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In addition to Thompson, members of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, the Crescent City Mayor and City Council, the Del Norte County Emergency Services Coordinator and the Crescent City Harbor District Commissioners are also expected to attend the briefing and harbor tour.
Thompson issued the following statement regarding the ongoing tsunami threat to North Coast families:
On Thursday Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) announced that the district will receive $724,909 in grant funding to help hire firefighters.
“We just found out about it yesterday so we're all excited,” district Assistant Chief Jim Wright said Thursday, adding, “It was really good news.”
The forum will focus on potential solutions to the country's growing debt, including proposals from the Obama administration's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility.
The meeting will take place in Council Chambers, Eureka City Hall, 531 K Street.
Thompson, co-chair of the Military Veterans Caucus and a veteran of the Vietnam War, sent a bipartisan letter Wednesday urging House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to allow the last surviving American veteran of World War I to lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
Proponents are collecting signatures and drumming up support while local and federal officials are challenging the secrecy of the documents on which the U.S. Postal Service based its closure proposal.
The U.S. Postal Service has refused to make public the documents used to determine that the downtown post office is a financial burden and that it should be consolidated with the post office annex located on the edge of town.
As the top-ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, Thompson will help oversee the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies and departments.
The continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating until a compromise can be reached on a year-long funding bill was passed by a 335-91 vote margin.
It would prevent a looming government-wide shutdown and gives the House, Senate, and White House more time to reach an agreement on a long-term funding bill.
Thompson, who said he had been touring the district during a week-long Congressional recess, presented a 20-minute budget slideshow in an effort to reduce federal fiscal realities to some easily understood statistics and policy choices.
“Everybody's very worried,” said Naomi Fuchs, chief executive officer of Santa Rosa Community Health Centers, a network of eight clinics that serves 34,000 patients. “We hope the funding is restored.”
The Santa Rosa organization would lose $1.5 million, forcing cutbacks in staffing and services, including a planned expansion of medical care and other services to the homeless, Fuchs said.
“Do you know why this wine is so good?” the seven-term Democrat asked a visiting reporter. “Because it was grown by a conscientious, passionate grower.”
And that would be … him.