Started. Well, thanks again for being here. Im vanessa and i had the pleasure leading charters federal legislative affairs team here in washington. We really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to listen to this great lineup of speakers. Wed convened this group today to talk about a specter issue that is code important to 5g and broadband deployment, including in rural areas. Were going to start with an introduction, and overview of the 5g plus plan, and then move to an expert panel discussion. Its my pleasure to nap introduce matt polka aca knex, and steven berry of cca. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our briefing on this important issue. My name is matt polka, president and ceo of aca knex americas can medications association, formally known as the american cable association, and we are very, very pleased to be a today along with our partners at chart and cca to talk about this important issue that certainly affects all of our members, 700s of aca aca knex tha
Okay. We have the whistleblower is so important to us that i wanted to have it on there twice if thats okay . Oh, yeah, sure. Its such a rare opportunity for someone to have governance over that particular program. indiscernible . October 21st. Well make sure that you guys get the invitation as well. So regarding the work plan, a couple of housekeeping things. Peter is going to take on the capital plan. So we are going to have the liaison for the capital plan. And peter an will transition the Whistleblower Program from brenda which was very important. We still dont have anyone for the 2011 road paving. Again, im not too concerned about that because everything has been spent, or almost everything. And then all we have left is the park bond. Iis anyone willing to meet with the park bond people between now and october . Because they really are the meat of our october meeting. Anyone . Anyone . Anyone . Okay, thank you. And i also see the seawall in our next meeting and the seawall can you
Her Covert Affairs team have no influence or insight into the resourcing over all. I cant comment that we can get back to you. Thank you for your comments, congressman. So thats exactly why we are here. I speak for a section of the pharmaceutical industry that few people actually appreciate, especially given the statistics that i referenced that two out of every three new drugs approved by the fda last year actually originated in companies that are small biopharmaceutical emerging companies. We dont have a voice in washington. Excelixis is not a member of pharma. Where a number of bio. We dont hear the realities, the pains and challenges that are faced to bring an important new drug to market, represent and the debates because i think a lot of people take for granted that its all great Big Companies with huge budgets and throwing a lot of money at problems. You may be an example of someone who is at a competitive disadvantage because you dont have the same resources to deploy into thos
Nobody likes it. Chinatown only. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is alan, i live in on bernal heights. I just want to share with you what we went through the last couple of days. We know how the merchants feel about that, and the resident which had persuaded to come forth. Very difficult. If they walk away, they have to find a replacement. It is very difficult. They really want to do it. They want to speak out. They ask us to record their word, then play it here. In front of me, this stat, 10,300 names collected by july 15. We will send the clerk the online version of that. All of them are residents of San Francisco. You can check them, you can audit them. It has a phone number, or address, or both. I want you to know, this is not an ongoing issue. Just a small portion of the people do not like this idea. Chinatown businesses, many many people do not like this idea. Please think it over. Do not do the wrong thing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Today at
I have 23 years in atlanta georgia. This is where i get that twang. Since people want to get up here and talk about their genealogy, and who they are, i am 11th generation United States citizen, on my mother side. That is one generation before the pilgrims. All i am trying to do is gain the ability to have my u. S. Department of treasury federal funds returned to myself in my bank account. It took me probably over 30 years to work those 40 quarters, it is not easy to do because i have suffered from a Mental Illness that is now classified as ptsd. I know the reason why i have it. I just want to share this letter from dish, that is funded, because i ask people all i need is one sentence on one piece of paper. I need to get my u. S. Department of treasury funds back, then i can decide where i want to live. I was placed in 2014 i dont want to be a professional hobo. I need my money. Thank you. If anyone is interested in what is really going on with people making he will be paid thank you,