You are watching American History tv come all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In its early years, colorado was inhabited by an eclectic group of people, from law men to ranchers to those looking to strike it rich gold mines. In her book, the bad old days of colorado, randi samuelsonbrown examines the beginning of colorados history and the characters that helped shape this state. Thank you so much for joining us tonight and continuing to get our program via video since the museum is still mostly closed to the public. For those of you who dont know me, my name is megan and im the Visitors Services and interpretation coordinator at Golden Museum and park. I plan the Adult Program and other functions of the museum. Randi hascited that joined us. Let me throw a curveball to her presentation and say we are now doing it online. Thank you so much for joining us and i will turn it over to you. Randi great. Let me share the screen and make sure weve got everything right. Thanks, everyone for c
Reporter its sort of a food chain of problems. Yesterday we heard about the states budget problems and today we are going to talk about the county. Who do you think theyre going to go to for help . Were looking at deficits between 10 and 20 million over the next two years, the timing is a little uncertain at this point but at least 10 million next year. Reporter with mauldin many businesses still shuttered putting sales tax revenue on its own kind of lock down, marin is just another county looking at a steep and sudden budget shortfall print the different size of the counties makes a difference in terms of total number but i think relatively speaking we are all in the same boat. Reporter sonoma county, 15 million, napa 20 million, alameda 140, santa clara, 285 million and then there is the city and county of sanford cisco. We anticipate a 1. 1 to 1. 7 billion budget deficit paid reporter that means counties will be lining up for help from the state. The current Budget Proposal reflects
Foerng, everybody. Thank you so much for coming. Im Chrissie Julian ob the executive director of big citys Health Coalition. I want to say a thank you to representative roy allards office for hosting us. While she captor be here today i want to thank her for being a champion of Public Health. I want to thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner in planning the event. The big citys Health Coalition was founded in 2002 and is forum for leaders of americas largest metropolitan Health Departments to Exchange Strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. We have nearly 30 we have 30 member jurisdictions whose Health Departments serve nearly 62 million, or one in five americans. And were lucky to have two member jurisdictions here today. You all have bioss in front of you. Im not taking you have too much time for me but i want to introduce the panel and then turn it over to them. So in the order which theyl
Bourg, strategic development, Wabtec Corporation. Chris matthews, assistant Vice President , Network Control systems, bnsf of railway, and jim derwinski, chief executive officer and executive director of metro. Todays hearing will evaluate progress in implementation positive train control, ptc, and examine potential challenges in meeting the final implementation deadline of december 31, 2020. As recent Committee Hearings have highlighted, ptc is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents, including overspeed derailments, such as the tragic derailment in dupont, washington in 2017, as well as preventing traintotrain collisions. Ptc enforcement and implementation act, passed by congress and signed into law by president obama in october 2015, required railroads to implement ptc by december 31, 2018, however it allowed a railroad to apply for an extension of up to 24 months if, and only if, a railroad met important milestones. I am pleased to say that under secretary
Expected to hear from rail representatives to prevent train accidents. Good afternoon. Today the committee gathers for a hearing to examine the next steps in positive train control implementation. Im glad to convene this hearing on this important issue with my friend and colleague Ranking Member senator cantwell. I want to thank our panel of witnesses for appearing. Mr. Ron batori, administrator of the railroad administration, susan, director of infrastructure, u. S. Government accountability office. Bob, Vice President of Strategic Development web tech corporation. Chris matthews assistant Vice President of Network Control systems. And jim, chief executive officer and executive director of metro. Todays hearing will evaluate progress, implementation of positive train control, ptc and examine the potential challenges in meeting the final implementation deadline of december 31st, 2020. As recent Committee Hearings have highlighted ptc is an Important Technology which has the ability to