Now with the federal grant and the change the administration is there have been 10 bus manufacturers in the country that have now been whittled down to two.

And one of them is in Gillag, is called Gilllig.

They're in Livermore and they're the largest in North America.

And they and the other bus manufacturers said we are no longer making electric vehicles because we can't trust what's going to come down from the administration.

We are not going to be making any more clean energy vehicles until at least 2029.

Well, this puts us at a compromise in being able to even meet the state mandate.

We just probably you probably heard yesterday that 427 million dollars was taken away from uh making windmills uh that uh in the Pacific Northwest that will help provide energy for these clean energy vehicles.

We're taking that away.

We're giving the advantages, not just to other countries, we're taking away jobs that would be would be employed here, and they're not going to exist, and those are job losses too.

So now we're seeing sustainability that's being impacted.

We're seeing public works because we're not getting funding for Daisy Valley Road to be able to repave it.

Sidewalks in some of the county areas that I know your count some of your county areas want sidewalks too, and and any of us that have cities that are near areas of unincorporated areas, we want to be able to provide sidewalks where we can.

That comes from federal grant funding.

So there's all these things that are being impacted, and we're all working together to try to make sure that we can keep the airplane flying while we're trying to fix it along the way.

And uh and I think we're all invested in clean energy being part of the future, but now we're just trying to hang on to what we already have.

So these are the challenges.

Thank you.

Lynn.

Just a time check.

Do you want me to hurry it along if you well, take your time on this question?

After that, I think we'll go to shorter.

Okay.

All right.

Because schools are very important and Lynn's reference.

Schools are very educational.

Thank you for saying that.

And schools are nonpartisan, so everybody, right?

No matter what your priority is, we should really believe in educating kids and having safe and well-functioning schools, right?

So just as uh Chanel mentioned, we haven't actually seen cuts from the Doge cuts or the um the bill, the federal budget yet.

We haven't.

So if you're from San Ramone or um West County and you know that there's been cuts, those were cuts that were already going to happen, those were cuts that had nothing to do with this.

But we're projecting, I mean, just so Monday when the house education um proposal came out on Labor Day, kind of under the radar.

So I haven't even had so I haven't had a chance to read the big fat thing, right?

But um what I did was read some summaries and did some looking into it, and the proposals are very, very dire.

So the funding we get for federal programs in our county, we get about two hundred million dollars in federal funds that go across the county.

Uh, some districts get just a very small amount, some districts get a large amount.

It depends on the um amount of students that you have in poverty because that's what federal funds are supposed to support are students in poverty.

In Contra Costa County, we have roughly 170,000 students in Contra Costa, and 40% of them live in poverty.

They all qualify for what used to be free and reduced uh lunch count.

Now everybody gets free lunch, so we don't really have that, but they all qualify for that.

So when we talk about cutting medical or cutting SNAP, those families are gonna be drastically impacted.

They really they really are.

And so many of you know the uh term Title I schools.

So those are the schools that are going to be impacted, those are the schools that are going to be um losing money.

In the in the big ugly bill and in the Senate proposal that came out in June or July, there weren't drastic cuts to education, except for the Department of Education.

I'll talk about that in just a minute and how that affects our county and our education system.

But the one that came out on Monday had like a 27% cut to title one.

Those are for the students most in need in our nation, right?

And I'm just gonna read some to you because it's really uh twelve twelve billion dollar cut in um for the department of education, the five billion dollar cut for Title I, and that is for our low-income students.

And some of the proposals are eliminating, and you know, I really do believe that budgets reflect your values, they really do.

And so when you see some of these cuts, it's just so disturbing.

So Title III, which supports English learners, it's been proposed to be eliminated, just a limited.

The funds just proposed.

Granted, this just came out.

I'm sure they will.

I used to say I know there's gonna be some negotiating, but who knows?

I don't even know what's gonna happen now.

Adult education federal funds eliminated.

Um the proposal for Title II, and that's for training teachers.

That's additional training for teachers to go work in the most challenging schools eliminated.