Agenda for Our Houston Committee Hearings

Agenda: HSCEP Houston Hearing June 18th
Subcommittee on Hurricanes, Flooding and Evacuations
Approx time: 9-11 Rep. Hamilton (chair)

Hurricanes and flooding

1. Robert Eckels, President, Gulf Coast Surge Protection District, Inc


2. Representative of the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission


3. Rice University SSPEED Panel


• Professor Phil Bedient


• Professor Jim Blackburn




4. Professor Bill Merrell, Texas A&M University at Galveston


Evacuations and Re-entry

5. Mark Sloan, Emergency Management Coordinator , Harris County


6. John Wilson, Senior Consultant, Harris County Department of Education


7. Dohn Labiche, Disaster Action Inc, Texas Society of Architects


8. Texas Manufactured Housing Association Panel


• Tommy Blanchard President, World Wide Mobile Homes


• D.J. Pendleton Executive Director, Texas Manufactured Housing Association
  

House Select committee on Emergency Preparedness
Approx time: 11:15-1:15 Full Committee, Rep. Peña (chair)

Industrial Accidents and Homeland Security

1. Judge Ed Emmett, Harris County


2. Port of Houston Panel


• James Edmonds, Chairman, Port of Houston Authority


3. Robin Riley, Board Chairman, Houston Ship Channel Security District


4. City of Houston Panel


• Dennis Storemski, Director, Houston Office of Emergency Management


• Sharon Nalls, Emergency Management Coordinator, Houston Office of Emergency Management


• Carl Matejka, Acting Executive Assistant Chief, Houston Fire Department


• Mike Dirden, Assistant Chief, Houston Police Department


• Gary Schiebe, Lieutenant, Houston Police Department


5. Dale Kohler, Assistant Homeland Security coordinator, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality


6. Robert Janusaitis, President, Houston Chapter of InfraGard


Transnational Gangs and Homeland Security

7. Harris County Sherriff's Office


• Sherriff Adrian Garcia


• Major Robert Doguim


Deepwater Horizon Oil S pill Update

8. Greg Pollock, Deputy Commissioner for Oil Spill Prevention and Response, Texas General Land Office


9. Guy Grossman, Houston District Director, Railroad Commission

Subcommittee on Continuity of Government, Communication and Infrastructure
Approx time: 1:30-3:30 Rep. Dutton (chair)

Continuity of Government

1. Judge Olen Underwood, 2nd Admin Judicial Region of Texas


2. Joe Jaworski, Mayor, City of Galveston


3. Galveston County Panel


• Susan Criss, Judge 212th District Court


• Latonia Wilson, District Clerk, Galveston County


4. Loren Jackson, District Clerk, Harris County


Communications and infrastructure

5. Doc Adams, Emergency Manager Brazoria County


6. John Slanina, Division Vice President for Business Transformation, Centerpoint Energy