Bill Text: HI SCR194 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Concurrent Resolution 194 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu And Department Of Emergency Management Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Create A Community Resilience Plan For Disaster Preparedness Along The Waianae Coast.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to PSM. [SCR194 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2023-SCR194-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	194
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

requesting the city and county of honolulu and department of emergency management of the City and County of Honolulu to create a community resilience plan for disaster preparedness along the waianae coast.

WHEREAS, it is necessary for government agencies to plan for responses to natural and human-caused emergencies, including but not limited to emergencies resulting from tsunamis, wildfires, hurricanes, and hazardous material leaks and spills; and

WHEREAS, Hawaii is unique in its emergency management situation due to its remote and isolated locale in the northern Pacific Ocean; and

WHEREAS, the Waianae coast is particularly isolated due to its geographic location on the west side of Oahu with a four-lane highway serving as the only entrance and exit in and out of the community, which stretches twelve miles from Nanakuli to Kaena Point; and

WHEREAS, the forty-eight thousand community members of the Waianae coast are served by just one primary emergency medical center, the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, with Queen's Medical Center-West Oahu located approximately twenty miles from the Makaha and Makua areas; and

WHEREAS, the Waianae coast has seen extreme weather before, including in 1996 where a fifteen-day rain event produced twenty-four inches of rain in Makaha Valley where annual rainfall normally ranges from twenty to forty inches, and in December 2008, where a storm produced twelve inches of rain within one day causing Farrington Highway to be impassable for several hours; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2023, the House of Representatives concurring, that the City and County of Honolulu and Department of Emergency Management of the City and County of Honolulu are requested to create a community resilience plan for disaster preparedness along the Waianae coast; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Waianae coast resilience plan is requested to:

(1) Be community-based and developed in collaboration with local businesses and residents;

(2) Inventory all services, tools, food, shelter, water, medicines, and other resources available that would enable the community to be self-sufficient for a period of three days; and

(3) Be developed in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu and Director of the Department of Emergency Management of the City and County of Honolulu.