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<br />Interagency Task Force on VOG <br />September 29, 2011 <br />9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. <br />Hilo, Hawaii <br /> <br />Members in Attendance <br />Quince Mento <br />Edward Teixeira <br />Faye Hanohano <br />Robert N. Herkes <br />Gilbert Kahele <br />Fred Blas <br />Brittany Smart <br />Darren J. Rosario <br />Mary, Correa <br />Diana Van De Carr <br />Jason Moniz <br />Eric Kawamoto <br />Aaron Ueno <br />Nona Wilson <br />George Applegate <br />Salvador Panem <br /> <br />Newton Inouye, Department of Health <br />Theodore Miller, Department of Transportation Highway Division <br /> <br />Quince Mento called the meeting to order at 9:03 a.m. on Thursday September 29, 2011. <br /> <br />Object of the interagency task force in conjunction with the state interagency task force on sulfur <br />dioxide hazards is to present a report to the legislature twenty days prior to the regular legislative <br />session 2013. <br /> <br />Introductions and poll what members feel is the objective of task force and what they know. <br /> <br />Edward Teixeira, State Civil Defense State’s course of action was to develop an interagency task force on <br />sulfur dioxide hazards to address problems with health issues, in schools and with agriculture and more, <br />which was an all encompassing group while this group is more of a grass root group. <br /> <br />Robert N. Herkes, Representative Fifth District this should be a sounding board where the public can go <br />to for concerns about vog. He has two scenarios 1. Site location where community can come in to get <br />answers. And where the task force goes out to the community and has meetings with various groups <br />and in various locations. 2. Issues based. Representative Herkes prefers a site based group. <br /> <br />Brittany Smart, Councilmember District 6, she hears concerns are health and safety, where to go to, <br />when to evacuate, at what level. There should be one location to get information on vog. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />