This hearing will come to order ask without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Let me say good morning and welcome to our witnesses. Todays hearing on vaccine science and innovation. Smallpox once plague said the worlds population plaguing 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio, had just 33 cases reported worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Every day vaccines are saving lives especially the lives of children and other vulnerable population. Theres no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. Unfortunately, there is a wellfunded, Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening Public Health laws. School vaccination requirements have been common place in the u. S. For generations and exemptions were granted only for legitimate medical reasons. However, in my home state of texas,
Overseeing the over time, approval of the budget communicating with the budget so captains communicate directly and could understand what the thought process was when the captains were requesting and reviewing the overtime versus the ansis tent chief who dont have the direct communication was the captains at the station levels. This would allow the command staff to have Greater Authority to approve over time without having to declare it with their superyours . No, it just give the commander who oversees the station to have that communication with the captain. Currently the way it is, the captains have to go to commander and deputy chiefs. Deputy chiefs are out doing policy revisions, meetings where the captains are communicating with commanders. It is eliminating how would i say it . A layer of extra communication where at times they cant be communicate directly with the chief because of whatever meetings they are in. They need to streamline it more. It shall be approved by the command
We start back in december in the departmental phase, collecting information and starting the process, so certainly perhaps president hirsch can speak with you and set up a group so we wont have this issue next year. The Commission Budget does come out of this . Yeah, all of the anything that the commission wishes to request does come out of our budget and i think, you know, generally any request that has come to me, weve i dont getmy requests from the commission. Is there discretionary Funds Available for the issues . Other Police Commissions will send their commissioners for training. Yeah, there are Funds Available, discretionary Funds Available to the department as a whole and we would certainly, as we those requests come in, work a way to make sure those funds but if we were interested next year, perhaps we could have segregated funds for the commission. That is a request we could talk about in december, yeah. I want to let the other commissioners know, this is the first folly in m
Finally, ill talk through the next steps in the budget process and answer any questions you may have at that time. So generally, the budget process is begins today. But it doesnt really begin today. It started in december and even before that. So ill come back to that, but today, what were working with here, with you, is presenting for your input and approval the proposed preliminary budget submission and that goes to the Mayors Office and the Controllers Office on february 21, which is a charter mandated deadline. And then march through may, were working with the Mayors Office on any initiatives that she may want to include or cut from our budget. And then we are also at the same time working with the Capital Planning committee, the committee on Information Technology and the Mayors Office on Funding Capital i. T. And vehicles. If we are so lucky, any positions that need to be added or new project funds requested by the Department Also get added in that phase as well. And then come ju
Have at that time. So generally, the budget process is begins today. But it doesnt really begin today. It started in december and even before that. So ill come back to that, but today, what were working with here, with you, is presenting for your input and approval the proposed preliminary budget submission and that goes to the Mayors Office and the Controllers Office on february 21, which is a charter mandated deadline. And then march through may, were working with the Mayors Office on any initiatives that she may want to include or cut from our budget. And then we are also at the same time working with the Capital Planning committee, the committee on Information Technology and the Mayors Office on Funding Capital i. T. And vehicles. If we are so lucky, any positions that need to be added or new project funds requested by the Department Also get added in that phase as well. And then come june 1, the mayor submits her budget to the board of supervisors and then in june, we work furious