STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3530

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 70

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 70 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO INSTALL A NEW EMERGENCY SIREN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF AUMAKUA STREET AND AUHUHU STREET IN UPPER PACIFIC PALISADES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to install a new emergency siren near the intersection of Aumakua Street and Auhuhu Street in upper Pacific Palisades.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21 and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the lack of audible, functioning sirens in the Pacific Palisades may create a public safety concern in the event of a critical public emergency. Your Committee further finds that residents living in the Pacific Palisades area assert that they are unable to hear the emergency siren located at Pearl City High School. Additionally, the emergency siren at Palisades Elementary School has been inoperable for several years. Your Committee concludes that a new emergency siren is needed in the upper Pacific Palisades area to keep residents alerted to all civil defense emergencies in a timely manner to take any necessary safety measures.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding language to urge the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency make the installation of an emergency siren in Pacific Palisades a top priority; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 70, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 70, S.D. 1.

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

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair