Leaders like jan morrison and so many that are here today, the honoree we have chosen is a amazing champion fighting hunger and food insecurety. Her name is maria stokes. I think the honoree for richmond is such a great example of a ordinary person who does extraordinary things every day. When i see her riding to work or the family as well, she is a amazing person and a San Francisco resident since 19 [inaudible] school edge children that go to argon elementary. She works as chunication director for project open hand, a amazing Non Profit Organization that provided over 1 million new trish ameals with love and i think that is a common theme within one year. It is a common theme of food is love and the love that is provided with every single meal, every 1 million per year who is with love to the sick and elderly neighbors in San Francisco. Project open hand has been one of the key leaders in challenging hunger and food insecurety in the city with the Food Security task force. In 2014 i
Screeria nigeria. A look at two Agency Budget requests, first fee mas budget then a hearing on the department of transportations 2016 budget. And later Border Patrol officials discuss threats and security along the u. S. canadian border. Next fema administrator craig fugate renting his agencys 2016 Budget Proposal to a Senate Appropriations budget committee. It is for disaster radio preparedness and resiliency. From capitol hill. This is about an hour and a half. I call this hearing to order for the dhs appropriations subcommittee. Today will be id like to welcome administrator fugate, administrator of fee ma. I appreciate very much you being here, also senator shaheen appreciate you being here as well. Were here to discuss the fiscal 2016 budget for your agency. Before we get into the substance of your budget id like to take a moment and thank you for sending roy wright to fargo several weeks ago. It was very helpful and actually will pertain or his visit there pertains to one of the
That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Programs and again as we see these threats emerging, because this is dual use, we do have capability, we always go to the consequences, what are the things we need to do if that happens. From a lot of Emergency Management preparedness grants which i again support this administrations recommendation and committee has done a lot of work there, those preparedness grants, those are some of the dollars they can be using to develop this community plans. There are other programs that are not part of fema
Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe rooms for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce futu
And make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe roads for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce future costs and potential disruptions to disaster. This is very much in our predisaster mitigation looking at it from outcomes that are based upon buy