Captioning performed by vitac families in Rural Communities are also concerned about access to health care. Especially with the Mental Health and Opioid Crisis taking a devastating toll on small towns. We address this head on through expanded telemedicine to provide critical treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness. To ensure that every family has safe Drinking Water, we prioritized rural Water Infrastructure investments for small towns. Rural communities need strong locally owned businesses and good highpaying jobs. Rural Small Business investments are critical to creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and revitalizing main street. In michigan where we make things and grow things, agriculture and manufacturing are both at the heart of the economy. Thats why we created opportunities to support bio based manufacturing. Companies are creating new products from americangrown crops. We also provided permanent funding for value added agriculture grants to help far
There are issues about what we can do to help communities at high risk with relocation. What we can do to support communities that will be on the receiving end, they will need Financial Support as well. With that i will conclude those are some of the key ways in which i see the report we put out in september translating into the us context, thank you. I think youre absolutely right. Its very clear that awareness at the city, state and tribal level has been increasing. Mayors are on the front line of responding to all these extreme events and if you look at the burgeoning of resilience officers, the urban resilience network, there is a hunger for best practices, more data and to be able to share things with each other quickly. Our last speaker is Leonardo Martinez diaz and he directs the Sustainable Finance center at the resources institute. Previously we all worked at the department of treasury, Deputy Assistant secretary for energy and environment, he also worked on climate finance in
Panel and will be learning about the Global Commission of a global call for leadership. The urgency of Climate Change may feel more acute but the issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated in 1988 addressing Climate Change is a moral imperative. Many scientists m Public Policy experts have been working on the issue proposing solutions i hope what were actually seeing his momentum to act there is some evidence this is the case last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee that probably would not have been the case a few years ago in Speaker Pelosi and the House Select Committee is another example. As we know now that inaction on Climate Change makes it harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now to contribute to that momentum constantly reinforce it. So we can inform policymakers of the best and latest data and best practices to share Lessons Learned to help them understand the urgency to make meaningful progress to address Climate Change. All we ne
Housing units. Senator mike crapo of idaho chairs the banking, housing and urban affairs committee. This hearing will come to order. Today, the committee will receive testimony from leaders in the Housing Community on bipartisan opportunities this congress to expand access to Affordable Housing, to improve the safety conditions within current federallyassisted housing, and to consider how we might better target some of our existing Housing Resources to meet unaddressed need. Welcome to our witnesses, and thank you for taking the time to be with us today for this important discussion. Joining us today are ivory mathews, interim executive director of the Housing Authority of columbia, South Carolina; mark yost, president and chief executive officer of the skyline champion corporation; and peggy bailey, Vice President for housing policy at the center on budget and policy priorities. For purposes of todays hearing, we are focused on examining three bipartisan pieces of legislation in parti
Please call the roll. [roll called] this is a recreation and Park Commission meeting of october 17, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. We kindly remind you to turn off Electronic Devices and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed. If you would like to speak on any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to first floor and are not available for use. Please make your way to the closest area of refuge across the hall in the mens restroom. Let them know where you are and they