Testimony from the dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state from trusted Traveler Programs like global entry. Like global entry. On february 5, senior ghs official chad wolfe wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cited new yorks green light law, a justification for the ban, stating that the law, quote, compromises cbps ability to confirm whether an individual applying for ttp membership meets Program Eligibility requirements. Mr. Wolf then stated, quote, because the act prevents dhs from accessing new york dmv records in order to determine whether a ttp applicant or reapplicant meets Program Eligibility requirements, new York Resident wills no longer be eligible to enroll or reenroll in cbps trusted Traveler Programs. After that announcement, this committee continued to receive inaccurate and misleading testimony that repeated
He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
Then pound, and pound again. You will hear the meeting but be in listening mode only. When your item is called, press star, three to enter the queue. Thank you, so welcome, everyone, to this regular meeting of the our city, our home Oversight Committee. It is november 17, and we will call the roll. [roll call] we will move into item 2. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item call 4156550001, enter meeting access code 1462611651, press pound, and pound again. Press star, three to enter the queue for Public Comment. Please start speaking when the system indicates you are unmuted, and you will have three minutes. There are no Public Comment. Okay. And i just wanted to say we will have two hours today, so we wanted to be realistic with our agenda, and i know there was a lot of interest in looking at our bylaws, our procedures, and then talking some more about Decision Making criteria, so i just wanted to expla
From the department outlining the plan for their shelter in place rehousing and site demobilization plan. This response to this request has been forwarded to everyones office today. We are still in a pandemic, and just today, mayor breed and dr. Colfax announced the rolling back of our reopening. We are concerned about the process and timeline of shelter in place rehousing and demobilization of our shelters. I want to acknowledge the work that the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the department of Emergency Management have done in collaboration with our Service Providers during this pandemic in keeping our people safe, but we [inaudible] is transparent and ensures that no one, especially our most vulnerable populations, exit back onto the streets. Today, we have, as explained, the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, department of Emergency Management, some of our Emergency Management and controllers speaking otoday, ad i think its very important that
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