The committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning to i want to thank amy colleagues for joinin us today. Id like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing. Shawna bashard, sean cooksy and alan dixon are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections committee. As our witnesses are joining us remotely i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, its a significant president ial nomination, and significant to the work of this committee. And i know youre proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about a couple of nominees and then im going to turn to another committee member, senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Allen dickerson is the nominee to be a member of the federal Elections Commission for a term, expiring on april the 30th, 2025. Mr. Dickersons been practicing law for 20 years, primarily in
Time. Thank you for asking me to join you. I want to ask you, where are we now with Day Care Centers and child care . Because they have been running, first, just for essential workers. They were closed for a while and then just for essential workers and in june for everyone. But i know not every center, public or private, is open. Kind of give us a quick snapshot in the percentages. Sure. So i just want to say one thing which is that california officially closed its child care centers. There were 15 states that did close them, only for emergency workers. California did not do that, although it prioritized services for essential workers, so it was sort of a flashing yellow light on child care that was operating from before june. We just did a study in the field, the second half of june and back of july 2nd with about a thousand programs in the state, and we found that 82 of the Family Child Care programs were open in our sample and about 65 of the centers were open, and that maps on pre
Transparent and we can really go along and seeing what is happening at our sites, knowing that teachers and administration, students and families are not getting the support they need and can easily assume that is because we are not funding appropriately. And so, i think ultimately, this conversation is it is about the Police Department and what we as a School District want to have as far as the relationship with them. And what that really means to people. But its also about the overall just structure that we have that allows for these scenarios to play out. This is happening at our sites, at school sites and i need to be educated to understand they as Authority Figures perpetuate similar instances that cops are doing outside on the streets. Its not at the same level, but its still targeting black and brown kids and still taking them out of our classrooms and suspending them and kicking them out of our schools because of the Power Dynamics that were seeing cops dont know how to deal wi
Items to infrastructure, housing and Small Businesses. This will be our 11th remote hearing. Im requesting everyones patience in advance. Platforms are not perfect at all. If you are speaking, please mute if youre not speaking, please mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. Public participation, sfgovtv. Org is forecasting is streaming the hearing live and well receive Public Comments on todays agenda. Sfgov tv will broadcast and stream the tollfree phonein number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 888 2733658. Entering access 31074523107452. Entering code 3107452. When you are connected and we begin accepting Public Comment that will be the time to enter one and zero to be queued to speak. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. And when you have 30 seconds remain, you will hear a chime indicat
To hold hearings randomly. On april 3rd, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization to recould be convenient remotely through the end of the shelterinplace. The authorization directs the commission to prioritize action items to infrastructure, housing and Small Businesses. This will be our 11th remote hearing. Im requesting everyones patience in advance. Platforms are not perfect at all. If you are speaking, please mute if youre not speaking, please mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. Public participation, sfgovtv. Org is forecasting is streaming the hearing live and well receive Public Comments on todays agenda. Sfgov tv will broadcast and stream the tollfree phonein number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 888 2733658. Entering access 31074523107452. Entering code 3107452. When you are connected a