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Absolutely certain going to be a worthy successor to commissioner hur and we look forward to working with her. She is an attorney, was in the general counsels office at mckisson, presently not working at the moment, i understand, other than her family dutis and i told her that means that we have someone that can spend a lot of time on Ethics Commission matters. [laughter ] but were delighted to have her here, and welcome. Thank you, im delighted to be here. All right. Turning to item no. 2 on the agenda, which is Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Any comments ...

Well as across the country. Weve had a lot of conversations about it. In fact this last wokeeek i had great scruggs hosted by Oregon State University with our title nine coordinators. There are a lot of common themes that we heard today, not only emphasizing the importance of the issue, but the regulatory overlap and sometimes conflict. I think youll find a lot of support among this committee for clarifying that. But also the resources needed to address these issues, and im glad weve had a lot of conversations this morning about prevention and the importance of educating students about healthy...

Draw attention to whats i feel is a real urgency and i think everyone else does. I hear a great commonality in terms of our desire to take effective action. And were struggling with what that is. And also, as a parent whos dropped two kids off at college that rite of passage that all of us have shared and the convey answer of that trust that we put in the inls tuitions that we leave them at and the expectation they will not just educate them well but a provide a culture they feel safe and not put in the situation of either being a victim or ap2,m bystand. So my analogy and i appreciate the las...

Dropin, window times by the public to come in, and we are also looking at targeted, stake holders, and our slew of partners that come to visit our counters were planning to reach out to them possibly the week before and we launch and also, do a hands on training with them. And so we have partnered with, or we are partner withing planning to kind of see, whether they will have that and whether we will have the staff at the job in times and figure out what that looks like. Commissioner walker . And may i suggest that we really do an out reach to our Code Enforcement partners. Yes. And get them i...

I also want to say a big thanks to americas new secretary of veterans affairs, Bob Mcdonnell who is here. Stand up, bob. [applause] as some of you may know, bob head of one of the biggest, most Successful Companies in the world. But he also was a west point grad, also a ranger who served valiantly on behalf of his country. And this is a labor of love for him, and he is hit the ground running. Hes heading out to the hospitals and clinics around the country, starting with phoenix tomorrow. So thank you, bob, for accepting this charge and this challenge, making sure that were doing right by our v...