chair, first, i see jeremy lee wishing recognition. >> jeremy lee. >> so mr. chair, thank you so much. i'm not familiar with air table. at a very high level, can you, like, describe how air table would be, like, used and how, like, the information would be provided to us? >> i'll answer the question from member lee. i'm seth neal, from q2 research. the air table will probably be used both to have a submission form where people can write in text and also upload files. the files that we'll be uploading are the mapping, the shape files, and the pdfs from the statewide and community of interest tool so they can provide actual lines, geographic files that can be used to represent their communities. so the public would interact with that both to submit their comment through a web form, and then also to view comments that have been made in a data table. so it would look -- it looks like a spreadsheet, more or less. would just be text responses and links to file where we can download them and offering some filtering and sorting, for instance, by submission date or nam

jeremy lee is next on the roster. >> chair townsend: mr. lee. >> member: thank you, mr. neil, for being with us today. i want to say i'm happy to see that the user guides are available in all four of the languages, english, spanish, chinese, and filipino. i wanted to ask about the kind of in-language ability to add chinese or filipino to the mapping website. i know ms. mcdonald had mentioned at the last meeting that she was speaking with the department of elections and trying to see the feasibility of that. do you know the status of that at all? >> i don't have an update on the status. i think that it is still mainly a question of time and funding for just implementing, you know, other translations for the tool as a whole and turn around time for that kind of thing which tends to be slower for us than these documents. >> member: got it. and, my next question is does q2 have the ability -- let's say, you know, adding chinese and filipino ends up being cost prohibitive or it's just too much work or too expensive, does q2 have the ability to do tutorials for how to use the

jeremy lee is next on the roster. >> chair townsend: mr. lee. >> member: thank you, mr. neil, for being with us today. i want to say i'm happy to see that the user guides are available in all four of the languages, english, spanish, chinese, and filipino. i wanted to ask about the kind of in-language ability to add chinese or filipino to the mapping website. i know ms. mcdonald had mentioned at the last meeting that she was speaking with the department of elections and trying to see the feasibility of that. do you know the status of that at all? >> i don't have an update on the status. i think that it is still mainly a question of time and funding for just implementing, you know, other translations for the tool as a whole and turn around time for that kind of thing which tends to be slower for us than these documents. >> member: got it. and, my next question is does q2 have the ability -- let's say, you know, adding chinese and filipino ends up being cost prohibitive or it's just too much work or too expensive, does q2 have the ability to do tutorials for how to use the

jeremy dirgamond, thank you. >>> let's discuss this with barbara lee of california, a member of the progressive caucus. you for joining us on new year's eve. last week you tested positive for covid-19. a breakthrough case. i want to just ask how you're feeling today. >> sure. thank you for having me with you. i'm feeling fine. i'm passed my ten days. i isolated for ten days and had mild cold symptoms but i had a chance really to do a deep dive into all the research and all of the messages and all of the issues around covid, and i am telling you, we have got to get everyone vaccinated, boosted, get the testing protocols out there and make sure tests are available because it is for certain that the impact of covid is much less if, in fact, you addressed the issue of vaccines and boosters. and so i'm encouraging everyone. i've talked to several members who also tested positive and we all agree that we've got to rev up our messages to the public, to our constituents. i've been working to make sure we know where the resources are in my district during this period. and it has just been a remarkable moment fo