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San Antonio, Texas Listening Session

Environmental Protection Agency
Aging Initiative Public Listening Session
San Antonio, Texas
April 8, 2003

Comments from the San Antonio, Texas Listening Session

Listening Panel:

Carl Edlund, P.E. EPA Region 6, Director, Multi-media Planning and Permitting Division

Dr. Fernando A. Guerra, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Health San Antonio Metropolitan Health District

Marcy Meffert, Mayor of Leon Valley, TX and Chair, Alamo Area Council of Governments

Toni Miles, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and at large member of the Executive Committee at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Donna Morstad, M.P., Senior Aging Policy Analyst, Texas Department on Aging

Al J. Notzon, III, Executive Director, Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG)

Dr. Arlan G. Richardson, Ph.D., Director, Aging Research and Education Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)

Carol Zernial, Director, Alamo Council of Governments, Bexar County Area Agency on Aging

Public Speakers:

Peter Bella, Natural Resources Director, Alamo Area Council of Governments

Tommy C. Calvert, President, Neighborhood First Alliance

Robert C. Dawson, San Antonio Coalition for Environmental and Economic Justice

Thomas C. DeChant, City-County Joint Commission on Elderly Affairs, San Antonio, Texas

Rita Eason [PDF, 157 KB]

Newton Ellison

Charles English, President, Jefferson Heights Association

Gabriel Fernandes, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, UTHSCSA

Vivianne Gardner

Sister Janet Griffin

Katy Hubener, Blue Skies Alliance

Joel Karin [PDF, 125 KB]

Lou Ann Ligon [PDF, 214 KB]

Ruth Lofgren [PDF, 186 KB], Ph.D..Water Chair, League of Women Voters

Angel Marie Martinez [PDF, 169 KB], Southwest Workers Union

Roger McCarter [PDF, 84 KB], Ph.D., Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Physiology, UTHSCSA

Carolyn Meyer, Member, League of Women Voters and Member, Sierra Club

Claudia S. Miller, M.D., M.S., Department of Family And Community Medicine, UTHSCSA

Nicholas Monreal, Jr., Bexar County Area Agency on Aging Ombudsman

Ann Elizabeth Morris [PDF, 139 KB]

Raymond Palmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UTHSCSA

Michele Petty, San Antonio Global Renaissance Alliance

Eiginio Rodriguez [PDF, 3,062 KB]

Steve Saldana [PDF, 259 KB], President, Catholic Charities for San Antonio and South Texas

Ed Scharf

Leon Thomas, United Homeowners Improvement Association

Loretta Van Coppenolle

Georgia Zannaras [PDF, 144 KB], Ph.D., AACOG Resource Recovery Manager

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Aging Initiative
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Room 2512 Ariel Rios North
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Phone: 202-564-2188

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