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[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to our witnesses, several of whom have traveled the considerable distances to be here today for this important hearing on paid family and medical leave. Before we move to our scheduled committee business, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the recent tragic passing of pamela moomau, a valued member staff of the staff of the joint committee on taxation for over 28 years. A reminder, again, of the considerable talent that exists sometimes outside of the glare of publicity. Pamela began her career at the joi...

Can i get a roll call . Director brinkman is joining us as an alternate. Dr. Haney is in on route. [roll call] mr. Chairman, you do have a quorum. Can i call you next item . Yes please. Item 30 is communications. I am not aware of any. Seeing none, for item four, board of directors new and old business. Moving right along, item five, executive directors report. Good morning. Im pleased to provide you an update on the first three months of operating the Transit Center. As you know, we open the Transit Center to the public on july 1 st and resumed full bus operations by august 12th. Im happy to ...

Is there a motion to approve the minutes of july . So moved. Is there a second . Second. Any further comments on these minutes . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. The next item is general Public Comment. I have a few cards here. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners today, i want to recap, you know , when i come over here during general Public Comment, sometimes i reveal to you all a few things and then when i sit down, and, you know, i cannot be here forever, because i have other things to do, i leave. And other people come and they talk about your interns and th...

Yes. So what jobs are you talking about in terms of lean hiring process and the dashboard stuff . What are you talking about . Are you talking about staff at puc or construction . What does that mean . So the first one is the lean hiring process. Thats actually looking at how we do recruitment. So we actually have controllers recruitment for what . Personnel. So how we go about recruiting staff. What are the various steps with going through the posting, the announcement, the actual interview process, all of these things we have identified ways to improve that process, to speed it up. We have n...

Perhaps we should orchestrate thats what happens before we go to the planning commission. That is my thought. That would be great. That would be great. If we could see some draft policy framework statements that is intended to go before planning, that would be great. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . I have a card for you. Commissioners, 300 years ago, the state team that was mentioned this list for the california Natural Resources agency, the California Environmental protection agency, the state water board, the department of water resources, the department of fish and wildlife, no...