[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold challenges and with todays hearing we can be prepared to answer the call to Racial Equity and justice in education. I want to note this hearing marks the committees first fully remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations. To date we will examine how covid19 pandemic has directly impacted his state and local government revenue and how projected state and local government shortfalls to further exacerbate educational inequities rooted in a with the inequities rooted a
Bemembers and witnesses will responsible for on muting themselves when they are recognized to speak or when they seek recognition. Tesch pursuant to host regulation 95, members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time they are in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera. Remote an entirely hearing, as a result the hearing room is closed. Withs who choose to sit their individual devices in the hearing room must use headphones to avoid feedback or distortion resulting for more than one person on the floor speaking. They are expected to adhere to social distancing and health care guidelines, including the ,se of masks, gowns gloves and wiping down areas. Not ollcall is whenever there is an official proceeding with low participation, a clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the proceeding. At this time, i ask the clerk to call the roll. Chairman . Present. Misses david . Present. Mr. . Mr. Courtney . Present. Miss fudge . P
Than face the possibility of an armed protest and Death Threats against democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer yes the armed protesters who made headlines back in early may for their want to be red dawn wolverines style approach to 21st century white right wing activism right in the state of michigans elected officials so deeply that they decided to stay at home rather than legislate thus preventing every taxpaying resident of the state of michigan a smoothly functioning government in a time of crisis all because they were asked to stay indoors during a pandemic seems the taliban really only cares about their own rights and nobody elses meanwhile way down in the great state of texas there is another protest involving weapons taking place but in this one the protesters are unarmed and are actually calling for safety. Over selfishness a key legacy of the intercept reports that workers of lockheed martins plant in Fort Worth Texas have protested the reopening of their personal the saying th
Miss collins and mr. Clerk miss lam . Miss lopez . Vicepresident lopez here and miss collins is here as well. Clerk okay, thank you, thank you. Mr. Moliga is going to be late. Miss norton. Commissioner norton here. Clerk mr. Sanchez . President sanchez here. Clerk thank you. Thank you. So i need to have our translators and our interpreters, announcers, at this moment. Good afternoon. The unit foid School District will provide free chinese and spanish simultaneously interpretation throughout the board meeting. If you need chinese interpretation please dial 14848543328, and 721609895, pound. If you need spanish interpretation please dial 13193829676. Pin 665996966, pound. This message will repeat in spanish and chinese. [speaking foreign language]. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese language] thank you very much. Thank you. If you are not speaking at the moment, please mute yourself. All right, thank you. And, again, just welcome, everybody and thank you for everything that youre doing
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