Please silence your mobile devices. When speaking before the commission if you care to do state your name for had record. Like to take roll. Wolfram, here, hasz, here. Johnck, here. Johns, here. Matsuda. Commissioner pearlman will be absent today. Ajnda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached. Each member may address up to 3 minutes. Any member wish to make comment not on our agenda today . Seeing and hearing none, well close general Public Comment. Very good commissioners place under Department Matters mpt tim fry department staff, the director report was included in the packet and happy to answer question. If no question we can move to item 2. Planning commission, staff report. Commissioners just one item to report back to or actually two items. One is monday the budget and Land Use Committee heard the lands mark designation for 3545 amine doga and forwarded a positive recommendation. There should be one more reading and to the mayor
State your name for had record. Like to take roll. Wolfram, here, hasz, here. Johnck, here. Johns, here. Matsuda. Commissioner pearlman will be absent today. Ajnda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached. Each member may address up to 3 minutes. Any member wish to make comment not on our agenda today . Seeing and hearing none, well close general Public Comment. Very good commissioners place under Department Matters mpt tim fry department staff, the director report was included in the packet and happy to answer question. If no question we can move to item 2. Planning commission, staff report. Commissioners just one item to report back to or actually two items. One is monday the budget and Land Use Committee heard the lands mark designation for 3545 amine doga and forwarded a positive recommendation. There should be one more reading and to the mayor for signature. Second item is remind you that the government audit and Oversight Committe
Of adaptations. We took a wall and started writing all over the Different Things on the wall we thought drones were going to be used for. We came up with a lot of the common commercial ones we talked about here. Then we also kind of had a section of the wall where we wanted to come up with some of the things that we hoped and we wanted to see drones really used for. And aerial delivery of medicines. And those are two examples that we have been involved in since. Any other one of the interesting requests we got early days, walmart found us and they asked us if this is something they publicly talk about. They do, they use satellite imagery to figure out how many people go to the stores. But they want to take a step further and find out how many people go to the stores based on their commercials on tv. So being able to map that and correlate that based on i did this ad campaign and 30 people showed up at the store. Globally and regionally, its huge. All the manufacturing plants in china w
Those are some of the things that the Contingency Fund is about. It is a fund we have submitted for because we want to make sure there is a block that the funding will not be used only as needed, but we want to plan for things we cant exactly predict right now. Youve asked for some money for fda for vaccines. Would you speed it up, bring more people into the process, are there steps in an emergency situation like this that there is a way to go through them more quickly or go around them to get to the end product quicker . Yes, sir. We have seen that in process right now. The Congress Gave us emergency use authorization that would allow us to approve diagnostics quickly. Weve used that authorization six times. Fda has used it six times. We approved from start to finish in 36 hours. One of those diagnostics. With regard to other emergency authorities that fda has, we have approved drugs. What happens is when a drug is not approved, if a clinician asks fda for approval for that individual
Manufacturing a new Competitive Edge in this global economy. The best thing washington can do is to encourage further growth in investment. As president obama noted in his recent speech touting 3d printing hubs, if you want to attract more good manufacturing jobs, you need to be on the cutting edge. Our company could not agree more. Id like to thank the committee for holding this hearing and id be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, mr. Cobb. Our next witness is Peter Weijmarshausen founder and ceo of shapeaways, the worlds leading 3d printing marketplace and community. Prior to shapeaways, peter was the chief Technology Officer at sanjen which he and his team developed satellite broadcast modems. Hes director of engineering at ermiska where hes responsible for delivering a Business Broadband Service via satellite. He was born and raised in the netherland and moved to new york in 2010. Thanks for being here. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman and members of the committee