Potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergency or incident would come in the controllers would industrial on a piece of paper the key concern, they would dispatch somebody to respond to it. Our goal was to go from a call center to a Service Management center. But a few things happened. The first thing is the call volumes increased. This is very good news. It means it is now easier with the technology for our operatorses to reach the control sent center and to be able to ask for help and support. The second thing is the time for call increased. We now have the ability to track all this information digitally. But the Digital Information takes more time to enter than just scribbling on a piece of paper. But our Staffing Levels for various reasons remained relatively flat. So weve taken the same number of people. They are now managing more calls
Legitimate concerns about this project. Personally i would absolutely favor looking into evening matters, metering spots that arent metered right now and speak directly to the businesses. Dont assume that the city planning model will work for these businesses speak to our friend and to her other businesses there and see what is it that you need. It may be they need a couple of pickup zones because they do a lot of delivery business. Okay. It may mean they need 30minute parking. I dont know what it is. But lets found out specifically what her business and the other affected businesses need and try to manage that. Finally, theres been some discussion about the length of the pilot. I would like to ask you to right now is there any serious downside to making this a ninemonth or 1246 month pilot. I realize 12month pilot. I realize we want to go through different life cycles, different conditions so we know that the safest is for cyclists and others but it seems to me that nine months or 12
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret
Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from new york, mr. Engel to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 2744 on which yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 2744, a bill to authorize the administrator of the United States agency for International Development to prescribe the manner in which programs of the agency are identified overseas and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ]
The house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain. Let us pray. God, our father, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house as they gather another week in the capital and the graces needed to attend to the issues of the day with wisdom. The results of their effort might benefit citizens of our nation and the world. We also ask your blessing leading into this weekend, upon a world both celebrating sport with the womens world cup competition, and facing heightened, even dangerous tensions in the middle east. Spirit best of the human be manifest in all the actions undertaken by those in positions of responsibility. Be for yourdone greater honor and glory. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from New Hampshire, mr. Pappas. Mr. P