Item 2. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up on to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commissioners as a whole. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary. Is there any member of the public that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3. Approval of minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes from february 12, 2020. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment regarding the minutes of our last meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Fellow commissioners, what say you . I move to approve. Thank you. Is there a second . Yes, second. Thank you. We have a motion by commissioner cleveland a
[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
Item 2. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up on to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commissioners as a whole. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary. Is there any member of the public that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3. Approval of minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes from february 12, 2020. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment regarding the minutes of our last meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Fellow commissioners, what say you . I move to approve. Thank you. Is there a second . Yes, second. Thank you. We have a motion by commissioner cleveland a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
Item 2. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up on to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commissioners as a whole. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary. Is there any member of the public that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3. Approval of minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes from february 12, 2020. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment regarding the minutes of our last meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Fellow commissioners, what say you . I move to approve. Thank you. Is there a second . Yes, second. Thank you. We have a motion by commissioner cleveland a