Seeing applications coming in at a rapid pass and i will say that one of the unusual things the biggest bulk of the permit applications are for rehabilitation or permits to alter existing buildings so many of our buildings are 50 years old. Were seeing a high number of those applications come in. Thats effecting how were going to use those in our work plan and keith will go over that in detail good afternoon commissions im keith the it manager its, its my pleasure to present the upcoming information. Were go over recent case permit and as well as our revenue budget and our capital requests weve made and the updated work Program Including the 11 positions and the proposing proposal to eliminate 4 foes and the remaining items for the budget calendar. So let me start with some recent case of volume trend. This bar charts represent the volume and the line represents the percent changes from the prior fiscal year. So you can see in the past 5 to 6 years weve Seen Department growth. Last yea
This year and plus a second position thats dedicated to the Historic Preservation commission so weve added two and another two next year. I agree its not as high as it could be but its a balancing act we see the efficiencies and collaboration and reporting back and forth you might have more information im in support of having this department acquit well staffed. We only hear it when its too late. Back to my comments i would personally be interested to hear in detail about the grants thats a small part of the persuasion but i would be interested to hear about this we never get the details and never hear about why you win awards. Lastly as youre describing the general planning Environment Planning etc. , i would be interested to hear a little bit more of how particularly the first 2 items currently planning and citywide planning collaborate and overlap. Commissioner sugaya. Yes. Lets see under 8 staff positions that are authorized or whatever but noted funded directly and the new 11 posi
Bawsca. Already movement and seconded Public Comments . I would like to. You sure can. I would like to say that it was an excellent letter and brought to my issues to my concern, and to my attention and i would like to know when we will be receiving a list of the items you just set forth in letter form that would [inaudible]. The bawsca letter outlined some deadline and i intend to meet those dead lines the other thing that i will do if you want, and if the general manager is in agreement would be to brief you every two weeks on the progresses being made but for sure as i mentioned we will ameliorate all of the dead lines and i think some of them were in the february or and ill make sure that we meet those dead lines. Good and i would like to add to that, that i think we should look at the five project that we have in preconstruction. Yes. See if there is anything that can be done. Yes, it will certainly be in the best that is a very good point because often once a project goes into co
The work to continue and in the mean time we will continue to negotiate a final change or the on the record with the contractor and we are hoping that this can be englished by the enof neb and and i mentioned to you once we are done with the negotiations we will see where we stand on the cost of the cal cal calaveras and also to comply with the requirements of the California Water code issue a notice of change report to the state following your approval of any changes to the projects. What is the total cost savings that you are projecting . Its hard at this point because i have not done my assessment but on top of my head based on a cursory review im approaching the 60 million. But, you know, i do not want to slidfy that until we have gone through our entire review. And of course, that savings would be attached to the 117 million, correct . Yeah what we are doing now is using the one 17 to cover all of the hard costs but i need to come back with the additional funding needs and so what
Recommendations as ms. , labonte said before you were nice enough to incorporate our recommendation into your motion and i hope that is what you can do today. Off motion mr. Moran . I move that we amend the resolution to adopt the recommendations. The date of the letter is january 16th 2013. Thank you. Written by bawsca. Already movement and seconded Public Comments . I would like to. You sure can. I would like to say that it was an excellent letter and brought to my issues to my concern, and to my attention and i would like to know when we will be receiving a list of the items you just set forth in letter form that would [inaudible]. The bawsca letter outlined some deadline and i intend to meet those dead lines the other thing that i will do if you want, and if the general manager is in agreement would be to brief you every two weeks on the progresses being made but for sure as i mentioned we will ameliorate all of the dead lines and i think some of them were in the february or and il