Committee Hearing, May 24, 2000 (part 2)

But I appreciate the opportunity to testify. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. I need to add some letters of testimony that have been shared or left with us and add it to the record as if it had been read. We have testimony of: Rachael Milenbach, from the Tobacco 288 5/24/00 PUBLIC HEALTH - BILL 000314 Control and Prevention Program from the Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania; Testimony of Mr. Jeffrey Barg, Chairman, Tobacco-Free Education and Action Coalition for Health, also known as TEACH; The testimony of Dr. Clarke Piatt, from Temple University Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; The testimony of Mr. Michael Smith, on behalf of the American Lung Association of Pennsylvania; And the testimony of Mr. Joseph Minott, Executive Director of the Clean Air Council. I do not believe there's any other testimony to be added to the record, and we have worn out the public from trying to testify on this particular bill and we've worn out a few Councilmembers as well. I have been authorized by the Chair of the committee to recess this hearing until Wednesday, May 31st, at 3 o'clock p.m. This committee will stand in recess until Wednesday, May 31st, at 3 o'clock p.m., when we will continue testimony as well as discussion about the elements 289 5/24/00 PUBLIC HEALTH - BILL 000314 of Bill 000314. With that, the hearing is adjourned. (Adjourned at 8:55 p.m.) - - - 290 C E R T I F I C A T E I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing proceedings of the Council of the City of Philadelphia of Wednesday, May 2000, were 8 reported fully and accurately by me, and that this 9 is a correct transcript of same. 10 11 12 13 RE: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 14 BILL NO. 000314 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 __________________________________, 22 JOSEPHINE CARDILLO, 23 Registered Professional Reporter 24 25