Good afternoon and welcome to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors Personnel Administration and Legislation Committee meeting for Monday, November the 10th, 2025.

May I have roll call, please?

Supervisor Fortunato Pass.

Supervisor Pam present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Let's start with day 41 of the shutdown and the federal legislation update.

Good afternoon.

You've got Emily Bacque de Silva and John Assini here with CJ Lake.

It looks like the Senate, they're trying to work an agreement and could vote uh tonight.

I'm hearing as early as five o'clock, which is 30 minutes from now.

If that's the case, I think that's the expectation that the House would vote on Wednesday.

So that's what it's looking like right now.

Of course, anything can change, but it seems like Senators, now that the deal has been reached, want to get out of here and just get it done.

So, you know, Speaker Johnson has already called the House back.

Um, and so I think again, the House votes would be scheduled for Wednesday.

Um, I mean, you guys know last night the Senate voted 60 to 40 um to on a motion to proceed.

Uh eight Democrats joined Republicans, um, you know, Shaheen and Hassan from New Hampshire, Durbin from Illinois, Kane from Virginia, King from Maine, who has um continued to vote in favor, Rosen from Nevada, Cortez Masto from Nevada.

She's another one who's continued uh to support, and then Fetterman from Pennsylvania.

You know, those were the three that were consistently um voting with Republicans on the House Pass CR.

Uh just noting these members are either retiring or are not up for reelection uh in 2026.

Uh it includes a continuing resolution through January 30th.

Um a piece that's interesting is it does include a three-bill minibus, uh, three appropriations bills for FY26.

So it would fund for the remainder of FY26, agriculture, military construction, veterans' affairs, and legislative branch.

Um, you know, on the upside as far as AG, that means if we were to have some other sort of shutdown, SNAP and WIC would not be impacted.

Um I will say also, and I think John and I have talked about this in previous PAL calls when we were talking about the shutdown.

You know, we were saying there does seem to be like if we can get out of the shutdown, there seems to be a desire to pass FY26 appropriations bills.

And so the fact that kind of these first bills will go alongside the CR, I think says a lot.

Um, and so I think it gives us hope that they will pass um, you know, full year bills for the the remaining uh agencies, if not before January 30th.

Hopefully they will get some through um, you know, by January 30th.

Um John, what else?

I mean, those the extenders, health care extenders were also included.

So funding for community health centers, um, uh the telehealth flexibilities.

Um, I'm I know I'm missing a lot, John, but I'll turn it to you.

I mean, those are kind of the big items.

Um, yeah, I mean, the the CR's extensions are basically the same from what they were agreed to in the house.

So there weren't a whole lot of changes.

I mean, the big the big triumph is to your point, the three bill mini bus that was included.

Um you're right to say that they're gonna start voting at five.

They have seven votes scheduled, and the senate's going to be out for the rest of the week.

Senators have already started to book nighttime fights to go back home.

Tomorrow is the Veterans Day holiday.

Um, and then the House will be back on Wednesday for their vote.

We anticipate that will likely pass as some Democrats are probably going to vote for the CR.

Um, of course, Jeffrey's and the leadership team are very upset with the Senate um for compromising last night.

Um, but I think that there's a consensus in the Democratic coalition um that it was a mistake to move forward, but there's also a good number of members uh whose constituents um are from heavily impacted areas where they think that this is something they could potentially vote for.

So it'll be interesting to see what the House vote is.

Of course.

The Senate um has a 60 vote threshold.

The House has only two votes to spare.

Um, so Johnson will need to have near unanimous consent.

Um, of course, there were two Republicans that voted against the CR when it passed on September 18th.

Um, so it'll we'll be watching the House very closely to see if there's any Democrats that go along and vote for the opening government on Wednesday or Thursday.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Supervisor Fortunatabas, questions, comments.

Um I guess we'll wait and see.

Although I do want to note that um I heard that our two California senators were on the no side.

Um, you know, it's frustrating.

I know there's going to be a vote on health care by December.