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Joint Legislative Audit Committee
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Senator Durazo and Assemblymember Salas,
We write today to call upon the Legislature to quickly hold hearings to address the continuing mismanagement of our state’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program by the Employment Development Department (EDD). Since the pandemic began almost 11 months ago, we have heard horror stories from our constituents about unemployment claims being delayed, denied, or just lost in the bureaucracy. Adding insult to injury, newspapers have reported that fraudulent claims totaling potentially billions of dollars have been paid, even while legitimate claims languish. Unfortunately, we have also seen the Governor’s past plans and initiatives fail to reform these problems, and the recently released Governor’s budget offered no new proposals for strategic changes, systems investment, or management improvements.
John Laird.
–The state senator for Paso Robles and the chair of the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) made the following statement today on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January budget proposal for 2021-22:
“I want to thank Gov. Newsom and his staff for their work so far on presenting a realistic draft spending blueprint for the 2021-22 fiscal year. As with the governor, I very much look forward to working with him and his team as California faces unprecedented challenges in getting back on track. This budget wisely commits to assistance for small businesses, greater support for public health programs, a good working plan to reopen schools, as well as addressing non-COVID related threats like climate change impacts.
John Laird
–State Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) who represents Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo County in his district announced his State Senate committee assignments, revealing a broad array of assignments. They are:
– Chair, Senate Budget Subcommittee #1 (Education)
– Vice Chair, Joint Legislative Audit Committee
– Member, Appropriations Committee
– Member, Joint Legislative Committee on Budget
– Member, Judiciary Committee
– Member, Natural Resources & Water Committee
– Member, Rules Committee
– Member, Joint Legislative Committee on Rules
“I want to thank Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins for allowing me the opportunity to serve on several crucial policy-making and fiscal committees,” said Sen. Laird. “These assignments well position me to advance strong, workable measures on climate change, sustainable public education, affordable housing, access to health care and support for science-based public health, addressing issues of social justi