[roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio prompts will signal to dinein participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in when the item you wish to com
Heidel stre zb. Okay. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Port Commission on september 8, 2020. The meeting was called to order at 3 15. [roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio p
[inaudible] i know youre familiar [inaudibl [inaudible]. Testing. Can you hear us . We can. From the top well pick up where i left off . If you could start from the top, please. Welcome, everybody. Today is our first hybrid hearing in the subcommittee under the new house rules. Some members will appear in person and others appear remotely via web x. Youre familiar with web x, but remind everyone after few points. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone pursuant to the latest physician, all persons must wear a Face Covering except when recognized. Members not wearing a Face Covering will not be recognized. Let me make a few reminders of hybrid hearings, for those appearing in person youll see those appearing remotely on the two monitors in front of you. On one monitor appearing remotely in what is known as the web x as grid view mode. On the other monitor, you will see each person speaking during the person when theyre speaking, including members who are
Committee. The committee will come to order. I would like to point out we are glad to have two representatives velazquez and plaskett and join us in the questioning as we pursue this hearing. I recognize myself for five minutes for Opening Statement. Im convening todays subcommittee hearing to examine preparations by fema to respond and helping our nation recover from Natural Disasters which will overlap with the nations efforts to fight the pandemic. Fema is responsible for coordinating response and Recovery Efforts for all domestic disasters including the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A has struggled to anticipate the severity of multiple disasters due to Climate Change and contracts for supplies and retain and deploy key personnel. As United States continues to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, in a recent surge of cases across the country, its clear this unprecedented moment has left all of us in unchartered territory. People have called the year 2020 apocalyptic. It does feel l
Welcome back. If you can please take your seats. Looking forward to the next panel around some of the clinical advances that have been made over the past 50 years by virtue of the National Cancer act. You know, as a former nci director, you know that one of your greatest assets and some of your best friends are those heroes who agree to become Cancer Center directors, because they have to deal with the complexity of everything from supporting basic research on one end of the spectrum to all the way to the other end of the spectrum with regard to training, clinical research, cancer prevention, et cetera. Being a director is a challenge. Were very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel dr. Steve rosen who was the for 24 years the director of the robert h lauri and is the head of the Beckman Research center at city of hope. He has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now to much of the academic progress thats being made, havi