The senate is in the personnel business and the house is not. We are working diligently on getting nominations out of committee. That are important for the country, that have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. I know that many people are asking for additional legislation. I think i can speak for our conference by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150already allocated billion. So with that, let me yield. Thank, leader. I think the leader covered well what the senate is doing. Obviously to the past se
Good afternoon, everyone. As we all know, we have been gone for six weeks. Necessarily gone, i might add. The has stacked up since senate is in the personnel business and the house is not. Onare working diligently getting nominations out of committee. They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing.
They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing. To the past several iterations ofrelief, done a lot coronavirus legislation. Much of which is now being implemented. I think part of our job is to make sure it gets implemented in the right way. A lot of our committees will be conducting oversight hear
Good evening, todays updates since our last report, florida has seen 24 new positive cases bringing the state total to 216. 196 our florida residents, 20 nonflorida residents, and there are 1042 test results outstanding. We will announce a number of things related to education for the remaining from this school year on, all remaining testing or School Readiness and k12 will be canceled for the school year. Requirements for graduation and final course grades will be evaluated as those assessments did not exist. Parents may keep their child in the same grade for the 2021 school year. K12 grades will not be calculated or 20192020 and schools may continue their current status next year to avoid disruption. The commissioner may reduce required k12 instructional hours to accommodate for closures as we have seen. All School Readiness, voluntary prek, k12, career and Technical Centers and State College programs will be fully funded as the werthough there were no disruption. Feesext 20 days, al
Have any announcements . Yes, thank you. The board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first. Then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line for the public call in number is screening. Sorry streaming across your screen. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions, but youll be muted and in listening mode only when your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star three to also be added to the speaker queue. If you are on your telephone, please remember to turn down all listening devices that you may be using. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in writing in either of the following ways. Email