. >> on february 2, i presented a letter to this commission outlining newhall the budget instructions as with every other city departments. we were asked to provide a 10% budget reduction that amounted to $235,000 to propose another $235,000 for contingency reduction. as i advised to end the annual report as well as the letters i provided on february 2, those reductions would be the result of personnel reductions. for the first round of cuts, should they be taken in by the mayor and the budget office, it would result in the layoff of a couple of clerical positions as well as a vacant investigator position. any reduction in clerical staff would increase the workload of the investigators already have an extremely high caseload as compared to a best practices caseload. as a result, the study that we did where investigators documented the time they spent on various tasks, the reduction in clerical staff could result in the voting 25% of their time. with regard to the contingency reduction and, another position would be eliminated and we would have to eliminate the mediation program becaus

newhall we can give you more information about this. da>> we can give you more information about this. we have been working with the redevelopment agency for more on this. >> and as we know today, in sacramento there is a discussion about the exhilarating -- accelerated plans for the redevelopment, and this sounds a little bit different from what i thought that this was going to be like, when he would take these areas in the state of california, and i have attended a breakfast meeting for a comment on california and the development, and i assume that as you were sitting there, and we have the report on this, something was happening with the hope that you would keep us posted, in terms of how this is affecting us and the work that we do. h>> if we could move forward to the director's report, and the historic preservation commission. >> i was going to tell you that there is a memo for the governor's proposal, and dan prepared this. this calls for us to eliminate these agencies by march 1. not only the redevelopment areas, and treasure isl

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