Lines of Transportation Committee will come to order. For the purposes of a hearing. We are here this morning at the full for improving a rail safety and response to the bailment. The witness table. [background noises] [background noises] good morning everyone. They hearing will come to order. On february 3, the town of East Palestine, ohio experience a Hazardous Material event that no community should have to suffer from a Norfolk Southern train carrying Hazardous Materials crash just outside the town 38 cars, more than a quarter of the train was derailed. Plastic pellets for monday drilled cars caught fire engulfed other railcars including five carrying vinyl chloride. After burning for two days, authorities became concerned the vinyl chloride was undergoing a Chemical Reaction that made it bigger and more dangerous. They then initiate a controlled burn of the chloride and five tanks to create greater catastrophe pre2000 residents were forced to evacuate and a eight community was for
San Francisco Health commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting from august 1, 2023. I believe there was some kind of correction, so secretary morewitz, if you can share that with us. Page 2 of the revised minutes i added Public Comment for Robert Rinehart and apol
Couldnt be here today so i have the privilege to chairing and delightful to see all you here today. This is the biggest in person attendance we had since before the pandemicism i want to acknowledge the presence of former Health Commissioner margene sako. Well start with roll call. [roll call] wonderful. Now, commissioner gerardo will read the land acknowledgment. The ramaytush oholone and acknowledgment. The San Francisco Health Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging
Like youre ready. Thank you for your presentation and although my skill sets around this area are limited, i do understand it, so thank you for that and thank you to your staff for the work to get this done in two months. Er thank you. Since were thinking, i dont want to forget our legal team and our Legal Counsel has been exceptional, shes not here but i want to say that for the record because without here, i dont think you could have gotten here in two months. So, commissioners, i think all of us remember this very long journey, some of us, those who were here, commissioner bernal is excused for not remembering, four years ago when we started even with a whole series of presentations regarding the nature of i. T. And where it was and that we cant have an ehr without a more structured i. T. Department. With the patients that we have exhibited here waiting for that to come about and then the last several years also looking at partnerships and then finally an rfp which we thought would
The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi