We sometimes go to conferences on water and sewer. Oh, my gosh. There are such conferences and those are real needs, but they dont center the nice pictures of families and things like that. They do meet and talk about these just like this and cant talk about public 5t part nership or towerism dollars or raising grants and opportunities for grants. We have that in common. The point is, i think there is great reason for optimism. The creativity you hear for where the money is and the opportunity, it beats a lot of other programs and the needs out there, so i would say be in good cheer about it, it is always tough out there but the opportunity are far greater because we have a product people can see, touch and feel and enjoy. There is a a constituency [inaudible] that will pass the sewer bill [inaudible] the parks bill is approved. Parks are wrun of the things that bring in Economic Development like the water fall park. Our river vision park brings a estimated 10 billion of investment in
Thore support of the greater and greening conference and todays forum. They are a leader in play ground manufacturing lands scape [inaudible] enhance childrens lives by foster and creating inspiring play experiences while haun aing the environment. Please welcome pat [inaudible] prez dntd of landscape structures thank you mark. Ee are proceed to bree a Silver Sponsor of greater and greener 2015. As this conference brought together leader professionals, advocates, funders and inovateers to discuss something near and dear to our hearts at landscape structures, parks, green spaces and communities. As the president i had the tubt to meet with many professionals arounds the cuntsry and learn about what they are doing to create great communities. Im happy to report that like you using parks and playgrounds to improve the quality of life fl their stit phrns. As champions for park and play ground these spaces help foret economy, public helths and environmental sustainability. By working with a
Meant for 40 years people who live said in greenville all their lives didnt know or remember we had a water fall. We lost the entire institutional memory that the fall existed, the falls that was once the center piece of the city so it was a tough sale. We basically said to people we propose to spends 13 Million Dollars to build a beautiful park and public garden around a water fall you have never seen, trust us. And they didnt. Mr. May,or, i waited until i was reelected to take this on. It was a tough sale because people didnt know the water fall was there. We were tibel remove the bridge and i have the next picture and created falls park. You only see a slice of it here, but the is a beautiful pedestrian suspension bridge where there was once a 4 lane high way. There is about 20 acres in the park t. Is a lush guardsen and what you dont see and do see people and they enjoy it all the time, it is the center piece, but what you dont also see in the picture just a few yards from main str
clapping congratulations and thank you all families and community for coming harry truman says the buck stops here and think they know what it means running cities, establishing budget and setting priorities and well make sure be hear about the priorities today. Issues arond innovation Funding Partnership and maybe well get into hot topics like dog walking. I introduce our mayors panel i would like to thank landscape structures for thore support of the greater and greening conference and todays forum. They are a leader in play ground manufacturing lands scape [inaudible] enhance childrens lives by foster and creating inspiring play experiences while haun aing the environment. Please welcome pat [inaudible] prez dntd of landscape structures thank you mark. Ee are proceed to bree a Silver Sponsor of greater and greener 2015. As this conference brought together leader professionals, advocates, funders and inovateers to discuss something near and dear to our hearts at landscape structures,
Spots. But sunshine and warmer weather is on the way. Good morning this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. Well get the sunshine and warmer weather here. Meteorologist bill henley is here with the first alert forecast. A chilly day today. Good morning. Temperatures are drop right now. And its before everything dried out from last night. You can see its completely clear. A great shot of the moon this morning. Its clear skies but with clear skies this time of the year and dry air moving in thats when temperatures get cold and thats what we are seeing in pottstown, allentown and read right at the freezing mark. Trenton is at 33 degrees. And its falling. Maybe icy in some areas. Those puddles are icing up especially in the suburbs. 32 degrees at 6 00 in the city. 39 by 9 00 and enough sunshine that will be into the upper 40s and climbing at lunchtime today. Your hour by hour forecast when i come back in ten minutes. But right now well check in with first alert traffic