STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3090

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 8

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 8 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO NAME THE NEW CENTRAL OAHU AMBULANCE FACILITY AFTER THE LATE LORETTA FUDDY, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to name the new Central Oahu Ambulance Facility after the late Loretta Fuddy, Director of Health.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that as the Director of Health, the late Loretta Fuddy was a highly respected national figure on health services and public health administration.  One of her first acts as the Director of Health was to save the Maui County Medvac helicopter from budget cuts.  On December 11, 2013, that same helicopter carried her body and the survivors of a commuter plane crash off the Kalaupapa peninsula for further medical treatment.  Director Fuddy was killed in the line of duty while serving some of the most abandoned and marginalized people of Hawaii.  This measure honors Director Fuddy's commitment to public service and public health.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 8 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Technology and the Arts.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair