In the Bureau of Reclamation's regional office in Sacramento, there used to be 50 staff handling financial issues alone, and now there's only 12. This is the staff that works to approve contracts, grants, agreements, et cetera. Yet The Bureau of California's Bureau of Reclamation's California office has cut its staff responsible for these aspects of water infrastructure by nearly 80%. Will you commit to look at the number of finance staff at Reclamation's California regional office to ensure that there's sufficient. Sufficient capacity there to meet the administrative needs of our critical water infrastructure and investments? (04:01–04:12)
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Asserts that the Bureau of Reclamation's California office cut water infrastructure staff by nearly 80%.
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