We will call the hearing to order today we are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency to discuss the Response Recovery to hurricane harvey, irma and maria and the wildfires spread across california. Thank you for being here to join us. The magnitude of the disaster we are experiencing this year is unprecedented. I want to thank you and the thousands of personnel who deployed and continue to work tirelessly to help the communities and families get back on their feet in the wake of every instance of the devastating events. Congress has passed to emergency supplementals that are providing an additional 26 public and to ensure the ability to respond to the aftermath of disasters. Now its time to shift focus is from response to recovery and while some of these efforts are already underway there is a long road ahead. Please before i get to you i want to introduce the ranking member. Welcome mr. Administrator to your first appearance before the subcommittee. Th
Can give you triple honors, again, its really been a fascinating just watching you and listening to everyone working and come in with the qualitative data in a way you can understand and review and see its astounding so really honor is ours, thank you. Commissioner. This might be a Monkey Wrench question, when i look at this has been a really clear and education at presentation and the question in my mind is when we talk about Contingency Planning why arent earthquake part of it because a lot of the work that we are going inform move forward with with the seismic retro fit and you know and moving like the departments, its really contingency important that no other natural disasters happen at this period of time. The last big earthquake is 1989 and theres no predictions when the next one is. Like has the department actually talked about having a contingency plan if like in three years theres a earthquake and that was before we actually moved any of the departments, you know, what would
Time we have a plan that is more thought out and more comprehensive than most that weve had in the history of the department and were in a gook and projected and to and were on good track. Yes, commissioner. Can you go, oh yes back to this diagram, you realize this looks like the digestive cycle dont you . [laughter] maybe these are kidneys. [laughter] i do want you are learning our language. Maybe its just conscious. Commissioners, youve been with greg now for probably almost an hour and so i do want to recognize that the depth of his knowledge of all of these areas and his leadership in this area and weve worked hard at ensuring the stabilization of the Department Around capital pieces its a sharing economy in the department where we really want to focus on our Service System so our patients and our staff will have Safe Building and weve also given up three times our ability to move this building to ensure that people here also have than opportunity so i think were the closest becaus
[laughter] i do want you are learning our language. Maybe its just conscious. Commissioners, youve been with greg now for probably almost an hour and so i do want to recognize that the depth of his knowledge of all of these areas and his leadership in this area and weve worked hard at ensuring the stabilization of the Department Around capital pieces its a sharing economy in the department where we really want to focus on our Service System so our patients and our staff will have Safe Building and weve also given up three times our ability to move this building to ensure that people here also have than opportunity so i think were the closest because one of my jobs was moving out of this building when i first started over 20 years ago and again its a volatile sometimes process and especially if the economy changes but i think were very, very close for having this solid plan for this and i am very hopeful that we can and to all this planning were doing but i want to acknowledge all the s
Looks like the digestive cycle dont you . [laughter] maybe these are kidneys. [laughter] i do want you are learning our language. Maybe its just conscious. Commissioners, youve been with greg now for probably almost an hour and so i do want to recognize that the depth of his knowledge of all of these areas and his leadership in this area and weve worked hard at ensuring the stabilization of the Department Around capital pieces its a sharing economy in the department where we really want to focus on our Service System so our patients and our staff will have Safe Building and weve also given up three times our ability to move this building to ensure that people here also have than opportunity so i think were the closest because one of my jobs was moving out of this building when i first started over 20 years ago and again its a volatile sometimes process and especially if the economy changes but i think were very, very close for having this solid plan for this and i am very hopeful that