. >> commissioner josefowitz. >> could you maybe talk a little bit about why the outreach budget is going up by 10 percent and then why the climate renewables budget is going down and it seems like in particular the pc's revenue stream is going down a lot? >> i will address the second one first. the reason the climate renewables budget is going down is specifically tied to the fact that a lot of our support for climate work comes from the sfpuc, specifically the power division of the sfpuc they have a major budget issue this year and they have dramatically decreased our work order. so as a result we have also cut our climate work correspondingly. the outreach budget --. >> what is that going to actually lead to? what are we not going to be able to do next year that we were doing this year? >> specifically we have a vacancy in that area. it means that we will not fill that position as quickly as we would otherwise. it certainly, it's -- and the result of that will be that we'll have less capacity to do some of the climate work we've done in the past. i think what we are looking at now is e

. >> you know, piggybacking off of commissioner josefowitz, yeah, it just seems as if some of the things that are kind of focused in the same way, it would be interesting at some point in time in the year maybe to talk about that with the director seeing there is some budget savings in terms of outreach and things of that nature. because it seems to me that, you know, having all these multiple departments when they still kind of intermingle in the same area seems a little inefficient for people doing efficiency. yeah, so i think at some point in time i think in concert with the director one of our committees may want to take that on looking at the budget and the program at different times we have had different committees to look at this and look at that and change those things up. i don't recall it actually engaging the department in the structure of its departments, but it may be one of those things we may want to take a look at next year. >> i also think that it would be great to assign outreach according to the program areas that they are supporting as opposed to having it separated o