Those in person should line up to speak and those on the phone should dial star 3 to be added to the queue. You will have 2 minutes you will hear a time at 30 seconds and a second chime when your 2 minutes is up. 1. Call to yard. Sushth son. Director dunlop. Director richardson. Here director howard. Here and supervisor dorsey. We have a quorum. Thank you so much and thank you for joining us today. We will go to the next item. Item 2 general Public Comment. This item is to alet you public to address the tida board on matters in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and dont appear on the agenda. In addition, Public Comment will be during each item on the agenda. Is there anybody hold like to address the board on general comment. Good afternoon, commissioners and im jeff kline a 25 year resident of thank you for hearing my comment. Which is regarding climb that made in the past. And was repeated again by director becket last month that Treasure Island housing would not exist exce
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To lawmakers about Mental Health care and Suicide Prevention programs for veterans and their families. The witnesses testify on why some are not receiving the necessary treatment and how a new law passed last year is trying to address the issue. This hearing is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] committee come to order. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with the committee for todays oversight hearing entitled combating the crisis evaluating efforts to prevent veteran suicide. As the hearing title suggests, we are here this morning to discuss the ongoing veteran suicide crisis that, according to the latest Data Available from the department of Veterans Affairs, finds 22 veterans a day dying at their own hands. Im disappointed that the v. A. Was not able to release updated veteran suicide statistics at this time for this hearing. I understand that the center for Disease Control finally provided National Data to v. A. In the middle of march. Considering the critica
I call this thes hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture attrition and forestry to order. Thank you all for coming. Todays hearing will examine the overall climate of credit in Rural America, the health of ag lending from the commercial bank in the farm Credit System perspectives and what the impact of current credit environment having our nations farms. We will also examine whether the Farm Credit Administration is exercising appropriate oversight in the farm Credit System. Farmers and ranchers across the country are experiencing difficult Economic Conditions as the farm sector profitability is forecast to decline for the Third Straight year. Over the past three years alone, debt debt farm income is expected to decline by 56 . As our nations farmers and Rural Communities continue to deal with low Commodity Prices and always elevated input costs, access to Affordable Credit in Rural America is absolutely crucial. The spring 2016 agriculture Lenders Survey released by kansas stat
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