Cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Divet. It is now 1 13 p. M. Sorry for the delay. My name is miguel bustos, and this is the regular meeting on committee on Community Investment and infrastructure, january 19, 2021. Following the guidelines set forth by local and state officials during this health emergency, the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including members of public. Thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order is business is item 1, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. [roll call] clerk all members of the commission are present. The next order is business is item 2, announcements. The next reg
The outgoing chairman, mike johnson from louisiana from indiana mike johnson from louisiana and jim thanks from indiana. Im going to do a quick interruption of them and then ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. If you would like to ask questions, please submit them to chris see hris. Gavin at a. Org. We will put them up. I have a bunch of my own questions as well so we will try to get to them as they come up. Representative jim thanks is chairman elect to the committee and representative thinks is inn his second term representative of the Third District covering the Northeast Corner of the date including four lane. Thanks service in the Armed Services committee on education and Labor Committee and Veterans Affairs committee. He is the father of Young Children so we always like to have, no about peoples families. Representative johnson is the outgoing chairman, the second term representing Fourth District of louisiana covering the northwest part of the state inclu
Says the first rollout could happen by mid december. The g20 discusses the virus and the potential remedies. Shotspledges to make available to all and President Trump wont say if the u. S. Will join a global effort. Haidi we are setting up for a cautious start to trading. The aussie dollar holding pretty steady. Kiwi stocks are up by half a percent. We are seeing the kiwi dollar trading just flat. U. S. Officials say the first vaccinations could be administered in just three weeks if given the green light for emergency use by the fda. Aboutare still concerns how poorer countries will be given access to any vaccine. The vaccineke Development Team has an aggressive timeline. Be do we expected to achieved and a lot of people are concerned about equitable access. Of movingre a lot parts here. A lot of movement around the world. Drug administration has an advisory meeting that day about the vaccine. Health officials really seem to think that approval could be forthcoming at that meeting or
During this pandemic. We have taken staff within other units within h. R. We have five different areas that i mentioned and five different Business Units in h. R. We assigned them and put them in our return to work so we can provide better visibility and Better Customer Service to our employees. It was interesting to note that from march to october, during the covid19 shelterinplace, really intense period, they return to work team has respond to over 9000 emails from march to october. In october alone, have responded to 425 calls. For fy 19 and and 20 they responded to 5500. Thats is a staff of six people who done that. Its interesting, i heard lot about staffing and you mention that one of the things was the shortage in staffing. There has been and the team has been dedicated to make sure to try to provide enhanced customer service. One things that we have been committed is communicating. I hear lot about communicating, making sure there are updates. We sent over hundred emails about
Chair fewer this is the november 18, 2020 rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors Shamann Walton and raphael mandelman. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number one. Clerk yes. Item one, retroactive hearing on updates related to the economic landscape f [inaudible] on march 1, 2021 through february 28, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4154550001, enter meeting i. D. 1467347302. Press pound, and pound again, and press star, three to enter the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have the department of Public Health. Colleagues, you may remember, we heard this item and continued it to today to get some more demographic information on our hiv and aids. These are the areas that we understood you were interested in hearing more abou