STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1106

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NOS. 523, 618

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred Governor's Message Nos. 523 and 618, submitting for study and consideration the nominations of: 

 

Enhanced 911 Board

 

G.M. No. 523

RYAN FREITAS,

for a term to expire 6-30-2016; and

 

G.M. No. 618

DAVE KAJIHIRO,

for a term to expire 6-30-2015,

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

RYAN FREITAS

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of Ryan Freitas from the Department of Accounting and General Services and seven individuals.

 

     The nominee is the Director of Network Reliability of Hawaiian Telcom, Inc., and has worked in a managerial capacity for that company since 2005.  Mr. Freitas has thirteen years of experience in telecommunications, including five years of experience operating 911 networks on Hawaii.  Mr. Freitas has been serving as an interim Enhanced 911 board member since October of 2012.  Mr. Freitas has also worked for Verizon Wireless.

 

     Mr. Freitas received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Puget Sound, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hawaii.  Mr. Freitas is a member of Delta Mu Delta (National Business Honor Society), St. Louis Alumni Association, Young Business Council of Honolulu, Puget Sound Alumni Association, Easter Seals Hawaii, and American Cancer Society.

 

DAVE KAJIHIRO

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of Dave Kajihiro from the Department of Accounting and General Services and nine individuals.

 

     The nominee has served as a police officer with the Honolulu Police Department for twenty-eight years.  He is presently serving as the Department's Deputy Chief of Police for Administrative Operations.  He has also supervised the Department's Telecommunications Systems Section and Information Technology Division.  For the past three years, Mr. Kajihiro's duties have included the oversight of the Department's Communications Division, which serves as the primary public safety answering point for approximately seventy-eight percent of all 911 calls statewide.

 

     Mr. Kajihiro received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  He is also a graduate of the National Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Mr. Kajihiro has been serving as an interim member of the Enhanced 911 Board since October of 2012, and is a member of the Governor's Commission on Crime; Joint Traffic Management Center Executive Committee; Juvenile Justice Information System Committee; and Law Enforcement Information Exchange Board.  He is also a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police; Police Chiefs of Hawaii Association; and Law Enforcement Coalition.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominees, has found the nominees to be qualified for the positions to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nominations.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair