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Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency Briefing
Jun 17, 2021 12:00 PM
Dr. Robyn Rodriguez is the Chief of Research for World War II China-Burma-India theater and Korean War losses at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). She has worked at DPAA (and its predecessor, JPAC) since 2011 as a historian and research supervisor and led teams operating in Germany, Poland, Russia, the Philippines, China, and South Korea. Prior to entering federal service, she was a Fulbright fellow in Germany and earned a PhD in military history from The Ohio State University. She will be providing a brief overview of DPAA, PowerPoint slides on her work at DPAA and will participate in a Q & A with your members
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency Briefing Come join us for a very interesting presentation on recovering our fallen hero’s by a special organization. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is an agency within the United States Department of Defense whose mission is to recover United States military personnel who are listed as prisoners of war, or missing in action from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world, including:
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Proposed Changes to Storm Water Management on Oahu
Nov 18, 2021 6:30 PM
Randall Wakumoto will presenting on proposed changes to storm water management on Oahu. Background: The City is looking into changing how it pays for storm water management (runoff and flooding from rainwater, cleaning streams and culverts, maintaining storm water sewers and other infrastructure). Currently, the Department of Facility Maintenance, Storm Water Quality Division (DFM), the department in charge of this, is funded through property taxes. The proposed change, which would have to be approved by the City Council, would involve the creation of a new fee to be assessed on all properties (including those that are currently exempt from property tax, such as those owned by the Federal, State and Local Governments, schools, churches and non-profits). The model that has been studied by DFM, and which has been adopted by many other jurisdictions around the country, is the formation of a Storm Water Utility, with independent, predictable funding, not dependent on allocations from the City Council. A proposal has been developed, including what the fee would look like, and whether there would be hardship or other credits for properties if they took measures to manage their own runoff on-site. Over the past 2 years, we have been conducting outreach, including two rounds of community meetings and meetings with various stakeholders. Currently, we are reaching out to Neighborhood Boards and Rotaries to see if we can present the details of what this change would mean for property owners around Oahu. |