Per agenda item for up to two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. Director tsen. Director tsen, youre muted. Here. Clerk director dunlop. Here. Clerk director richardson. Here. Clerk director kwon. Here. Clerk director shifrin. Here. Clerk supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Good. Thank you. Thank you, directors, for joining us. I know sometimes its technical difficulties with this technology. But i hope that well be able to get through the agenda quickly and efficiently. Thank you all for being here. The last Board Meeting was in october. And what a difference a month makes. Now that were in november. We have a new president elect. So it is, i hope okay. So lets go forward with the first item. Clerk item number 2, general Public Comment. This item is to allow members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition, to gen
The western prefecture is also experiencing a medical care shortfall. The prefecture set is up a new facility with 30 beds equipped with ventilators to treat serious coronavirus cases the governor says 80 nurses have been cured to far, but this is not enough. Hes hoo asking for to be sent for reenforcement. 16 people including pashlts and nurses became infected. The hospital says the cluster sta started with a patient who tested negative in a cr test on admission. The patient was hospitalized with a different disease in october and discharged two days later. Ten days later, two nurses who looked after the patient reported fever and upset stomach and tested positive for the virus. Translator we must assume every patient may have contra contracted the virus the day before a pcr test and treat patients they may show covid19 symptoms any time until about two weeks after contracting the virus. A clustered infection on Remote Island is pushing medical workers to brink. 53 people or 2 of the
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Qualified expert to weigh in on gj hypothetical past condition. Next[aqwqd slide please. First the screening analysis show the project was likely going to exceed the air district of ten excess cancers per million. Even if it wasnt an air pollution exposure zone given it is in such a zone, the cumulative affect adding the excess cancer risk caused by the project to the already elevated cancer risk is going to be a cumulative impact. All of the inputs protocols an out puts are in the file. He did it twice. Assuming that best why was still there and another assuming it wasnt. Next slide please. You have about two minutes left. Thank you. That just shows you the sources of emissions he looked at the parking lot. Loading dock and the street where the trucks are going to go leading up to that location. Next slide. Heres what he found. The health risk is significant even if you assume best buy is still there. He found output. 25 extra cancers beyond. You can see down here on farrell street th
Thank you, mr. President. I come to the floor today to pay tribute to this great wyoming leader. For nearly a quarter of a century, mike enzi has represented the people of wyoming in washington, and hes done it with intelligence, with intensity e and with integrity. The cowboy state and the capitol are going to sorely miss mike if enzi. Hes truly cemented his legacy as the trusted trail boss of the wyoming congressional delegation, and its been an incredible honor and a great privilege for my wife bobbi and me to serve the people of wyoming alongside mike and husband wife diana who is with us today. I mike is truly a devoted family man as well as a man of great and deep faith. In fact, mike taught sunday school over the decades, many in the Faith Community know that mikes first sunday schoolteacher was my wife bobbis mother, jerry brown. Jerry and husband wife both passed away this year, and they had been married 70 years. He taught sunday school in wyoming, and her star pupil was mike