Hillary ronan, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton, our clerk is stephanie cabrera. And id like to thank jason goldhammer at sf govtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you. The board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first. Then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line for the public call in number is screening. Sorry streaming across your screen. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions, but youll be muted and in listening mode only when your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star thr
Yesterday, argentina qualified for the world cup. The last time they didnt was 1986. Were we heard some incredible information and context and history in the earlier panel going back to nearly 1980s and the whole history behind nafta. This panel is where the rubber meets the road. Its about farmers and businesses and workers and investors. And were really excited to give that perspective. I would like to introduce the panelists. Andrea van vugt, shes had a distinguished career in the private and public sector. She was the chief of staff to canadas minister of International Trade and the Foreign Affairs trade adviser to the Prime Minister from 2009 to 2014. A time when canada was engaged in both Canada Europe Free Trade Agreements and the tpp negotiations among any others. A time of a lot of negotiations between canada and its trading partners. Ron bennett, the president of the Canadian Federation of agriculture, the lead association of canadas agriculture association. What where find i
Good morning, everyone. The meet being will come to order. Welcome to the november 29, 2017 special meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am hillary ronen. To my left is supervisor sandra fewer supervisor sheehy who is a regular member of this committee is homesick. So i will be making a motion to excuse him in a moment. We have supervisor ahsha safai sitting in for supervisor sheehy to my right. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Part of the files should be submitted to the clerk. This will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. I wanted to thank sfgovtv for covering this meeting. First im going to make a motion to excuse supervisor sheehy, can i take that without objection . Yes. That motion passes without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Clerk item one the hearing to discuss the closing of the subacute nursing unit at st. Lukes
We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally blind. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He moved to nashville where they told him while there were no cures, he could Search Online for a trial. He found a regenerative Clinical Trial in florida, where doctors took cells out of the bone marrow in his hip, and then injected these into his eye. Three days later he began to see. His eye sight eventually improved enough to get his drivers license back and that he became an effective advocate for more support for Regenerative Medicine done the proper way, which we included in the 21st century cures act. Earlier this year he gave me the cane he used when he was blind, said i dont need it anymore. So i
With the best overall entry. Deadline is january 18. Contest details on our website studentcamp. Org. Next, fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Francis Collins testify on medical innovations. They appeared before the Senate Health innovation and Pensions Committee on issues including the Opioid Epidemic, rare disease funding and research into treating addicts nonmedically. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Good morning, the Senate Committee on health and education will come to attention and order. Another bipartisan hearing which is what most of our hearings are which is what bernie and i created on the witnesses. I would say every member of this committee would probably agree on the subject in witnesses today. This is a hearing entitled implementation of the 21st century cures. Progress and the path forward for medical innovation, we will hear from Francis Collins, and doctor Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of food and drugs. We all have as i mentioned a hearing next wednesday on another i