reporting in progress. Good afternoon and welcome to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, personnel administration and legislation committee of March 10th. Admiral Call please. Supervisor Fortinet O'Bass excused. Supervisor Tam. Present. Sorry, let's start with our federal legislation update. Thank you,visor. So to kick us off on the schedule, both chambers are in session this week. Of course, the main focus in DC will be the FY25 funding bills, which would be the foremost likely of a continuing resolution. Congress has yet to finalize the FY25 spending bills and a continuing resolution funding the governments that we are currently under expires on Friday, March 14. Over the weekend, Republicans released the text of this fixed month, CleanCR, that would lock funding 2024 levels through the end of fiscal year and a verdict government shutdown. The House vote could be as soon as tomorrow night with the Senate following later in the week. The House Rules Committee is meeting today to consider the rule that would dictate how the bill will be considered tomorrow on the floor, which will, as always, be very interesting to watch about the bill will be considered in the House. In a letter to House Democrats on Friday, a minority leader, Hitching Jeffries, a minority whip cast in Clark stated that Democrats are ready to oppose a long-term extension of government funding at the current 2024 levels, and they cited concern over cuts to funding for healthcare nutritional assistance that transcends benefit. If all Democrats oppose the six-month VR, particularly in the House, then it'd be the Johnson House and have to get every House Republican member to vote in support of the measure or the passage. There's already been one defection on the Republican side, representative Thomas Massey has detected and dictated over the weekend that he will not be supporting. The continuing resolution in its current form, which only allows one additional defection on the Republican side before they are unable to pass the bill with that democratic support. And at the same time, Senate Republicans could need as many as eight Democrats support the DR Senate. This is largely because France all, the Republican also from Kentucky has indicated the two will not support continuing resolution, which will require eight Democrats to cross the support continuing resolution. In terms of what the likelihood is of a shutdown, it's really anyone's guess at this point based on conversations that we've had Ritpo's Republicans and Democrats Republicans seem to be rather bullish in their assessment of being able to pass this bill without any democratic support. Democrats are of course more skeptical and believe they'll have to come to the negotiating table. I think we really won't know who is right and who is wrong until the vote starts happening tomorrow night. I know that members will looking at the vote board to see how close the public is they're able to get passing the bill with that Democratic support. And then once they reach kind of their threshold, then we'll understand better when Democrats are going to have to, you know, either vote for it or run to or put against it and have to go back to the drawing board. If the Republicans and the House are not successful in getting the CR passed through the lower chamber, there's a potential, there's another option that's being considered by the four corners of the appropriations committee that they could do a short-term CR and bring funding to April 1st. But this option is not really being considered seriously by the rank and file members with leadership of both parties, but it's been operating in the background. Emily, I don't know if you've heard anything else in your kind of conversations. It's been all CR all day and all weekend for us, so a lot of cross-current conversations. Yeah, and I think what's interesting too is that I know when we were when we were out talking to you guys in January and we've talked about this subsequently, we felt like, and I think most of DC felt like Democrats would have leverage, right? When it came to appropriations simply because there are historically a number of House Republicans who will not vote for appropriations bills and you need 60 votes in the Senate. What's interesting, I think, to all of us as we've watched is House Republican leadership have enlisted President Trump to outreach to some of these Republicans who usually vote no against appropriations bills. And it seems like they are saying, Hold your nose, vote for this. This is the only way that we can then focus on reconciliation, which is kind of the big prize. And so again, it seems like they're having some success. I mean, if they're able to pull this off in the house without democratic votes, that's saying a lot. As John said, I think we're just gonna have to wait and see. I think if it does get through the house, the question is, do Senate Democrats wanna be blamed for some sort of shutdown? Because the idea is, House would vote for this. If it passes, they would leave DC. House Democrats are supposed to have a retreated end of this week anyway. So I think they're supposed to adjourn on Wednesday. So we just kind of have to see how things play out, but it seems like no one wants to shut down. So I just wanted to kind of add that note there. And then also because everyone is focused on appropriations, no one is talking about the budget resolution and reconciliation. Of course, the Senate has said, okay, we will agree to, or Senate leadership has said since the House was able to pass kind of this big, beautiful bill. We will focus on that, but we're not going to take it up until we get back from our recess, and we certainly want to make some changes to it. So I think the soonest Senate could even take up the House budget resolution is the week of the 24th and that could slip. So all that to say reconciliation continues to kind of get pushed, I mean, they're until they can figure out FY 25. Also on FY 26, I would just add, We're still waiting on a budget request from the White House. I had heard last week that I know one of the steps you take with a budget request is pass backs between agencies and OMB on what your budget request may look like. So I was just hearing on Friday that those passbacks are happening and that we're expecting a budget request from the Trump admin to be sent to Congress at some point in April. So that's kind of it on budget and reconciliation. As you know, last week, one of the big things was the President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress. Nothing really knew there other than him talking about his broader legislative agenda, including the Push for Tax Cuts, repealing the Chips and Science Act, which was a bipartisan measure designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. so that took, I think, some Republicans by surprise. You largely avoided discussing healthcare policy or, you know, the CR is coming up on, or expiring on March 14th. But just wanted to make a note of that. And then as far as confirmations, the Senate voted to confirm Linda McMahon as Secretary of the Department of Education on last Monday. And so he now has 20 of his 22 cabinet members confirmed the final two nominees for former US Congresswoman Lori Shavest a remor for Secretary for the Department of Labor and then Elise Daphonic for Ambassador