Perhaps youve seen combustible trees within the Defensible Space of homes and overhanging utility lines along the bosworth entrance to glen canyon. Planting local native plants. Plants in the rec and park Golden Gate Park nursery are overwhelmingly not native to San Francisco. Removing dead, dieing and unhealthy trees from our parks would provide opportunities to plant local native plants in support of the citys biodiversity resolution. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Hello and thank you for that great list of achievements that rec and park is achieving. Im here to talk about another issue i know youll knock out of the park. I want you to try to set a measurable goal of restoring biodiversity in city parks. A recent study in the jec ecological journal mclaren and Golden Gate Park represent ample opportunities to help tackle the biodiversity crisis that youre hearing about so much. The study is titled nonnative plants reduce richness and host lepidoptris plants. Nonnat
Move to approve and seconded. All those in favor . Okay. Thank you. We are now on item 10. Richmond playground im here for discussion and possible action to authorize the recreation and Park Department to enter into related agreements with the San Francisco Parks Alliance under the lets play s. F. Initiative for the renovation of stern grove playground and richmond playground. As we move through the initiative and ill give you the presentation, but i wanted to pause and say that these are the last two related agreements of the initiative, so its a really nice milestone to hit. So just for some quick background, as you know, lets play s. F. Is a Public Private partnership initiated to renovate San Franciscos 13 most deserving playgrounds. On november 13, 2016, the Commission Approved an agreement between the department and the Parks Alliance to accept up to 15 million for lets play s. F. And recommended that the board of supervisors approved the grant, and the board of supervisors gave
Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g
1985 but had been dormant 2002, before its reestablishment in the 2019 National Defense authorization act. This hearing is an hour and 30 minutes. [indistinct conversations] limiting welcome to order. Senator van hollen, if you would like to make your remarks, now is a good time. Thank you. I would like to introduce the nominee for the National Reconnaissance office known as nro. Mr. Chairman, while i cannot say that i am happy to see mr. Scalise leave his current duties in the state of maryland for nasa, i can say with great confidence that the nro would be very fortunate to have him as their director. Since march 2012, he has served nasa goddardf Space Flight Center in agreement greenbelt maryland. We are part of the work he has been doing. Mr. Scalise has worked in a variety of positions at goddard and before that at n. A. S. A. Headquarters. Prior to joining n. A. S. A. In 1987, he served as an officer in the navy working and classified programs and worked as civilian in the Defens
Adjourned. We are getting ready to start the second half, that date night doubleheader. It will extend into the nighttime. I dont think it will. With that, im pleased to call this hearing to order. Welcome all of our witnesses, welcome to guests, and a special thanks to senator capito and our colleagues for being here for this important hearing. Today, we are to discuss the federal Highway Administrations communication of the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act. Its, im enormously proud. I know senator capito is as well. Weve worked with this committee did and literally, laying the foundation for the bipartisan infrastructure defense of. People say to me and im sure they say to you, senator capito, when you travel back to West Virginia around the country, why cant you guys and gals just Work Together to get stuff done . As it turns out, in this committee, thats what we do. We reported out parts of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation unanimously, 20 to 2. Ten