The achairman ajit pai greeting witnesses as the meeting is set to get under way shortly. Well have live allday coverage here on cspan3. Welcome. December 2017 meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Madam secretary, turn the floor over to you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you, and good morning commissioners. The purpose of the federal Communications Commission open meeting is for the commission to consider the matters that have been duly posted in accordance with the government and the sunshine act. As provided in the commissions rules, members of the public are invited to observe, which includes attending, listening, and taking notes, but does not include participating in the meeting, or addressing the commission. Actions that purposely interfere or attempt to interfere with the commencement or conduct of the meeting, or inhibit the audiences ability to observe or listen to the meeting, including attempts by audience members to address the commission while the m
And we have mr. Wooten here who presented on the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thanks for having us. Matt wooten, vicechair of the Shelter Monitoring Committee here with ramon, lacayo, the secretary. Usually we hand you this report and read it to you. Today i would like to do something a little different, if that is okay . I want to take this time to bring to your attention as of november 23rd, all of the seats on the committee will be expiring. Sadly a vast majority of the people in their seats will not seek reappointment. I am one of those people. This means there will be no quorum. And the committee will be ineffective. I bring this to your attention because im hopeful that rules will prioritize appointments beginning in january, especially prioritizing spanishspeaking appointees and providers. This is not to be considered a walkout or show frustration, but simply our terms are ending and we no longer have the time to commit to th
In addition to the whole board vacating at once, there are a number of additional concerns that we have. How do we the city, maintain a committee of able and committed members . As it stands the committee is all volunteer. The workload as of now are far too labor intensive to be sustained by a volunteer board. So as you just suggested perhaps staggering terms would be an excellent idea. But this is just one issue. The officers have collectively identified a number of issues and largescale questions, but i believe were at a point that some changes need to be made. First the committee need goes through some major changes such as do the standards of care continue to make sense at this time . They did at one time. But it might not make sense anymore and how can we as a Committee Without teeth enforce standards of care . How can we expect shelters to meet standards of care when they are unfunded . And what is a just penalty for noncompliance . Certainly it doesnt make sense to fine somebody
There is any legally permissible way to do this we should move forward with the appointment. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Well continue this item until a later portion of the meeting. At this time i will call item 4. Item no. 4 hearing to the quarterly reports of the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Thank you. And we have mr. Wooten here who presented on the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thanks for having us. Matt wooten, vicechair of the Shelter Monitoring Committee here with ramon, lacayo, the secretary. Usually we hand you this report and read it to you. Today i would like to do something a little different, if that is okay . I want to take this time to bring to your attention as of november 23rd, all of the seats on the committee will be expiring. Sadly a vast majority of the people in their seats will not seek reappointment. I am one of those people. This means there will be no quorum. And the committee will be ineffective.
Thinking about anything innovative. They are not even get paid enough to go to the site visits and that is a problem and i will also throw on top of this is the chair of the Shelter Monitoring Committee, they went to that shelter twice. That is what it looks like. They went to that shelter twice and couldnt even inspect the shelter. So its really like corruption, a shelter a head person for the shelter an executive person for the shelter gets on the Shelter Monitoring Committee and then they have this whole thing where you cant even inspect their shelter. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed of the supervisor campos. Thank you, madame chair and thank you for the presentation. I think that we have to heed the advice given and i look forward to working with supervisor kims office to see where were going from here. The way i see it its not about lack of innovation or willingness or desire and i think we can Work Together with th