On a frozen road traveling through the high plateaus of kyrgyzstan a small truck is on the move. In these extreme conditions the truck is beginning a long journey to deliver mandarin oranges to remote villages. The fruit is highly prized as a symbol of good fortune in neighboring tajikistan. But to get to the villages the drivers must risk their lives on a dangerous road. Located in the heart of central asia. Is kurdistan 2nd largest city. After nightfall to drivers stock up on supplies. They bought expensive chinese men. Durbins from a local trader and hope to sell them for a small profit in neighboring town just down. The truck is loaded with cases full of the fruit. Of. The drivers wrap the mandarins in a blanket to protect them from the cold. They top off their load with a few sheets of plywood. The loading completed they head off into the night. So. You should you sure are you sure it. Is the driver and mechanic who won the senior of the 2 companies. They pray for a safe journey a
Representatives of the Auto Industry and an Environmental Group testified. Good morning. The joint subcommittee will now come to order. The chair to recognize himself for fibers for an Opening Statement. Good morning. I would like to think i witnesses for with us this morning. Today we are here to discuss with stakeholders the corporate average fuel Economy Program, or cafe, at the national highway Transportation Safety administration, and the Greenhouse Gas emissions standards at the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency that govern fuel economy standards. Nhtsas cafe program was established by congress in 1975. The goals of the program are to improve vehicle fuel economy, reduce oil consumption, and secure the Nations Energy independence. The cafe program has undergone major changes and modifications in the past four decades, both because of political and economic forces. Less than 10 years ago, and on top of the cafe program, the epa standards were created to incentivize the product
Report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The president did sign a continuing resolution for a twoyear budget framework into law and that will allow us to not have a Government Shutdown until fiscal year 2019. There are specifically in the measure the funding for extending the Childrens Health Insurance Program for an addition four years. Reauthorizing funding for more than 7 billion to Community Health centers that includes the departments dollars for homeless services. It provides 6 billion dedicated opioid treatment and Mental Health service and funding to National Institutes of health and the child Home Visiting program. We are still tracking the 340b issue as well as the fact we know potential of cuts and future cuts in Services Including in cdc, samis a, nih and other areas and keep you informed as we know. Senator scott wiener announced a new conservatorship for addiction and homelessness as part of the definitions. We hope that we are in support of this with the senator and we can
Sufficient funding we wont have to come back for an ask. It will be a process well have to work through and already started with u. C. So that process is going to be some added layers of oversight and collaborative financial management. So well be looking at enhanced process to evaluate whether those need to be refilled. Well be looking at opportunities both now and through the e. H. R. Revenue process and the fees woul offset the need for an affiliation agreement. We are going to be looking at whether theres opportunities to streamline consolidate, identify efficiency in the affiliation costs and the below the line items in the agreement. Theres layers in this but theyll be putting in plis a process well put through the next 18 months and beyond to make sure were including the same level of i guess certainly or oversight in the projections for the affiliation agreement that we are in other items were bringing before the commission and the Mayors Office and fiveyear Financial Planning
Continuing to create the modules. Theres also other areas in terms of payments where we have manual reconciliation in part due to the conversion issues and were reviewing the entries and making sure theyre all appropriate. And want to make sure we have all the staff for a yearend close which happens in august, september and october of 2018. The budget proposes to create a pool of staffing and allows us to give support for our operations and also proposes for consulting for us as well as a work order through the Controllers Office who can help implement better interfaces and modules for the financial system. Then the last emerging need is related to the transfer Emergency Services for our department. As you know, weve been planning the transition for years and it became effective july 1. Prior to the transition we did a study on the staffing and program and there were significant issues and there was an additional need for increased analysis and metrics, policies and procedures and prop