Essentially we came up with 4 investments strategies thats park safety the first and active living keeping of our citizenry healthy and active and Customer Service. We have 25 with respect to park safety and 25 ftes. We run a high attrition rate thats a Public Safety and while the park patrol positions dont go through the rigorous training as a police theres a high attrition rate not everyone makes it through the probation period we have 18 boots on the ground and were getting a new came to cover others. We are a 247 operation we have temple to 12 which they recalled high needs or Public Safety challenged parks in particular that is two or three park patrol officers at a given time as a fundamental manner its all but impossible to provide the level of service we believe our Park Patrol Service should provide we have a close relationship with the fte but only with their something serious but the park patrol officers enforce the park rules so theyve got more serious issues to tackle from
Permit fees are important it insures a certain level of responsibility when we allow entities to user parks. So we have not i want to go back and is i think public space, Public Recreation is fundamentally important to a lot of other essential services. Were a Public Safety solution when weve got kids active were contributing to coping our city save weve got people in our recreational programming were keeping our city healthy were contributing to other essential serves that get loss in what people consider to be part of the recreation department. I think were a good investment. And more investment in recreational programming can result in fewer back end dollars from our criminal Justice System so more funds would be a good investment in terms of safety i know its been an ongoing discussion around the advantageism we know there are Public Safety challenges and the park patrol there maybe if were lucky we have three or four park officers on doubt at one time and when you look at other ci
And the shipyard project. Just a little bit of a highlight in the budget solution our center has done a good job with our job costs a 350,000 from Workers Compensation its also, we do were pretty aggressive with tracking workmans comp and get back to work early its a do not have reduction in costs and do safety training. So you mentioned two of our Budget Priorities were reinvesting in recreation and we are trying to do our part to work on what we believe is a serious obesity or inactivity epidemic. Were working with the School District and working with lots of partners trying to provide more programming designed to get children and seniors outside and running around. On the Customer Service side one of the enhancement is our Human Resources function. When we did our recreation model its been quite successful a few years ago. We probably after looked the hiring were hiring a lot more people on a temporary basis 80 that have a specific skill and increased our Summer Hiring the model is
Industry which is common that, is career ending. Its going to be examined in a very detailed way. So the usual attack or feeling about our technology is actually the fda is extraordinarily conservative and resistant to allowing these sorts of things through. And, in fact, if i looked at the pressure that the pharmaceutical industry could bring to bear on the fda and sort of the heft of big pharma is far bigger than biotech like monsanto. It really surprises me that you think the fda is captured in the sense that it, you know, will allow junk science as you claim it to be to be the basis for regulatory approvals. And most of the people, those kinds of scientists that i referred to that, you know, they look at that stuff and they would have no problem at all saying its totally garbage because not everybody is captured by the monsantos in the world. Let me get a question in the center here. Get the boom over here. You brought references to high Blood Pressure and autism. I can draw the sa
To be true. Just a clarification. This idea talking points. One of the reasons why some of these things may occur as arguments again and again is that theyre actually right. Okay . There are many people that are saying these things. Theyre not using them as talking points. And this is a possibility to consider the same arguments are made generally with other groups there. Theyre well trodden paths. The second thing is i really think its a little disingeneralous to say you have nothing against genetically modified organism its they were tested enough. I heard the same thing with environmentalism and stuff. Actually, not you personally necessarily, but everything is being done to prevent the kinds of testing that you would require in order to certify that something is safe. It is absolutely impossible to prove that something is safe. You can show that you cant see any damage from it given the kinds of test thats are done. You cannot make that proof. In fact, whether field trials are ripp