Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i
More people being willing to step up because they are seeing management taking action. What happened to him . Did you discipline him . He was going to be subject to discipline. We were preparing a disciplinary action for him for his omission of action based on the report in 2013. In consultation with the regional director who is his line supervisor and the Deputy Director in washington, the three of us unanimously agreed the grand canyon needed new leadership immediately. That he was incapable even though he has performed well on other issues, he was incapable of leading the change we needed at the grand canyon. So as a senior executive, he is subject to being transferred and i told him i was transferring him out of the grand canyon immediately and he chose to retire. So you did offer him another position. I did. And how reckon recognize the gentlewoman from new jersey. I really dont need know where to begin here. The picture that is painted from the questions and discussion and answer
Well. Thank you. Director jarvis, the information that i have is that the eeoc function or functionary still reports three levels below you. So when did you actually did you change that reporting level . And when . I moved it up. No, it has been moved up. But i agree with you and this is an issue that ive discussed with our hr, that i believe that in order to really meet the standards expected of us in eeoc and particularly in light of these new issues that have come out that clearly there is the potential for Sexual Harassment to occur in other pockets in the National Park service i think the eo office needs to report directly to me and to meet the standards which are regular reporting to me and to the leadership, having add rvocates that represent the gediversity the nation and a regular understanding at the Senior Leadership about these issues. So i think theres change afoot. May i just bring something to sure go ahead. Of the report that was submitted on 4 20 15 indicates that each
Saying we need a bigger coast guard, how do you feel about the resource picture now that the fy 17 budget request is in . You mention several of the new major investment strings underway. The growth of the structure and the readiness picture. What most challenges you at this point and executing all of that . I am immensely pleased with our acquisition budget. On the other side we have our operations in maine is, what our operations and maintenance, would cost to do operations and people from under that funding portfolio as well. Were not keeping pace. In fact were fact were not even keeping pace with budget control funding levels. Where funded below that level to sustainer operation so its great that were modernizing, the sustaining piece is still a bit of a challenge for me. Thats work that i need to do in demonstrating how critical that is because lets face it, ive been to enough commissioning ceremonies now more than i have decommissioning ceremonies, thats a good thing, more births