to the. The Senate, I think, is expected to approve Chavez-Dharimer this week, but it'll take a little bit longer for Daphonic. And I think we talked about it last week, is that the Speaker can't afford to lose her vote right now. So they're trying to time it just right on that one. But after this week, she should be the only one remaining that hasn't been confirmed. And that is our report so happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you for that update. Just to clarify, you said on the Republican side, they can only afford one affection and the members that typically are opposed to the appropriations, they have been persuaded by the president to move it forward. So I think they can afford to lose two votes. Is that right, John? And Matthew has already said he's a no. Yeah. So they can afford to lose, well, one additional one because Matthew has already indicated his no. Yeah. But yes, from what we understand, they've kind of been able to twist some arms. And so even defense hawks who hate the idea of a continuing resolution for the Department of Defense, it seems like they've told them, look, vote for this and then we can increase funding levels in the reconciliation bill for defense. And then some of the other kind of hardliners who in general vote know, again, it seems like they are convincing them to vote yes. As John said, we'll have a, you know, we'll know for certain tomorrow. John, I don't know if you have anything to add there. Okay. We don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I wish I had, I wish I could give you a solid answer what I think is going to happen, but just conversations that we've had in both the house side and the senate side. You get different answers from different people. You have different strategies from different wings of the party as well as what their intentions are when this vote happened. I think a lot of conversations are still ongoing. Even in the Democratic caucus right now, there are good members that do not want to see the government shut down under any circumstances. They're going to likely oppose Democratic leadership in voting for the CR regardless of how it's currently drafted. And then you have a lot of other members that have an opposite view that they think that this is a leverage point for Democrats, and they should not go along with their Republican-funded and drafted bill in that, you know, this is an opportunity for Democrats to stay to stand for their satisfaction with the way that the country is being run from the Trump administration and also from the congressional perspective and how this is being conducted in the House. That message is not unified on the day of democratic office. Thank you for that clarification and you've been through these many times before and so I know this time it's a little more precarious because of the thin margin that's involved between the houses. First off, I wanted to also thank your office for helping us present the update. I know it was an evening event on our side, but then know your rights. Lynn, your request from your office had given us an update. Granted it was a little grim, but we wanted to let you know that we're counting on you to help us understand what to react to and what not to react to and how to be more strategic. So appreciate all of that effort as well last week. Thank you. My colleague is still tied up in a meeting. So we'll just move on to the state legislation side. Good afternoon, Amy Costa with full moon strategies with your state legislativeacy Update. Late in February and Friday, February 28th, the assembly speaker actually announced to change committees and he removed several Republican members from Budget and Policy Committees. You'll see in our report a link to a Sacramento B report that asserts that the changes were because those members were criticizing the majority party on social media. So pretty unusual to have changes in committee assignments when we're already kind of in the legislative session, but there's a little bit more detail in the report. Also last week, the assembly committee on health, held their hearing on March 4th, and it was focused on the behavioral health system transformation. We'll have full notes in our PAL report. Additionally, the Senate Budget Committee on Public Safety Met last week. And as part of that hearing, we heard from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. And they covered the state prison population projection methodology, they used related to Prop 36. And there were a number of questions by the legislative analyst office on the methodology that they used. And the administration did note that they will be changing the methodology as they go towards the May revise. Again, we'll have full notes attached to our PAL report. As is often the case this time of year, the legislative's Office is releasing a number of reports related to programs that are funded or not funded in the budget. And we will include copies of those reports in our PAL report. But they had one report on the encampment resolution funding and on the state's efforts regarding homelessness encampments in general. They released another report on MediCal caseload and they spent quite a bit of time talking about on the senior caseload in particular in MediCal. And then lastly, they released a report on the CalAIM enhanced care management and community supports implementation update. Again, we will include each of these and provide a full report next week. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you for that update. Sounds like we have a lot to look forward to next week. I have no further questions on that other than a comment that I have on the Thank you for that update. Sounds like we have a lot to look forward to next week. I have no further questions on that other than a comment that both Senator Erdogan and Assemblymember Bonta were at our billier rights community forum for community based organizations and they have worked very closely with your office, Amy, and so they know they can count on us when they want people to testify in their committees. So appreciate that. The next items are action items. I'm not quite sure whether these are timely. I have not had feedback that was negative from my colleagues' office. But what I will do is advance AB 1153 at the request of Supervisor Miley's office on the solid waste disposal and co-disposal site cleanup legislation as well as the request from our health care agency on the state budget request for sustained funding for the future of public health. And similarly, a request from our health care director also for a budget request of $44 million in general fund funds for the vaccination management program. I will advance that to the full board for support and if there are any comments from the public on this Let me know. I have no speakers. Okay. Are there any public comments on items that are not on today's agenda? I have no speakers for public comment. If those online would feel free to identify yourselves. Leon. I just did. I this is Leon Fernando from Chop Sports Services. and the I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. is the NGARSEA with first five Alameda County. Jessica Blakemore, Alameda County Health. Good afternoon. This is Hannah Hamilton, Alameda County Social Services Agency. Thank you all for your participation. The Pell Committee is adjourned. Thank you.