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Text transcript of the video "Green Budget Proposal"
Narrator
says: Maintaining and improving Ron
Sims/King County Executive says: Green infrastructure helps create a
society where economic prosperity, community livability, peoples health and
environmental stewardship are interdependent and synergistic, not separate
and in conflict. This year I am
proposing to invest nearly $20 million to strengthen and improve our green
infrastructure, 20 million dollars. This investment includes preserving more
than 12-hundred acres of open space, making significant improvements to parks
and our trails system and improving important regional facilities. Narrator
says: The 2007 budget proposes to invest 11 and
a half million dollars in conservation futures tax funds on “green
infrastructure” projects such as the proposed Eastside rail trail and
the expansion of Discovery Park with another eight million dollars designated
for property acquisition and redevelopment. Ron
Sims/King County Executive says: Narrator
says: The proposed budget has the support of key
community committees and coalitions. Terry
Lavender/Citizens Advisory Committee for KC Conservation Futures Fund says: I represent a citizens committee from all
over King County, and what we do is we review every one of these
applications, we talk to every parks director, we talk to every basin
steward, we talk to anybody who is part of the application, we visit every
site, so by the time Executive Sims puts these projects in his budget they
have been looked over, they have a high likelihood of success, and you also
have to remember these are smart dollars, in each one of these projects
usually only 50 percent of the funding is coming from this budget source, so
these projects will then go out and seek funding from state agencies, they
will work with partners like cascade land conservancy, they will work to add
another dimension to this funding. Rob
Johnson/Regional Policy Director Transportation Choices Coalition says: It’s indisputable that the
transportation and land use decisions that we make have a significant impact
on our communities health and our communities air
quality. Ron
Sims/King County Executive says: Open spaces and trails are important
pieces of the legacy that we leave our children and their children, much like
roads, utilities and the bricks and infrastructure we’re familiar with
this green infrastructure is important to our economy and our health and
actually makes this area the best place in the world to live. Narrator
says: Executive Sims is scheduled to outline his
complete 2007 budget proposal to the King County Council on October 16th. |
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