More serious or responsibilities to manage the land. With new growth and hopefully now families moving in and our growing senior population, the demand for Recreation Services is as intense asench. We want to improve cust mur service and efficiency and accountsability. We should be the most technologically probust Parks Department in america. As some that interfaced with our system probably can attest we are not there yet, but it is where we need to go. Our failing play Ground Campaign presents with a opportunity. A task force following 15 and a half millin in public funds. A Community Task force identified our 13 worst play ground in the city and they are based on old strategies of pressure treated lamentber and cca with traces of arsenic and our mission is replace all of them. Meeting the challenges of growth by acquiring new parks. We have been before you quite a bit in the last year or 2 with great news. A opportunity to aquer nob nub the fran cyst co reservoir and [inaudible] visi
See the basket ball [inaudible] of note is the 27 recreation centers. We have a very very robust recreation program. There are uben Parks Departments athround country that have got out of the business of recreation and out source to partners. We are not doing that. Aquatic, out door reck riation and everyone has a opportunity to play in our system. One of the things that im most proud about since our team has been together at reck and park is the Scholarship Fund increased from 80 thousand a year to over wn. 1 million a year. We subsidize over wn. 1 million a year in free or subsidized programs and it operates as free or reduced lurch program at the school district. Taking a quick look at the 14 15 budget, about our operating budget is about 143 millions [inaudible] it ebbs and flows dependent on when we issue new debt and our bonds and receive grants and receive philanthropic gifts, so you will not see a logical line in the caltle budget. We are very blessed through the 10 year capita
Her 1yearold baby girl alive in the backseat. Now officers from two agencies did the shooting. The secret service and the Capitol Police. Was it justifiable . D. C. Police are investigating the case. Live on capitol hill, pat collins, news 4. Police today in new york and connecticut trying to learn more about this miriam carey. Before her family arrived in the district officers questioned them in their home in brooklyn, new york. Police removed several items from her apartment. Neighbors were shocked someone in their building had a connection to the case they were hearing about in d. C. You dont believe something this huge is sleeping on the other side of the wall from you. Federal Law Enforcement sources say she spoke to her mom on the phone and drove straight here from connecticut yesterday. There are a lot of questions about the chase. How did officers let her drive away speeding from the white house to the capitol . Also, new questions about the Communications Breakdown between the