The unions you know i had theupthe union for my sworn patrol officers and below sergeant, and they were actually my best ally in dealing with issues with benefits and salaries. Thats something you can really, really encourage. So, with that i yield back. Thank you gentleman. This is helpful and hopeful to have a followup meeting soon for the other issues to discuss confidentially in a less public setting because of security reasons. I would like to, at that time, to discuss with the chief efforts to security outside the capital, the district offices, how we use security to sort through the incoming. If you get, you know a thousand emails a day, thats a way to mind that, of using technology to sort through whats likely to be a problem, what is not, and i dont know if thats done at this point, but thats something i want to explore further. With that ill yield back. I thank the gentle lady and the committee members. Pardon me . Second that . Very good. I think all the committee members, o
Welcome to our final session. Id like to introduce myself. Im education archivist at the American Catholic Research Center and im a historian and assistant director for the institute of catholic studies. This panel is concerned with immigration and labor specifically and obviously its an extremely important topic. As most people who migrate to the United States, migrate here to work. And that causes all kinds of thorny issues as were going to see. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce our speaker. We have a couple of books i want to point out. Kimbell baker has a book called go to the worker on American Labor priests. Theres an order form on your table in case you want to order a copy. Second, the authors of this book are here. This copy is available for free and you can get it on your way out. I left a copy of a set of panels from a publication called the Treasure Chest of fun and fact which is actually pretty good. It was a catholic publication, a comic book publication i
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Vent of a Biomass Program might be able to do to help . First, with the increase in funding we received this year for hazardous fuels and where the majority of our work is in the wild land urban interface, that is going to allow us to expand that and have more acres. For instance, theres 2. 5 million acres as the target for this year, and out of that, 2. 1 of that occurs in the highest priority areas. The second part of it is with finding more use for the biomass and whether its through an integrated wood product that can expand markets or to be able to use it for Energy Conversion and institute that for other energy sources, i think those are the things we have to continue to work on. I think where weve been able to use the authorities that subsidize the transportation of biomass, its allowed for new facilities to be to come online and be able to provide Additional Support for those new businesses, you know and so those are the things we just need to, you know, continue to be able to
The wild land urban interface, that is going to allow us to expand that and have more acres. For instance, theres 2. 5 million acres as the target for this year, and out of that, 2. 1 of that occurs in the highest priority areas. The second part of it is with finding more use for the biomass and whether its through an integrated wood product that can expand markets or to be able to use it for Energy Conversion and institute that for other energy sources, i think those are the things we have to continue to work on. I think where weve been able to use the authorities that subsidize the transportation of biomass, its allowed for new facilities to be to come online and be able to provide Additional Support for those new businesses, you know and so those are the things we just need to, you know, continue to be able to work on and then the program that we have to help folks be able to receive grants to do the Economic Analysis to put a Business Case together, so that they are in a much bette