thomas fire and the chiefs concern was either duplicative messaging or or counter message you know encounter messaging or at least dilution of effort right so his his preferences certainly let's put the focus in on the cert programs and keep it there and keep building that robust program as the primary vehicle the third item is really connected neighbors connected neighborliness this is one of the areas that came up in our due diligence calls with palo alto with los angeles and with san francisco the premise that connected neighbors those that are connected that know each other do yield more livable safer you know more enjoyable communities that seem to bear out across the board so i'd kind of leave it to you as to what you're looking for if it's environmental i don't think staff really supports it if it's resiliency the fire chief would rather have it in the cert program if it's connectedness there may be an ability to tailor a program to that as you're aware with any new initiative or if with any new employee the first year is really tailoring curriculum you put a into it and so if you know we probably won't see the real big outcomes until the out years and i think that's the reason for the multi year three hundred and twenty something thousand dollar request in total but i can answer any questions if you have them thank you mister for that was that was enlightening i think one of the comments earlier by mister king about waste diversion so it was successful earth day doing waste diversion for that one group but what about the other three hundred and sixty days a year i think this is something that might allow our communities to really dig in deep if because like you said our goals are lofty for sustainability for the city we're gonna need a humanities component to go along with the science and economic so i think it's it's worth considering any other questions for mister for thank you very much and then i'm gonna have miss laura doubles come up and speak dominguez and committee members i'm laura doubles i'm the housing and human services manager i was here to talk to you today about the housing trust fund request staff believes that this is a really good program it has a very good concept of helping first time homebuyers and we've bought that our understanding for the funding that we had the first time around which was two years ago was that it was a one time request apparently that has not been the case as that they've come forward again but they do have some reasoning behind that that created the issue for them requesting a second time the other thing that staff just wants to make you all aware of is that we have just found that there is no guarantee that  the loans will be for homes here in the city of santa barbara so they are financing homes within a south coast region we are a part of that and it definitely does help our work force  especially you know giving employees an opportunity to buy it mean it just not be here in the city of santa barbara thank dollars that is a line item they don't have to request it every year it's an ongoing automatic unless there's a change to that so they have the same status not magnitude wise but same status is old spanish day's semana nautica x so forth so that's really in terms of our comments looking we can look to you now for your liberation recommendations on each of these items which ones you like to recommend to council or not you can do them individually or as a group so i'm open to suggestions how to proceed i think my default value would just be going to go one one to five and maybe just do a vote up or down and then at the end wrap it up in a motion if everyone's comfortable with the results and if anyone wants to discuss i think in general these are all great programs and i think for ones that we don't fund we're gonna push to get them to sources that might be able to provide funding whether it's a different city budget the event committee housing or the arts fund but i think that's one way to proceed okay so we'll just start with downtown santa barbara's request for a director do you want a comment or just vote okay no no no okay museum of art van gogh no on this one i'm i'm actually i just want to make a preference on this i don't want this process to be an end around this happened at the county on this one i've gone back and forth on it it's only for the twenty thousand for the first year and my reasoning for supporting it's an extraordinary circumstance in that this part of town the businesses have been really affected in particular by the construction at the museum and in library plaza and this is a one time event international and significance that will tie into not only the museum's reopening but if we can get everything lined up it would also be the unveiling of our own city infrastructure at the library plaza so there is a city component of it and again those businesses have been really impacted over the last few years and so this is and this proposal is not conducive to going through the normal process because there's not a non profit so there really isn't another way to do it so this is an exception that i would be willing to make s and yes cool block program no no yes housing trust fund of santa barbara county no i'd like to do it for just one year to see if there are any residents is in santa barbara that are there but not the second year no culinary experience no no no birthday festival no no no okay so by my math just the van gogh passed with two out of three did i calculate that correctly okay if i could just make a quick comment i did not support any of these except i support all of them deeply really and truly i do i just you know for me i'm very sensitive to process issues and so i felt  fairness dictated for me that i had to make these votes but i'm very very excited to see all of your programs and i think it portends well for our community and just to be clear this is not final decision it will be presenting all this to council and they will look for four votes either way on each of these items at that point and  i just also wanted to say to all the groups that i appreciate the great work you're doing and like i mentioned and i think councilmember hartman talked about it this is not a normal process and then my experience that the county saw that it became a normal process and there wasn't a way to make it a level playing field and the the two that i supported were exceptional cases and but i'd want to find a way to see if there's a path for those that didn't offender to come through our our standard processes chair dominguez mentioned earlier so thank you all for your submittals and i agree the the one that made it through it was a relatively low amount and there wasn't a channel set up for it this is a extraordinary process this is not an ordinary process and unless we want to change that up which i don't think there's any appetite given our budget issues to do that the normal channels are through the community development grant process the event committee and  those are the ways i would refer people to look for their funding if they want to go to those processes and this last slide you if you can do kind of us as a group these are the things that we presented to you over the last several weeks i will mention that on the third bullet staff recommended adjustments see if we can just pull out the one item the very first item one hundred fourteen thousand dollars for the police we're gonna hold that in abeyance for we'll bring that back with more information on june th but the rest of them we're looking for recommendations from the finance committee