During the hearing, she discussed infrastructure projects, highway and rail safety, investment into the theons ports, and discretionary Grant Programs that address the needs of rural and urban areas. Rep. Price the subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Im pleased to kick off our subcommittee hearing season for this and other subcommittees by examining the fiscal year 2021 budget request for the department of transportation. Secretary chao, welcome back and thank you for joining us. Glad to have you here. Infrastructure serves as the foundation for our economy and our quality of life. It facilitates the flow of goods and services, connects people to employment and educational opportunities, and plays a significant role in our nations overall welfare. Theres no question our country requires a massive infusion of investment to repair deficient bridges, restore transit systems to a state of good repair, improve our ports, and build new runways for our airports. We must also make f
Marin county. A trailer fire late this afternoon on highway 37 near lakeville. Cal tran actually decided against towing the trailer, it would be unsafe, so they broke it into pieces and had it hauled away on dump instruction. Chp closed 37 in both directions. You can see photos of the trailer actually on fire there. Thankfully no one was hurt. We are getting new details about the possible motive in a quadruple murder in san jose. The gunman who also killed himself was reportedly frustrated over not being able to bring his relatives to the u. S. From vietnam. Nbc bay area Marianne Favro live in san jose with new developments in this case. Marianne . Reporter well, this is the home where the shootings happened on sunday night. A man who knew the gunman said that he was extremely jealous that his wife was able to bring her relatives here to the u. S. To even live with them from vietnam and he wasnt able to do the same with his own relatives. And in fact, he said that the gunman had talked
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Other recruitment the audit they needed to work within the existing resources they District Attorney have an overall recruitment problem but with only the department attract San Francisco residents to the Fire Department and were very clear we need to work with the existing resources there are many to the best of your knowledge theyre not looking at the existing resources to improve that process as. Yes. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee i want to read the item the chief spoke to the reduction of 477 plus we recommend that you reduce uniform shareholders in 20152016 the department has increased over 7, 8, 9 by over 3 million up to 9. 3 percent increase in 20152016 the department will eye 350,000 for recruitment of new officers the board of supervisors approved a fulltime professional in 20142015 at the department of Human Services and in addition the department is requesting 50 thoughts r thousand dollars for extra coverage during fleet week and finally the budget Analyst Reco
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