Councilmember Strauss proposes amendment to Every Child Ready Initiative

Fully restoring the environmental education program would cost the median homeowner about $2 a year.

In exchange, we can guarantee our city's kids and families continue to receive the nature, education, and outdoor experiences that make our city such a great place to live.

Building strong connections between our kids and their natural environment is priceless.

Our work inspires children, sparks joy and wonder, supports budding scientists, teaches empathy and care for our green world and for one another.

We go down on the beach, get our feet and hands wet, look around, and so these kids are having a full-body, hands-on nature immersion experience.

It's so exciting for them.

As we all know, watching the federal government, when programs are closed down, they are more costly to reopen.

So it's important that we're able to keep this institution of educating youth through using volunteers established in our city.