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<br />Interagency Task Force on VOG <br />Tuesday November 20, 2012 <br />4:00 p.m. <br />Civil Defense Agency <br />920 Ululani St. <br />Hilo, Hawaii <br /> <br />Present: Benedict Fuata, Chair <br /> Faye Hanohano, Representative of the Fourth Representative District <br /> Gilbert Kahele, Representative of the Second Senatorial District <br /> Merlyn Harris, Ka’u Hospital <br /> James Wheler, Department of Land and Natural Resources <br /> <br />Not Present: <br /> Loretta Fuddy – Department of Health <br /> Doug Mayne, State Civil Defense <br /> Aaron Ueno, Department of Health, District Health Office <br /> George Applegate, Big Island Visitors Bureau <br /> Salvador Panem, Department of Transportation Highway Division <br /> Mary Correa, Department of Education Keaau-Pahoa <br /> Fred Blas, Council District 5 <br /> Robert Herkes , Representative of the Fifth Representative District <br /> Brittany Smart, Council District 6 <br /> Gerald Kosaki, Hawaii Fire Department <br /> Robert Irvine, Hawaii Health System Corp <br /> Jason Moniz, Department of Agriculture <br /> <br />Others Present: <br /> Janet Babb, Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory <br /> John Drummond, Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency <br /> Duane Hosaka, Hawaii county civil Defense Agency <br /> <br />Benedict Fuata called the meeting to order at 16:02. <br /> <br />Approval of August 2, 2012 minutes. <br /> Motion to accept moved by Faye Hanohano and seconded by Merilyn Harris. Motion to approve <br />minutes passed. <br /> <br />Reports: None. No new reports out on the vog. <br /> <br />Unfinished Business: <br /> Follow up on Ron Ebert on monitors being down and not reported. We need to follow up with <br />Department of Health. <br /> Robert Herkes’s resolution the legislature, to extend the life of the board. We would have to <br />wait until March or April for this go before legislature. The initiative of the task force was to receive <br />input from the public. Our biggest showing was in February 29, 2012, in Pahala. There was zero <br />testimony in Pahoa and in Hilo. <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />