On february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid19. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene remotely through the end of the shelterinplace. This will be our 24th remote hearing. Remote hearing requires everyones attention and most of all when not speaking mute your microphone and turn off video camera. Sfgovtv is streaming this live. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. And entering access code 146 717 8911. When we reach our item, press star, then 3 to be added to the queue. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. When you have 30 seconds remaining, youll hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When your time is up, i will take the next person queued to speak. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and please mute the volume on your television or computer. Co
Remote hearing requires everyones attention and most of all when not speaking mute your microphone and turn off video camera. Sfgovtv is streaming this live. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. And entering access code 146 717 8911. When we reach our item, press star, then 3 to be added to the queue. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. When you have 30 seconds remaining, youll hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When your time is up, i will take the next person queued to speak. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and please mute the volume on your television or computer. Commissioner koppel here. Commissioner moore here. Commissioner chan here. Commissioner diamond here. Commissioner fung here. Commissioner imperial here. At 1301, stockton street, conditional use authorization is proposed for october 8. Item 2, 2018, 2124, conditional use auth
We are glad to have become today. We will change the methodology little bit. We have two votes. When i 2 45 and one following that vote. We are going to run the hearing continuously. We going to waive Opening Statements. We will go straight to secretary mcdonell to make his full statement. Then we will go into q and a. With your cooperation, will work with those two votes. If we do shutdown, it will only be for a couple minutes. Let me welcome everybody to this meeting of the Center Veterans affairs meeting. I think todays hearing will be equally as good as last week. The commission on care is a great project that examined the veteran administrations Delivery System for our veterans and had a lot of recommendations. A lot of provoking recommendations. I appreciate the embrace that secretary mcdonell has given to ideas from others that have come in. We have talked a little bit about them. He will have a great testimony. ,et me welcome the secretary Robert Mcdonald to make his testimony.
Dedicated to serving them. Thats what va is to veterans and thats why you dont find veterans demanding Community Care as the only choice. The demand for that only choice comes from elsewhere. It doesnt come from veterans. Veterans know better. I have tested this during my time as secretary, when somebody tells me that veterans should only have the choice of the Choice Program, i ask them are you a veteran . And by and large the answer is no. And then i ask to be here in between votes and, mr. Secretary, pleasure that you are here with us as well. I have a specific set of circumstances that ive addressed to you in a letter and want to follow up in this setting today. And i have no doubt but what you and other officials at the va are sympathetic and concerned and want to resolve the circumstances we find ourselves in with a particular employee at a particular va hospital in our state. We have the circumstance just to set the background for my questions, we face one of the worst examples
Former be a secretary has a recommendation on how to change the department. How would you fix the Pa Health Care system . System . A. Health care 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853881 for republicans. For independents. Send us an email or send us a tweet. Good friday morning. A friend page has the story about the 1700 waiting list at the v. A. Facility in phoenix, arizona. The department of Veterans Affairs is now instructed has now instructed those vets that they can see a physician immediately even if its a private physician. This story from the los angeles cbs as the white house does not have it yet on the official schedule, the president is expected to meet with the be v. A. Retary cash with the to meet with the v. A. Secretary. As the bipartisan outrage builds on capitol hill after a scathing report from the department of Veterans Affairs, the issue today is the v. A. Secretary who will provide his own findings to the president. The front page of todays washington post. Bowing ac