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4 THE 21ST LEGISLATURE
5 INTERIM OF 2001
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9 JOINT SENATE-HOUSE INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE HEARING
10 DECEMBER 19, 2001
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14 Taken at the State Capitol, 415 South Beretania,
15 Conference Room 325, Honolulu, Hawaii commencing at
16 9:10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 19, 2001.
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20 BEFORE: MYRLA R. SEGAWA, CSR No. 397
21 Notary Public, State of Hawaii
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1 APPEARANCES:
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3 Senate-House Investigative Committee:
4 Co-Chair Senator Colleen Hanabusa
5 Co-Chair Representative Scott Saiki
6 Vice-Chair Senator Russell Kokubun
7 Vice-Chair Representative Blake Oshiro
8 Representative Ken Ito
9 Representative Bertha Kawakami
10 Representative Bertha Leong
11 Representative Barbara Marumoto
12 Senator Norman Sakamoto
13 Senator David Matsuura
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Good
3 morning, Members. We'd like to convene our joint
4 investigative committee to investigate the State's
5 efforts to comply with the Felix consent decree.
6 We'll begin with roll call.
7 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Co-Chair
8 Saiki?
9 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Present.
10 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Vice-Chair
11 Kokubun?
12 VICE-CHAIR SENATOR KOKUBUN: Here.
13 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Vice-Chair
14 Oshiro?
15 VICE-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE OSHIRO: Here.
16 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
17 Representative Ito?
18 REPRESENTATIVE ITO: Here.
19 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
20 Representative Kawakami?
21 REPRESENTATIVE KAWAKAMI: Here.
22 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
23 Representative Leong?
24 REPRESENTATIVE LEONG: Present.
25 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
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1 Representative Marumoto?
2 REPRESENTATIVE MARUMOTO: Here.
3 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
4 Senator Sakamoto?
5 SENATOR SAKAMOTO: Here.
6 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: We have a
7 quorum.
8 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Thank
9 you, Members. At this time we'd like to recommend
10 that we go into executive session for the purpose of
11 discussing our final report and responses received by
12 interested parties to the investigation. Is there
13 any discussion? If not, let's take a roll call vote.
14 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Motion is to
15 go into executive session. Co-Chair Saiki?
16 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Yes.
17 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Vice-Chair
18 Kokubun?
19 VICE-CHAIR SENATOR KOKUBUN: Yes.
20 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Vice-Chair
21 Oshiro?
22 VICE-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE OSHIRO: I.
23 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
24 Representative Ito?
25 REPRESENTATIVE ITO: I.
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1 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
2 Representative Kawakami?
3 REPRESENTATIVE KAWAKAMI: I.
4 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
5 Representative Leong?
6 REPRESENTATIVE LEONG: I.
7 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
8 Representative Marumoto?
9 REPRESENTATIVE MARUMOTO: I.
10 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Senator
11 Sakamoto?
12 SENATOR SAKAMOTO: Yes.
13 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Motion has
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15 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Members,
16 we'll convene our executive session next door and
17 we'll reconvene our public hearing at 9:45 in this
18 room. Recess.
19 (Recess from 9:12 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.)
20 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Members,
21 we'd like to reconvene our hearing. At this point
22 we'd like to make a motion to basically accept our
23 final report. The motion is actually at this point
24 is for persons to accept our draft report as our
25 final report and this was a draft report that was
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1 submitted to the committee on December 3. Attached
2 to that will be a Chapter 3 which will contain
3 conclusions.
4 We will also append to our report the
5 responses received from various individuals, and I'll
6 go through the list of those individuals. Perry
7 Confalone on behalf of Dr. Richard Kravetz and Linda
8 Hufano, comments submitted by Dr. Tina McLaughlin of
9 CARE, comments submitted by Kaniu Kinimaka-Stocksdale
10 of Na Laukoa, comments submitted by Pat Hamamoto from
11 the DOE, comments submitted by Edwin Koyama who's the
12 internal auditor for the DOE. Comments submitted by
13 former superintendent Paul LeMahieu, comments
14 submitted by John Kofel, President of PREL, and
15 comments submitted by Dr. Bruce Anderson of the
16 Department of Health.
17 We will also include in our final report
18 the committee's comments or responses to the
19 responses submitted by these eight individuals. Is
20 there any discussion on the motion? If not, we'll
21 take a roll call vote.
22 SENATOR SAKAMOTO: What about the
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24 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: What Senator
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1 comments exceeded or have attachments because they
2 would have exceeded three pages, you want us to
3 announce where people can find those specific
4 attachments. The attachments will be made available
5 on the web site as well as any clerk's offices
6 suppository all of our information, and that records
7 will be made in the report as well.
8 SENATOR SAKAMOTO: Thank you.
9 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: And the final
10 report should also be available on the web. Again,
11 Members, distribution of the report will probably be
12 on December 26.
13 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Is there
14 any other comments? If not, we'll take a roll call.
15 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Motion is the
16 acceptance of the final report of the committee as
17 stated by Co-Chair Saiki. Co-Chair Saiki?
18 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Yes.
19 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Vice-Chair
20 Kokubun.
21 VICE-CHAIR SENATOR KOKUBUN: I.
22 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Vice-Chair
23 Oshiro?
24 VICE-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE OSHIRO: I.
25 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
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1 Representative Ito?
2 REPRESENTATIVE ITO: I.
3 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
4 Representative Kawakami?
5 REPRESENTATIVE KAWAKAMI: I.
6 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
7 Representative Leong?
8 REPRESENTATIVE LEONG: I.
9 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA:
10 Representative Marumoto?
11 REPRESENTATIVE MARUMOTO: I.
12 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Senator
13 Matsuura?
14 SENATOR MATSUURA: I.
15 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Senator
16 Sakamoto?
17 SENATOR SAKAMOTO: Yes.
18 CO-CHAIR SENATOR HANABUSA: Motion is
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20 CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVE SAIKI: Well,
21 Members, pending any other further subpoenas, we will
22 adjourn our committee hearing. Thank you very much.
23 (Hearing adjourned at 10:19 a.m.)
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1 C E R T I F I C A T E
2 STATE OF HAWAII )
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3 CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU )
4 I, MYRLA R. SEGAWA, Notary Public, State of
5 Hawaii, do hereby certify:
6 That on Monday, December 3, 2001, at
7 9:11 a.m., the hearing was taken down by me in
8 machine shorthand and was thereafter reduced to
9 typewriting under my supervision; that the foregoing
10 represents, to the best of my ability, a true and
11 correct transcript of the proceedings had in the
12 foregoing matter.
13 I further certify that I am not an attorney
14 for any of the parties hereto, nor in any way
15 concerned with the cause.
16 DATED this 2nd day of JANUARY 2002, in
17 Honolulu, Hawaii.
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22 MYRLA R. SEGAWA, CSR No. 397
Notary Public, State of Hawaii
23 My Commission Exp: 1-27-2005
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