The committee will now come to order. Good morning to everyone. The purpose of this hearing is to examine how state policies like those in missouri are impacting residentsaccess to comprehensive Reproductive Health care services, including abortion. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that, i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. And he was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country extreme forces in some State Governments are taking drac
The committee will now come to order. Good morning to everyone. The purpose of this hearing is to examine how state policies like those in missouri are impacting residentsaccess to comprehensive Reproductive Health care services, including abortion. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that, i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. And he was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country extreme forces in some State Governments are taking drac
Hi, everybody. You are rather welcome to call me shelley. I have have the privilege of welcoming will working with commissioner lloyd over a number of years. I have worked at meta fund which is a health and aging foundation located here in San Francisco. My background is actually in the Health Department work. I came from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health before moving to San Francisco. I have really had the opportunity to work deeply and closely with communitybased organizations, but i am happy to be working in the mirrors office as of yesterday. I am catching up. It is very nice to meet you all and i look forward to working with you. Welcome, shelley. Thank you. Next item. Item two is the approval of the minutes. Each will require a vote. The minutes of october third, 2019, which was the joint hearing of the Planning Commission and october 15th, 2019. Commissioners, do we take them separately or together. That is your call. But review them. Any comments you wish to make wi
About the process. As you were doing the validation , the baselines that have been established, are they going to change, or are they going to be modified . And how soon will you be establishing those . Are they in the same priority that was mentioned in terms of which ones are going to be focused on first . I would say it is in the same priority. So backing into it, our goal is, by the start of the next fiscal year, july 1st, to have established what those metrics are so we can begin to collect that data right away and report on it. In order for us to do that, getting back to january, we need to have some sense of which ones are looking like they are going to be doable and validated so that we can come back to the table as a network and say, okay , here is the potential universe of data that has been validated. Of this, how much of this support are true north pillars and particularly some of the metrics we have already identified . We feel the metrics we have now are appropriate and h
Welcoming will working with commissioner lloyd over a number of years. I have worked at meta fund which is a health and aging foundation located here in San Francisco. My background is actually in the Health Department work. I came from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health before moving to San Francisco. I have really had the opportunity to work deeply and closely with communitybased organizations, but i am happy to be working in the mirrors office as of yesterday. I am catching up. It is very nice to meet you all and i look forward to working with you. Welcome, shelley. Thank you. Next item. Item two is the approval of the minutes. Each will require a vote. The minutes of october third, 2019, which was the joint hearing of the Planning Commission and october 15th, 2019. Commissioners, do we take them separately or together. That is your call. But review them. Any comments you wish to make with regards to them . Any editorials you wish to make, please let me know. I move the ap