Fog and overcast weather to start tuesday. The air quality has been on everyones mine. Smoke from the fires is hovering over much of the bay area. This brings, on the seventh consecutive day of unhealthful air. Doctors warn about the Health Effects of the smoke. This is especially for older people. Cloth and surgical masks dont filter smoke. They are still urging people to wear them because of the pandemic. I was looking here at the apple i used to see the air quality. The air quality is much different in different cities. In oakland, it is much better than it is right now in San Francisco. Right, i live in the east bay. Air quality has been rough. My brother lives up in el cerrito. Things have been better for him there. I always check to see what my parents and siblings are going through. People who have asthma, the elderly, people who have trouble breathing, even on a good day, they are the ones who are required to be careful now. Thats a good time to remember, i mean, about what the
Regulations members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time they are in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera. This is an entirely remote hearing and as such the Committee Ruling will be closed and members who choose to sit with their individual devices in the hearing room must wear headphones to avoid feedback echoes and distortion resulting for more than one person in the room on the Software Platform as has been reported by the committees. They also are excited to adhere to social distancing and safe healthcare guidelines including masks, gloves and wiping down their area both before and after their presence in the hearing room. While a roll call is not necessary to establish a quorum, whatever there is an official proceeding with low participation the clerk will call the roll to help make clear who is here at the start of the proceeding. I will ask the clerk to call on the role. Madame clerk. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [r
[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold challenges and with todays hearing we can be prepared to answer the call to Racial Equity and justice in education. I want to note this hearing marks the committees first fully remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations. To date we will examine how covid19 pandemic has directly impacted his state and local government revenue and how projected state and local government shortfalls to further exacerbate educational inequities rooted in a with the inequities rooted a
The time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you folks for coming out. It must be quiet on the president ial trail here in iowa today. You are absolutely welcome. Thank you for being here as well. Work, weur town halls do have a number of cards filled up by folks i would like to ask questions. If you would like to fill out a card and you didnt when you came in, raise your hand. Staff will come by and will provide you with a card. You can fill that out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that, we will go ahead and get started. I wont have an Opening Statement or anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. Those upve cards, send to the front here. Emily will go ahead and call a couple names out. She will get folks in line. We will get started. They give coming. I apologize for any name i butcher. I will read to names. Deb, followed by and are amber. Hello. Im a Small Business owner here in carroll county. I want to kn
About amongst our communities and constituencies. Thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you folks for coming out. It must be quiet on the president ial trail here in iowa today. You are absolutely welcome. Thank you for being here as well. Work, weur town halls do have a number of cards filled up by folks i would like to ask questions. If you would like to fill out a card and you didnt when you came in, raise your hand. Staff will come by and will provide you with a card. You can fill that out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that, we will go ahead and get started. I wont have an Opening Statement or anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. Those upve cards, send to the front here. Emily will go ahead and call a couple names out. She will get folks in line. We will get started. They give coming. I apologize for any name i butcher. I will read to names. Deb, followed by and