[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, good morning pete the subcommittee will come to order the chair recognizes himself an Opening Statement. Good morning welcome back before the subcommittee. Assistant secretary davidson the National Telecommunication Information Administration has been very busy since the last time you appeared for us and may. In a june nci or allocated the money for the broadbent equity access to the states. This amounts to 42. 5 billion dollars. Since then states have submitted their fiveyear action plan the infrastructure at law strict requirements such as ensuring funding achieves universal connectivity and prohibiting great regulations. I am concerned some of the state plans are calls for more federal funding required by the law and blatant efforts by states to engage in rate regulation of broadband services. Thankfully and cia has rejectedt his and his attempt including for my home state of ohio. Though it overrode existing networks in opti
Brief update on where we are in implementation. We started back in january. Our organization was about 30 people, we are now upwards of 60. All to support the work that meta is doing, that Mission Promise neighborhood is doing. We spend a lot of time hiring, interviewing and compiling a great team that is working hard together. We have contract with our partners. We had a fantastic backpack give away at the high school with the mayors office. We had our launch where a lot of city leadership came out, leader pelosi came out and we had secretary donovan come out and we also had some leadership from doe come visit us. Our data team has been working hard on data discovery assessing the performance of or assessing Performance Measures for all our organizational partners and understanding how they collect data. Weve also been focused on building our collaborative. We do want to see this go beyond 5 years. We think it critical and weve engaged with cutf, with koretzsky, chase and we are build
Year to ensure that we are one of four cities in california that was awarded this incredible grant well be hearing about in the next hour 1 2. I plan to touring the this time. I look forward to seeing how these federal dollars are being put to use by the collaborations that well be hearing about today. I think its important that when we think about the City District select committee that we really think about how we can strengthen the relationships between the citys resources and our schools. These are all our families whether they are constituents coming to city hall or they are coming to the schools for their education services. We need to figure out ways to better serve our parents. We are really excited to hear the presentation today and want to create more awareness around this program and see how we can have a best successful partnership. This is something we want to sustain beyond the 5 years and we have to start having that discussion now to ensure that we are able to commit to
The cal academy looks than that. What other events take place here . We do Corporate Events that night on a regular basis. But nightlife is your best bet to come in as a regular person pharmacy the academy at night, and visit with friends. Calacademy. Org nightlife. We have details for the next few weeks. You can get tickets online in advance or at the door. Thank you so much. Thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. Good afternoon to everyone that is here today. Welcome to the city and School District select committee meeting. Commissioner mendoza has called for this hearing. I will turn it over to her. To get some background i want to get to what is dedicated over the last year to ensure that we are one of four cities in california that was awarded this incredible grant well be hearing about in the next hour 1 2. I plan to touring the this time. I look forward to seeing how these federal dollars are being put to use by the collaborations that well be hearing about today. I th
A little bit of money from hud, cdfi and the department of labor and we are bringing those funds together and taking them to the next level to our own programs. Here, i wont run through all of our amazing partners doing great work, but we have about 26 partners. I think almost every city agency has signed on. City college, the universities is here. We have an amazing set of partners doing great work that we look to collaborating with going forward. These are the results that we are trying to achieve. And so there is a set of 15 indicators from department of education that we have provided a baseline for and that we will be, we set target for over the course of the 5 years and thats part of our reporting to the department will be on progress in moving the needle towards our goals on those indicators with the ultimate goal that making sure kids are ready for school, graduate from high school and enter into college and their families have what they need to succeed. A brief update on where