Roll call vote. Is supervisor jane kim. Supervisor mar. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed. Supervisor campos. Supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. There are 11 is pr those months ago are approved and the resolution adapted. Today is meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the supervisor avalos and supervisor campos so far the late mr. Mar confess and at the suggestion on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the enemy of the victims of the South Koreans seal tragedy. I want to thank you and you alone and other staff. Is there any more business before the body. Theres no further business. With that, were adjourned if you have phones or things that make noise if you could put them on vibrate. If you have a comment to make, we have speaker cards that should be up front, if you could fill that out and with your name and what agenda item you would like to speak on and hand them over to our staff and finally thank
Accounting meeting where that will get passed onto the board of supervisors. Yeah, well lets finish up. The next item the next item is Public Comment on nonagenda items. Thank you very much is there any Public Comment im sacrificing because i should be down at the board of supervisors because you may or may not know because i get the word with the fbi was here and theyll be here today for the board of supervisors ambassador and i was going to sing my song i would in shape to do it here maybe next week. Im really kind of i want you to understand the frustration i can see im the only one here im dedicated and rededicated now because its something thats in me. I dont know why im here but theres a reason for it and get used to it, its unbearable to go home after all those meetings ive been doing this for a number of years you all should be getting paid by you all do it because you have to put up with me ill approve that but im going to ask respectfully again, i know i dont have the clerk c
And we are going to go ahead and start with this a roll call. Hyde. Here. Lee. Per es. Here. Naomi akers is running late. She will be in in five minutes. We will start this with Public Comment and there is an opportunity for any in the public to speak to matters of the commission that is not currently on the agenda, and so is there any Public Comment . Again, this is item are really just the agenda. Please come up to the microphone and say your name and you have two minutes. All right. My name is bary, and i have not been here in a while. And i wanted to. Hi. I want to congratulate you on getting the president of the commission, and the big shoes to fill because i felt that i was really impressed with your predecessor who did a wonderful job but i am here and i got incensed enough before i go to the pass over tonight and to speak on two subjects and i had one but a second one came up as a result of reading something on facebook. And the first one is about a club called infusion lounge
More raisely wrote to recently wrote to the deputy or acting secretary of the have. A asking for explanation in apparent tripling in wait times in connecticut and in fact elsewhere around the country. The increase in wait times and, those wait times delayed longer than 30 days that seem to have tripled in connecticut, quadrupled elsewhere. Will you commit to me that you will provide a response to that letter . If confirmed i will provide a response but knowing sloan gibson the way i do, you will get a response. Im hoping that response will being imminent, not sometime in the indefinite future. Thats my hope as well. Thank you. The other area of gave concern to me specifically of connecticut was care for womens veterans. I hope that will be a priority for you that womens care for veterans in the va facility in new haven, whether result of trauma connected to Sexual Assault or battlefield pts will be a priority for you . Its a priority and a growing priority. The number of women going in
Embrace it. The less the leaders in congress recognize publicly that this is an important issue its not going to happen because theyre going to have people pushing back real hard so its got to be a public effort. They have to be armed with a push from the president and the white house to say this is important. So id like to see the whole National Security apparatus from the president , nfc on down, making this top priority in all the conversations. Tom, you had mentioned the role of the congressional leadership in pushing this ahead. What should they be doing . It is i think my colleagues brought up two very important points. One, it is a National Security issue. It is a National Security issue. I dont think anyone would argue the restructuring of congress after world war ii and subsequent restructuring from the department of war to the department of defense were more aggressive about the oversight of dod. That needs to be understood. This is not a management and organizational issue,