Committee will come to order good good morning everyone. I want to think all of you who are attending this important hearing. Today we are going to discuss the International Response of the covid19 pandemic and the future pandemic preparedness prevention and response. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced, the Global Health diplomacy act. It is written on paper, not on stone which will we will talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee will take up indeed, probably one of the weightiest matters that we will deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent covid virus type attack from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic is reaffirmed what we long have known and that is Infectious Diseases particularly those of a viral nature do not respect borders but they are a threat, a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on art of a sick responses to th
The hearing on the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning, and thank the senators and our witnesses or joining us from around the country at various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing, and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on her weight in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we returned to our witnesses for their statements of about five minutes each, if they could please summarize them and oh, there it is. And senators will each have five minute rounds of questions. We have a vote at 11 40, so we we will need to finish this hearing about noon and hopefully all the senators will have by that time a chance to ask the questions. The question for administrators of 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t
Oppose this bill, and i thank you for bringing forward this resolution. Clerk thank you for your comments. There are about ten callers in the queue. Well take the next caller. You have up to two minutes. Welcome, caller. I work at sun tattoo in San Francisco, and im just adding my support for item 28. I would like tattoo businesses to reopen as soon as june 19, especially since all the other shops are open in california outside the bay area. Everybody touched on sterilization and a clean environment. Because of that, i everyone and i work with understand how to prevent cross contamination and provide a safe experience for everyone involved, certainly safer than businesses that are already open. Thanks krerk clerk great. Thank you f clerk great. Thank you for your comment. Next caller. Im calling on item 24, and i strongly support the resolution to support senator Nancy Skinners state bill. Im asking to join supervisors peskin, row anyonen, and fewer refuse the bill unless properly amen
And lane college. They talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The hearing of the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about five minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to fi