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Special HCHA meeting November 15, 2019 <br /> Division in San Francisco and we also have...he'll introduce himself...are you <br /> going to come to the table too? <br /> Chandler: I was going to let Kevin... <br /> Eoff: Let him...okay...we'll let Kevin introduce you at the right time...okay. And <br /> we have some people from our Mayor's Administration with us. So today were <br /> gunna do things a little but different, were gunna wait till the end of your <br /> presentation to hear some comments from the public so if everyones okay with <br /> that just stay tuned and hopefully if there's time we can answers everybodys <br /> questions. Okay. So you'd like to re-introduce yourself and go ahead... <br /> O'Neil: I'm Kevin O'Neil. I'm one of the Assistant Directors... <br /> Eoff: I'm not sure if your mics on...is there a light? <br /> Multiple: press the bottom...press the button <br /> O'Neil: There we go, okay...ahhh...it's on... Kevin O'Neil, one of the Assistant <br /> Directors in the Disaster Recover Special Issues Division. I am the new manager <br /> of the San Francisco Office. Our division went through some re-organization and <br /> instead of running everything out of headquarters in DC, now we have five <br /> regional offices around the country and so my office covers everything from <br /> North Dakota to Siena Mie. So we have the west and the pacific. So big region. <br /> So that's where I will be operating from. We do have some staff that just <br /> started...one person starting, another one down the road, that they'll working in <br /> Mark...that's Mark Chandler...he's the CPD Director...they'll be working from the <br /> Honolulu office with CPD, they'll be managing the pacific grants. So we have <br /> Brian Davidson is the one staff person we have there now and another one will <br /> be coming shortly. <br /> I'm gunna talk very generally about the disaster recovery program and I have to <br /> do a disclaimer this...the federal register notice has not been published so <br /> everything I say is theoretical and general. There's no specifics. Because the <br /> federal register notice has...nothing is positive until the federal register notice is <br /> published and things are official. So everything I say is general and theoretical. <br /> So I'm just go through this is the disaster recovery, its part of one of the reasons <br /> we did the re-organization is cause disaster funds have increased by about 45 <br /> billion dollars just in the last three years, about three four years around the <br /> country. All across...just...all across the country 30 states, territories, 28 local <br /> governments that receive disaster funding right now, actively. This is the history <br /> and actually one of the earliest disasters grants that HUD managed was the Iniki <br /> one here in Hawaii. We haven't been here in a long time but we will be back. <br /> Page 2 of 31 <br />