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For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing fr...

Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility ...

And has been integral to our efforts to effectively work with the supervisors and their staff. So the summary of local priorities is included in this calendar item and touches on broabroad topics which i wont l out individuals. Theyre familiar in terms of contract vision zero and priority projects. Moving to the state priorities, the proposed 2020 state legislative program, and transportation funding, emersion and parking, land use and housing and sustainability and i would note these are issues carrying over into the second year into january, year two of the current session and the dynamics a...

The proposed 2020 state legislative program, and transportation funding, emersion and parking, land use and housing and sustainability and i would note these are issues carrying over into the second year into january, year two of the current session and the dynamics are different in year two. I think were looking for opportunities to build on some of the conversations that started in year one. But also, perhaps, advance a little more aggressively some of the proposals have been eluded to around vision zero. With that, i will highlight a few of the things in the calendar item. First under trans...

Facing some pretty significant challenges. The first is that we do not have sufficient staffing to realize the benefits of the technology. And the best way i can describe this is i think this thinking was the technology was going to do it for us. And what we are finding is that the technology has incredible potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergency or incident would come in the controllers would industrial on a piece of paper the key concern, th...