On Thursday, November 20, 2025, at 1:05 PM, the Public Safety and Economy Committee of the Honolulu City Council met remotely and in person to consider several agenda items, including appointments to commissions, a resolution affirming constitutional rights, gifts to the Honolulu Zoo, a bill on police information release, and an informational briefing on federal funding coordination. The meeting lasted approximately two hours and included testimony from numerous community members, students, and organizational representatives.
All right, good evening, good afternoon. Sorry, everyone. It's one oh five PM on a Thursday, November twentieth, twenty twenty-five. I caught a meeting on public safety and economy meeting to order. Pursuant to section ninety-two dash three point seven, Hawaii revised statutes. This meeting will be conducted as a remote meeting by interactive conference technology with the following procedures in effect for the meeting. Members of the public will be allowed to provide our testimony on all items on the agenda in person in the council chamber and remotely when each agenda item is taken up. As both English and Hawaiian are official languages of the state of Hawaii, pursuant to Article 15 section four of the Hawaii State Constitution and Section One Thirteen of the Hawaii Revice Statutes, members of the public may testify in either language or testimonies offered in Olela Hawaii. Additional time may be necessary, will be allowed for the testify to provide an English translation of their testimony. Before testifying, each person shall state their name. Once in-person testimony has concluded, I will proceed to remote testimony. All persons who have registered to testify remotely by video conference or telephone will then be called upon. When your name is called, please monitor your screen and activate your audio feed when prompt. For persons who are testifying by telephone only, I will identify you by the last three digits of your phone number. When the number is called, please listen for the prompt to unmute and press star six. When I call for anyone else standing by remotely, please utilize the zone raised hand uh button to indicate your desire to speak. For these joining us by telephone only, please press star nine to indicate your desire to speak. So friendly reminders and tips, video conference from a quiet location if possible. If you are watching the proceedings on Olelo, please mute your television when you call to testify. When the timer on the screen reaches zero, please conclude your remarks promptly. HR section 92-3.7 requires that all votes at remote meetings be conducted by roll con as unanimous. Therefore, I will first call for objections. And if there are any, I will call for a roll-call vote. Written testimonies include testifier's email address, the phone number, and will be available to the public as described on the posted agenda. As a courtesy, please turn off all cell phones for the duration of the meeting. Want to welcome council member uh Santo Stam as well, Councilmember Wire. Item number one resolution 25-292 confirming the appointment of Anna Nubauer to serve on the Citizens Advisory Commission on Emergency Management, the City and County of Honolulu for a term to expire on March 31st, 2030. Members, we have a proposed CD one submitted by myself for your information. The amendments are listed on the agenda. And um I think Anna is here. Is Anna here? Okay. Anna. Yeah. Thank you. Aloha, thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be here and appreciate the opportunity to be considered for this commission appointment. Um we're excited to be able to continue to support the disaster response efforts in Oahu for both animals and people. And I think this would be a great furtherance of the collaboration that we do with the city and county already to have um our representation on on this commission. Members, any questions for the testifier? Okay. Um we'll proceed with in-person testimony in the council chamber. Is there anyone that wants to testify? Chair, there are none. Okay. Uh remote. Chair, there are none. Okay, members. Uh, we are in discussion. All right.