Here. Cleaveland, present. Nakajo, present. Hardeman, present. Chief of department joanne hayes white, here. Item to Public Comments. Members of the public may just the commission for up to 3 min. On any matter within the kurt jurisdiction does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address the remarks of the commission as a whole not to individual commissioners were Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of her spots by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with the support of statements made during Public Comments. Thank you please take mdm. Clerk. Other any members of the public that would like to speak on matters not on the agenda . Hello my name is sylvia johnson. I was speaking to one of your [inaudible] commissioners Scientific Technology and that these codenames have been written. It says on their on these codes, that these things are going to happen under certain wa
You can move it back or further up. You can make it suburban or urban. We have many different road types, intersections. Basic principle is that you are able to repeat the testing in a consistent manner. What is your goal with all of this testing . Our goal is to help all of the corridors quarters in this industry. Who are some of the stakeholders . Who are involved in this research . A lot of stakeholders. You look into the Automotive Industry and you have your automobile manufacturers including chrysler and gm. You also have all of their tier ones and startups in the area. Withe communicators spoke the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center which runs them city. Which runs m city these cars do not coordinate with one another except that you look at the size of the car in front of you, the brake light and the turn signal. That is the only communication. But communication can be so much richer and more efficient if we start to have a communication opport
This week the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit where Car Companies are using and it test site called mcity to tryout new technology. Carmakers art spearman did with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and talk to roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer traffic accidents. We spoke with a transportation analyst who studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center. Host Debra Bezzina where are we right now . Guest we are at the university of michigan in what we call mcity. Mcity was built specifically to test, develop connected and Automated Vehicles. Host and this is a store in your background. Guest this is a storefront. Basically you can create different scenarios for connected and Automated Vehicles and trying to target the ones are difficult. You want to test and be able to repeat so when you are out on the street its hard to be able to repeat consistently so if youre behind
Public policies that should reflect the definitive body of science that show significant positive Health Impacts that companion animals have on human health. The va says it doesnt have enough evidence to support Service Animals for veterans who have pts, we disrespectfully disagree and thats why we support hr4764. We believe there is significant Scientific Evidence to support the efficacy of service dogs for veterans who have pts. We funded the first systematic review on research of animal assisted gervention that was conducted at Purdue University dr. Fallonsal ma matter and it was published less than a year ago and what it found was preliminary evidence that animals provide unique elements to address pts symptoms and i think its also really important to note because mr. Diamond said whats the harm. This systematic review of published and Unpublished Research found no negative effects from any of these studies, so no harm was found in any of the research that we looked at. So, we thin
[gavel] good morning and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for today thursday september 29. I am the chair of the committee. Supervisor aaron peskin. Joined to my right vice chair norman yee and to my left president london breed and were joined by david campos. Our clerk is erica major. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. Items acted upon today anybody r will be on the eakt 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you read the first and only item for todays meeting . Yes. Item 1 is ordinance amending the administrative code to create the neighborhood crime unit in the mrs. And activated with the controller certifies that the department is at full staffing level mandated in the charter. Thank you supervisor yee is the sponsor of this ordinance. The floor is yours supervisor. Thank you c