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MS. MENARD: We have regularly scheduled meetings on every other first 
Tuesday of the month. All the meetings are open meetings, open public 
meetings . 
DR. AHMED: Where is this, by the way? 
DR. FREDRICKSON: It is the University of Washington. 
MS. MENARD: Yes, the University of Washington. All the meetings are 
open to the public. We generally have review of the minutes of the former 
meeting, any discussion. ... In November we had a very long discussion 
about whether to allow P3 experiments to go on at the University. 
We review proposals by the investigators. Each individual investigator 
will get up and give a lay summary of his proposal, and there will be dis- 
cussion, he will answer questions, and then at the end of that, if there 
are any other comments by the public, they will be heard. Then we meet in 
executive session and vote on the proposals. 
MR. HUTT: How do you give public notice in your case? 
MS. MENARD: Through the university information services. The meetings 
which are, like I said, regularly scheduled, are passed to the newspapers — 
to the local newspapers, to the city newspapers, to the university daily-- 
and I assume, from also telephone calls to the university information 
services, the radio stations as well. 
MR. HUTT: Do you get many people coming in? 
MS. MENARD: Generally we have about 50 to 60 members of the academic 
community and the public coming to the meetings. It varies considerably 
depending on the weather — how hard it's raining. 
MS. PFUND: Also these meetings, or at least the ones I am familiar 
with, tend to happen in the middle of the day, where it is — 
MS. MENARD: No, ours are all evening meetings. 
MS. PFUND: Well, that's what I was going to say. I think that some 
effort should be made to make it so that working peop] j can attend the 
meetings and not have to break up their working day. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Ms. Menard is a research ass'stant, a laboratory 
technician in a laboratory conducting recombinant T NA research. Mr. Beaty 
is a student member of an institutional committee in Oregon. Do you have 
any further things to add at this point? 
MR. BEATY: Well, I could add that our institutional biohazards commit- 
tee is nowhere near as active as that. There has been no mandate from our 
community to go any more public than we have. 
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