Perna serve this Community General the armys material for nearly four years leading 190,000 military, civilian and contractor employees with a mission to provide logistics, sustainment, maintenance for globally deployed army. General perna is a career logistician to estimate complex supply distribution and Maintenance Operations in multiple combat tours with on the joint force and serve as at the national supporting department of defense supply and Distribution Efforts so as this with the back and its easier when he was selected for this critically important position. General perna graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy and has a masters degree in logistics from the Florida Institute of technology. General perna will provide introductory comments and then befuddled by dr. Hepburn, ahead of Vaccine Development. Following dr. Hepburn general perna will come back specifically to talk about Vaccine Distribution and then we will move into a questionandanswer period that ed and i a
Mayor breed and the governor looked at the restrictions and the meet is held the conference and televised by sfgov. Tv. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgtv. Id like to extend thanks to the staff and i. T. Staff for their assistance during the meeting. Id also like to note on the published agenda there was an incorrect dialin number for this meet. The correct dial in number is scrolling on the live feed. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item call the number. Before you have the minutes of july 28. Are there corrections or additions to these minutes. Seeing none id like to open it up to moller caen are there corrections or are there comments. Please press pound, pound to speak. Are there any callers. Theres one caller with their hand raised. Ill unmute them now. Speaker you have two minutes. Clerk this is regarding the minutes. Mr. Moderator are you still there . Speaker, if you can hear us
We have a quorum. Very good. Secretary can you please make the announcement. Mayor breed and the governor looked at the restrictions and the meet is held the conference and televised by sfgov. Tv. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgtv. Id like to extend thanks to the staff and i. T. Staff for their assistance during the meeting. Id also like to note on the published agenda there was an incorrect dialin number for this meet. The correct dial in number is scrolling on the live feed. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item call the number. Before you have the minutes of july 28. Are there corrections or additions to these minutes. Seeing none id like to open it up to moller caen are there corrections or are there comments. Please press pound, pound to speak. Are there any callers. Theres one caller with their hand raised. Ill unmute them now. Speaker you have two minutes. Clerk this is regarding
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Proud moments when we persuaded her to do that. So im honored to kick off what i know will be a fascinating discussion about the influence oof the influence ofeurope on tl marketplace. Last year the wall street journal called the decline of europe a force in World Affairs the most consequential shift of the last 100 years and there is some truth in that since world war ii military influence of europe is certainly declined, and its also true the Economic Growth has been compared favorably with that of the United States or for example with china or india. And of course efforts to maintain an Economic Union have been more complicated greatly as we all know. But still, i think professor bradford sees things a little differently and in her book the brussels effect of the European Union rules the world which is here and also back there and you must have a copy, professor bradford argues that it remains a critically important economic superpower and makes the case very persuasively that conti