Hardest. This action will give them maximum flexibility to use the guard against the virus without having to worry about costs or liability and freeing up state resources to protect the health and safety of the people in their state. The federal government has deployed hundreds of tons of supplies from our National Stocks pile to locations with the greatest need in order to assist in those areas. I approved the state of new yorks request for a major disaster declaration, something which Governor Cuomo has been asking for and which i agree. We had it done in very rapid fashion. We approved this on friday evening and were working very, very hard to get all of these things, not only signed up but completed and finished and win. The request from the state of washington for a major disaster declaration was approved just a little while ago. Went through the process and we moved it very quickly. The request from the state of california was just received. We will have it approved very quickly.
Threatened at this hour. Several homes have been destroyed already. There is still no word on what started the fire. Lets get a look at our first alert forecast. The fire danger is still pretty high further south. Wind speeds not as big a deal. Today, seeds from 10 to 30 miles per hhur. Covering parts of seven colorado, we are still seeing red flag warnings popping up. Yesterday, they were covering a good portion of the state. Today with relative humidity dropping below 15 , it is cooler across southern colorado but still warm enough and dry enough that we do have a few red flag warnings in place. Getting us closer to home, low to mid 50s right now. Its a lot cooler than where we were 24 hours ago. Folder 53 degrees, city park 52 degrees, and in aurora, about 55 degrees right now. Highs this afternoon will climb into the 60s. Low to mid60s hereby about few sours showers. None of this rain is moving far enough south to help with those wildfires but i will show you what it looks like com
There are other bodys like this elsewhere in the state of california . Actually there are not any local Sentencing Commission to my knowledge that exist anywhere else in the United States and we are the first of its kind, local Sentencing Commission, and there are 21 states, that have state level Sentencing Commissions. And so, without the other similar bodies elsewhere and in other county in the state of california who are your partners around the state . That you are working with to help, look at changing state law. Yeah, so, we are working with a Little Hoover Commission and we presented testimony before the Little Hoover Commission in the fall of 2012 and again in the spring of 2013. And they have been on the state level, spear heading the efforts and associated with the creating the state level Sentencing Commission and we are also, working with the senate and assembly and also the Governors Office and to reinforce the value of a state level Sentencing Commission. Great, thank you
Serve we pleasure of the appointing authority and on page, 3, lines, 14 to 18 and we have added the language and regarding the member attendance and the requirement and on page 5, lines 17 through 18, we have amended to indicate that the members will serve for the life of the commission. Thank you. Okay. Very good, thank you for your presentation and your work on the commission. Yes, thank you for your work. And we can go to Public Comment, any member of the public that would like to comment on this item . And seeing none we will close Public Comment. And okay. Great. Mr. Chair, i would love to make a motion to adopt the amendment and move for a positive recommendation. Second. And we will take that. Okay. Without objection. So we will accept the amendment and moving it forward with a recommendation. Thank you. Okay. Next item, please . Item 4, the hearing to consider appointing one member to the Bicycle Advisory Committee, term ending november 19 2016 or for the tenure of the nominati
They would be released on bail for the second, third, fourth and fifth and tried another year later and given probation again too often. This was driving the crime rate. We achieved a lot. Thats why i was willing to support with and support senator durbin committed to reduce the mandatory census. I think we can be smarter about it. I dont have any doubt we can be smarter about it. It would be naive and a big air if we were to think we can just walk away from incarcerating dangerous people. You were worried for your guards. A lot of the people are just dangerous and weve just got to be real careful about that. I think we need to watch the cost. The federal prison system cant be the greatest system, most expensive in the whole world, which is. We just cant. Weve got to watch, look for ways to reduce costs. And weve got to be cautious about adopting the belief that theres been some new Recidivism Program thats going to solve the recidivism rate. If we can reduce it even a little bit, im w