With that being said, my question to you would be what benefits would we be reforming the book and tax code by lowering taxes and tax rates and broadening the tax base on the individual and corporate basis which is revenue neutral as i have indicated . Congressman, when he and other analysts think that sort of tax reform that could you have described could boost Economic Growth. But the metal into the first depends specifically on the tax reform that the congress would consider. And we are standing by to do an Economic Analysis that approaches the tax reform. If you and others on the committee would be interested. If you do these things, im convinced if you put more people than the job market, more taxpayers and more cash flow, it works. We talked a lot about the minimum wage today off and on. My question to be for someone that owns a business, we have raised the minimum wage. How do i pay for that . Congressman cohen as i mentioned in the earlier question we are currently doing the an
To any other project. Were going to ask you to weigh in before we decide on that policy. My second question is probably to mr. Carlin, im curious. What can be done to avoid erosion and problems with the, you know, the rain and the snow melt and everything . Thats a great question. And i mean part of it is well do some slope stabilization to serve our roads so we have access to our facilities but theres a lot of burned soils and thats what the federal Assessment Team has been looking at so theyll be areas where they do expect some erosion so maybe theyre going to put in some control measures or damns to help the flow. The irrigation districts are concerned because the burn streams from our Drinking Water facilities and they were concerned about how much erosion might occur and flush into pedro. Were engaging them in a discussion as well. Can something be built to hold back . They can. There are some measures that they can put into place, these types of bails and things of that nature to
Friendship. Thank you. Thanks very much. Nicole, will you join me up here, please. Nicole has been with with baswsca for 14 years so shes not a new comer to any of this. Weve had a great working relationship since the day she walked in and took the interview. She has the wholesale can you have the measures negotiated two shortage allocated usage. She became very engaged in your Capital Improvement program which then went into the wsip. Incredibly involved through the pri process and she was involved through the legislation in San Francisco. And she was involved in the water agreement and the Water Quality section. She has done virtually and been involved in everything of consequence that bawsca has done. But thats not all. Prior to joining us she worked for east bay mud for nine years. Worked in the that act of the federal act, whatever that was, Central Valley improving project act implementing that and a number of things. A tremendous career span. Shes not a new comer. Shes already c
The committee on Homeland Security will be in order. Without objective, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in resource at any point. Good morning. I would like to begin by saying that my thoughts are with those living in alaska, puerto rico california and oregon who are experiencing disasters. Over the weekend, alaskans felt the impact of a typhoon. Puerto rico was hit with Hurricane Fiona. Nearly five years to the date since Hurricane Maria. Meanwhile, americans in the west are dealing with wildfires and record breaking temperatures. As the nation continues to cope with simultaneous disasters, as we recognize National Preparedness month todays hearing on preparedness under the limbs is the preparedness and resilience of Critical Infrastructure and particularly Water Infrastructure hits close to home. My community of jackson mississippi suffered serious flooding last month, leveller of a water pumping station eyelash more than 100,000 of my constituents without clean wat
For the plans with blue. I imagine if our water were to run out, this is the realization of what happens to a community that runs out of water. There is no way to survive this our future. Imagine our wells drying up as a job given youngster food, im afraid that we may eventually run out of water here here, or skips. And what if the fight for water turns into war . Some parts of the world are going to become on livable because of rising. Keep your big big here. The water crisis is the tail of never ending. Missouri water is disappearing everywhere. That suggests a huge global migration. Think the site is need water to survive. Could International Conflicts will become inevitable . Um yeah, on this mention mit the boss. From a global perspective, the human kinds approach to water is potentially lethal to song leaving when dia, once politics is dictated by the fight for water, then god help us canada. And scott, me, we are used to having plenty of water. But thats changing thanks to the C