Talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, its so very weird. Im used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where theyre all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them . Lets listen. Hi guys. I kind of have stage flight when im on t. V. Because im normally quiet . Shes never quiet. No, im not quiet. My sister was, like, i saw you on t. V. My teacher was, i saw you on youtube. It was exciting, how the community started watching. It was a lot of fun. It also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. I want to end today with a thank you. Thank you for spending time with us. It was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. Im so happy to see you today. Today is the last day of the school year, yea it really helped me in my teaching. Im excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. We received a lot of
Then pound, and pound again. You will hear the meeting but be in listening mode only. When your item is called, press star, three to enter the queue. Thank you, so welcome, everyone, to this regular meeting of the our city, our home Oversight Committee. It is november 17, and we will call the roll. [roll call] we will move into item 2. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item call 4156550001, enter meeting access code 1462611651, press pound, and pound again. Press star, three to enter the queue for Public Comment. Please start speaking when the system indicates you are unmuted, and you will have three minutes. There are no Public Comment. Okay. And i just wanted to say we will have two hours today, so we wanted to be realistic with our agenda, and i know there was a lot of interest in looking at our bylaws, our procedures, and then talking some more about Decision Making criteria, so i just wanted to expla
Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
A Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. To this newdjusting way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as it goes through and think the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined , you willplatform receive a message shortly from bailey,ur staff, morgan in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website bipartisanpolicy daughter, and a eventsll be on the bpc page under the health section. Later this morning, you will have an opportunity to submit your questions to our Task Force Members vie the q and a function at the bottom of your screen. To the purpose of this event, personally coming from a rural area of indiana with our family farm still operationa
Today the subcommittee holds a hearing entitled combatting the opoid crisis, battles in the states. Make no mistake, the term combatting and battles are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of a tremendous fight against death affecting every corner of our nation. There were more than 52,000 deaths in overdose. A 20 increase in the prior year. It was almost seven time it is rate of death from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. We learned we have lost roughly 60,0 0 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year than all the names on the vietnam veteran memorial wall. That is likely underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of next year. For every fatale overdose there is 20 nonfatale overdoses and for 2016 that could be near one million. More than 130,000 lives have been lost between 1999 and 2015. Thats about 50,000 oh 500,000 will be lost over the next decade. The roots began in 1980 when a letter was misinterpreted as evidence it was unlikely