THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Will Espero, Chair

Senator Robert Bunda, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF INFORMATIONAL BRIEFING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

TIME:

1:00 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

 

What would happen to Oahu if a category 4 hurricane were to strike Waikiki and downtown Honolulu?  Are we prepared to deal with the destruction and aftermath of this type of natural disaster?

 

Participants:     Testimony

           

                  Ed Texeira             Vice-Director of Civil Defense, State of Hawaii

                  Melvin Kaku          Director, C&C Department of Emergency Management (fka Civil Defense)

                  Theodore Born      FEMA Regional IX

                  Francis Genco        Booz Allen Hamilton

                   

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter, wheelchair accessibility, or parking designated for the disabled) please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6823

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Will Espero

Chair