to call together the finance committee meeting for the city of santa barbara city council and if seeing that there is no one in the audience to make public comment on any items that are not on the agenda we'll go to the very first item on the agenda which is the only thing m works their business manager some brand interviews filling a spot so today this afternoon we will be presenting to city council the two thousand and nineteen recommended budget and after that we will have a number of special hearings they're going to be not on tuesdays but special meetings where each of the departments are gonna have a chance to present their budget in detail and have a lot of questions there's gonna be a lot of public review and that'll all culminate in late june with the adoption of the budget  concurrent with that we we come to the finance committee and and we don't repeat what we do with city council we bring to this finance committee any proposed changes to fees whether they be enterprise funds or general fund fees we'll want to bring the capital not sure that's listed here both the capital program i think discussing that this year in particular with measure c would be important and then we bring to you our assumptions for revenues and a multi or forecast the latest and greatest of that and then we basically ask finest committee for recommendations on all that and that we then take to council in early june for their consideration one of the things we asked finance committee because it seems like every year or something else gets at it is is there any other topic that the finance committee would like to us to bring and discuss  either an area than in more detail um or anything related to the budget in addition to what's here so we asked that question your role again is kind of these items here you're also going to be looking at all the budgets that council  but you have an opportunity to dive into more detail any area of the budget you feel like you'd like to look at that's really what we're asking for today is one any new topics and to just approving what we have here before you and plan for the next couple months to bring to you so with that i'd be happy to hear from you any particular questions or comments from members of the committee councilmember friedman just you mentioned measure c so that was on my my list of measure c and then another one i was interested in was economic development what we what we allocate towards that and including to visit santa barbara those types of things but also just economic development in general what we we contribute to that just that's clarification so we have a pot of money under what we call community promotions i actually now in the mayor and councils budget as a program so that's from where is from that pot of money is where we give money to visit santa barbara all spanish days and those kinds of things the more community promotions economic development is another category you want to look at or in addition to that or separate from that i want to look at at both because i believe they're both pertinent especially in light of the disasters and we're looking at what we can we've had requests looking at what we can contribute if we can so those those two pots  thank you i'm trying to remember what we do in terms of pensions and calpers as part of the budget process we don't do anything special or separate historically when mindy white was on the finance com that kind of discussion and update if you will every year but that's nothing that we don't have anything planned per se on that other than generally what we've talked about already okay no it's it's that's more of a long term and this is really looking at the next year two years so if there's anything that does come up from the agency that you think is worth briefing us on and feel free to to work it in thank you and everybody's fine with the kit the proposed calendar and schedule is that okay