ms. howard colleagues, any questions for ms. ward. >> supervisor tang. >> going back to slide 16 in terms of our potential fiscal strategies the $250 million in terms of the reserves is that just the assumption of what in terms of our charter we're supposed to be setting aside or additional amazes to put aside. >> there are a couple of pieces that flow in terms of a down turn we can draw on our rainy day fund and our budget stabilization reserve and the ability to reset our general fund revenue to a lower baseline that are and so those 3 things forgot a generate $450 million over the recession if you're interested in the table on the 5 year plan i can point this out to you. >> colleagues, any further questions for ms. howard thanks very much for being here at this time kansas city public improvement advisory committee is there any member of the public who wishes to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues this is the one substance i have today thank you, ms. howard for being here we'll spend this time of march g

ms. howard just so our community is clear and members of the public those numbers were compiled a few moose good this is to get an action item on the full 5 year plan in the next few weeks. >> that's correct three weeks is what we're talking about i expect updated numbers in the next week this is the because of the 5 year financial plan and we'll talk about the update in a couple of weeks on the revenue does the revenue growth is strong throughout the 5 year frontals assuming there is no economic downturn 13 percent growth over the next 5 years as i mentioned the higher growth rates are higher in the 3 years of the plan because we want to make sure that we're accounting for potential risk of economic changes over the last years of the plan the top like that t is what we're projecting with our revenue fined resources to $210 million in growth compared to the first years and another one hundred a strong revenue growth i think we're looking across you know all our major tax revenue growth 4 5 and 6 percent and slower in the last part of the plan i'll highlight the second line is noting changes

ms. howard just so our community is clear and members of the public those numbers were compiled a few moose good this is to get an action item on the full 5 year plan in the next few weeks. >> that's correct three weeks is what we're talking about i expect updated numbers in the next week this is the because of the 5 year financial plan and we'll talk about the update in a couple of weeks on the revenue does the revenue growth is strong throughout the 5 year

ms. julia coma, the chairperson who was responsible for the ticket holders. it also went to the western addition and down on fourth street and howard street where we droment agency came in and came in with the muskone center. those people also have certificates. i never saw that brought up that are entitled to certificates. i would like for those people to be notified also. they need to go address to address. people in those areas. shore view, anywhere on that hill and let them know. some of those people even went back to housing authorities. they are living in housing authority projects and living in portrero hill. some of you need to get a hold of them also. so you know, the ban needs to go forward. everybody doesn't read the newspaper. i sometimes get the weekly or the bay guardian. people don't use the newspapers. when we had joint housing and people on staff, they went door to door giving out information to what joint housing was doing, with new housing an construction. you need to do the same type of thing reaching out to the community and giving it to people who are living there now. thank you very much. >> what a wonderful

ms. sanchez. >> thank you mr. chairman. i actually have two questions. first for general odierno and for the admiral admiral howard. please feel free answer the best you can. i have a letter both from odierno and admiral gren ert sent to secretary hagel november last year. indicating your concerns with essentially how much we are investing in missile defense and the growing changes you see in terms of capacity to continue to invest in missile defense at the current rate considering the fiscal environment that we're in. the letter state ours present acquisition-based strategy is unsustainable in the current fiscal environment and faces forward in lieu of the options to meet contingency demands. now is the opportunity to develop a long-term approach that addresses homeland missile defense and regional missile defense priorities. a holistic approach that is more sustainable and cost effective, incorporating left launch and other non kinetic means of the defense. this is from your letter general odierno. can you expand on this letter because i believe it's important. and addressing the various threats that face us. and