EXCERPT: USHHS employee who replaced OCAS director Larry Elliott
as the Advisory Board’s Executive Secretary. . .“DR. WADE: It would be inappropriate in an open session to talk about anything that was deemed as business confidential to our contract.” Larry Elliott recused himself. — REFERENCE: the original 27th verbatim meeting minutes; December 13, 2004See EXHIBIT 26: The December 13, 2004, 27th President’s Advisory Board
“CLOSED SESSION” meeting minutes:
Significant EXCERPTS: “. . .the one thing he said also that I want to
emphasize is that that final summary report is -- to the public is a Board report, it's our product. . .” DR. MELIUS STATES, “How is the Board going to report on this at our public meeting tomorrow; what are we going to say. . .? “DR. DEHART: This is a housekeeping issue. We have documents that we may not want to retain. What -- what should we do so that they can be properly destroyed. . .? MS. HOMER: Give them to me; I'll take care of it. . .”* * * * * * * * * *
Other EXCERPTS of concern:
Page 18 “SC&A was asked to and did provide an estimate to complete these efforts. To complete all the work under task one, they're estimating a cost of $1.952 million. Task four would go up to $664,000. The total funding then would be $2.834 million, which would get you very close to your contract ceiling. . . 33 MR. GIBSON: How many contract modifications and contract cost increase and overruns ORAU has incurred with NIOSH or CDC. DR. WADE: ORAU, okay. We'll get that information for you. DR. ZIEMER: Jim? DR. MELIUS: Yeah. A concern I'd raise that -- though, that if we try to lock-step this in terms of let's complete four, stop, review, and then go forward, is that does hold up work and delay work, and it takes us a while to modify things through this process. It's a bit cumbersome because of the Advisory Board and FACA issues and so forth, and I think if we're going to -- if we're looking to take some sort of an approach like that, I think we have to take 