Commissioner brackett . Roll foz the next order of business is item number two, announcements. The next regularly scheduled Commission Meeting will be held on tuesday, august 6, 2019 at 1 00 p. M. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person s responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each item unless the commissioner has a shorter item. Members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a secret card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. Item number three, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reported actions. Item number five, matters of new bus
Commissioner brackett . Roll foz the next order of business is item number two, announcements. The next regularly scheduled Commission Meeting will be held on tuesday, august 6, 2019 at 1 00 p. M. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person s responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each item unless the commissioner has a shorter item. Members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a secret card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. Item number three, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reported actions. Item number five, matters of new bus
Welcome. Orning and the subcommittee on Higher Education and workforce investment will come to order. We are happy you are here. I know a quorum is present. I want to ask can sense they be permitted to participate in todays hearing with the understanding your questions will come after all members have completed their questions. The committee is eating to hear testimony on engines of economic mobility. The Critical Role of Community Colleges, historically lacked minorities serving and institutions preparing students for success. ,ursuant to Committee Rules Opening Statements are limited to the chair in the Ranking Member and this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. We will examine the Critical Role of historically black colleges and universities, Tribal Colleges and universities, and committee colleges in providing low income students and students o
Good afternoon chair fewer, members of the committee. Kate hour. Im happy to be here with you today to present d. H. R. s budget on behalf of Micky Callahan who was unable to attend today. I would like to thank our team at d. H. R. For their work to advance our mission which is to use fair and equitable practices to hire, develop and support a highly qualified workforce. I would like to thank all the individuals who were preparing the budget every year in the Controllers Office and mayors Budget Office and the board of supervisors and budget annalists as well as linda wong and john gibner who are here with and you support the work and effort. As i mentioned a moment ago, our mission is here to use fair and equitable practices to hire, develop and support a highly qualified workforce. We have a fiveyear Strategic Plan that guides our work and incorporates the goals that you see below which i will not spend a lot of time on today. Over all, ive provided you with a summary of our budget w
Staff to address what weve identified as a challenge in the way that employees feel about their work here. As part of the mayors executive directive on a diverse workforce, she ask we work with h. R. C. And convene a stakeholder working group. And part of that working group, one of the things we heard was i have a complaint about my working environment. I bring it to e. E. O. But its not an e. E. O. Complaint. I just have a bad boss or bad coworker or a team dynamic that is not positive. And so, that will focus on Equity Inclusion and a sense of belonging is really about trying to address that gap between complaints that are legitimate complaints but are not e. E. O. And we need pay Better Process for managing those. As well as digging into the data that exists so we can understand where we may have the dis parties we needs to address. Thats one component of the new staff. The staff person to focus on Disaster Preparedness working closely with the department of Emergency Management aro