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at community out reach it was put in it to end with some sort of activity within her district. we are not 100 percent sure what that is going to look like. we have a meeting with her at 1:00, but we decided to move it from the grants, which would be like the out or the program, to the community out reach. so that makes the grants look like there is a cut and an increase in community out reach. it offsets itself. but, we are seeing that, we are proposing a 75,000 increase in our media out reach. and bill strong, our public affairs legislative manager, could talk to you about what is envisioned in that. but that is the main increase. real increase in community out reach. i do have a question. i think that last year, when we were talking about our grant programs, the cup and the sr and we also had a presentation from the senior i guess it was a task force around seniors and sros. issues and there was additional money that was talked about that we were going to aim specif ....
the nrv does not typically bring in any money, we end up putting in we put in a assessment against their property tax so that they can t and that is if you are already broke, there are, you know, if you are already in bankruptcy, it is difficult to get any more. they can also result in being referred to the city attorney s office. sometimes is that after several years, brings in funding and that essentially offsets the city attorney s work to get to that. i don t think that it is a money maker or set up to be that way. but, it is, you know, part of of our mission, and based on your concern and the board of supervisors concern we are trying to putoer resources into that. okay, thank you. thank you, deputy director. commissioner lee? yes. i have a question on the over all budget plan. and workforce. i was wondering if the budget takes into account any additional employees that are needed when they are mandatory retrofit program starts and if it does not, i a ....
and if any project that we should do this and it is a lot of money, but i think that it is money that would be well spent for the community and we will see that, you know, it takes time simply, and that is the frustrating thing about it. but when it does get done. but also to your question, the whole process of these violations that are outstanding, beefing up our code enforcement division is helpful because it provides more staff to actually look into these things. and i think that if you look at the budget they have suggested adding people there. okay. i think that that will help a lot. because you know, when you take people away from permitting and inspecting it effects those divisions and so focusing really specifically on code endivorcement is really the way to widle down these outstanding violations. in the current year there were two building inspectors added effective january first. they think that we could not fill them until january and that is correct ....
assessment against their property tax so that they can t and that is if you are already broke, there are, you know, if you are already in bankruptcy, it is difficult to get any more. they can also result in being referred to the city attorney s office. sometimes is that after several years, brings in funding and that essentially offsets the city attorney s work to get to that. i don t think that it is a money maker or set up to be that way. but, it is, you know, part of of our mission, and based on your concern and the board of supervisors concern we are trying to putoer resources into that. okay, thank you. thank you, deputy director. commissioner lee? yes. i have a question on the over all budget plan. and workforce. i was wondering if the budget takes into account any additional employees that are needed when they are mandatory retrofit program starts and if it does not, i am wondering what we are going to do, do we need more employees when that happens. ....
into these things. and i think that if you look at the budget they have suggested adding people there. okay. i think that that will help a lot. because you know, when you take people away from permitting and inspecting it effects those divisions and so focusing really specifically on code endivorcement is really the way to widle down these outstanding violations. in the current year there were two building inspectors added effective january first. they think that we could not fill them until january and that is correct. and we. and the board of supervisors also added a clerk to help with the paperwork because every nrv in the directors hearing requires a significant amount of paperwork and moving the process along. and 13, 14, the board had already approved another building inspector effective october of this year. and then we are asking for another one so in essence, between current year, with the two, we will have four new ones. okay including the current ....