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This was from the president ial ideas festival hosted by the university of virginias miller center. We appreciate you coming, we have some other panels going on at the same time, we will try to make it worth your while. Today we are really lucky, i am a former speechwriter for president obama. We are also really lucky to have sarah and john. Jeff who works for resident click and was supposed to be here but he had a conflict that kept him in d. C. We have some questions for these two, and then we will take any questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being...

My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts off as an idea ends up in a speech, sometimes the speechwriting process starts before ...

Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coro...

Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coro...

That will be provided, absolutely. Are you short equipment right now . Every local jurisdiction needs more personal protective equipment. I cannot emphasize how important that is. Given the need to protect our Healthcare Work force. We asked at the federal level for more in terms of what is availability. All local jurisdictions that i have talked to and i am aware of are working under a short supply. This is a key gap in our ability to collectively respond to the epidemic. We are working locally, regionally and state level to develop more uptodate guidelines with regard to what is the necessar...