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00:00responders so that we can get the input that we need to be able to bring forth the best

00:06information to this committee and to this review council.

00:11I'm very proud and honored to be a part of this committee.

00:15I'm grateful and thankful to Secretary Noem and Secretary Hedzik and to the leadership

00:20of this review council.

00:22Thank you very much.

00:30Any further, Governor Yonkin, from your subcommittee?

00:33Governor Bryant, I was just going to conclude by once again reiterating that the broad participation

00:41and the extensive effort to invite comments from across first responders, mayors, and governors,

00:51and emergency management personnel has been a big effort of this subcommittee.

00:58And again, I want to thank all the members of the subcommittee, and I also want to thank

01:03all of those that will be providing us input.

01:06We have a very extensive mapping exercise that will collect their input and provide us the

01:12opportunity to do exactly as President Trump asked us to do in his executive order, which

01:18is to understand how it works today and how it should work and to be able to make recommendations

01:23on how to get states in the forefront and make sure that we are providing collectively the

01:29best response possible for Americans who need our help.

01:34Governor, thank you so much.

01:36I want to thank you particularly for all the hard work and dedication you put into this effort.

01:41Governor Yonkin and I do talk on a regular basis.

01:44He is very focused on his mission as subcommittee chairman and has done a remarkable job, as

01:51he does as governor of the great state of Virginia.

01:54So, Governor, thank you so much for all of your work and what you're doing.

01:58Again, our prayers go out to you, the people in Texas that you know and are acquainted with,

02:04the loved and the lost there and the structural damage and loss that you've gone through.

02:09So, we hope that the good Lord will dissuade all of the pain and agony of the parents and

02:17the families that are suffering at this difficult time.

02:20Governor, thank you again.

02:22We'll move now to the subcommittee report on disaster response and recovery.

02:27Its core purpose is to evaluate how FEMA could better serve the American people as a supporting

02:34rather than supplanting agency and to identify the necessary statutory changes to achieve

02:40this transformation.

02:42I'll turn now to Kevin Guthrie, Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management

02:47for a subcommittee report.

02:50Mr. Administrator, you're up.

02:53Thank you, sir.

02:54So, Governor, I appreciate the opportunity to present today before you at the Review Council.

03:00I am going to solicit Mark to help me out in NIM's absence.

03:05I know that both of us have been talking to him off and on over the last week or so and

03:09have some of his thoughts.

03:10So, instead of one of us trying to do it, I guess it takes two of us to create one NIM kid

03:16maybe.

03:17But we certainly appreciate everything that NIM's doing out there.

03:21First and foremost, at the Monster Recovery Subcommittee, we started out with several presentations

03:27on statutory functions of FEMA.

03:29These are dozens of objectives over a series of what, in essence, falls into six categories

03:36of work.

03:38That is, first and foremost, foundational authority.

03:42Then it goes into disaster assistance, which is more so the response and recovery.

03:47The National Flood Insurance Program, mitigation, preparedness.

03:52And last of those six categories is the continuity of government and emergency communications.

03:57So, what we're trying to do, more than anything, Governor, is look at these areas in kind of

04:04a two-prong facet.

04:17All right.

04:18So, what we're trying to do is look at that in a two-prong methodology.

04:23And those two prongs are, one, what can we provide to Acting Administrator Richardson today

04:29that we feel he could do with the stroke of a pen?

04:33In other words, things that are very fast-acting, they do not require a change to 44 CFR, 2 CFR,

04:41any type of federal regulation are clearly within his roles and authorities as the Acting Administrator.

04:48And then, secondly, in parallel to that, we're looking at things that are going to take some

04:54type of statutory change that would be, obviously, need to start with Congress and the Senate.

05:02The next thing that we have been doing and will continue to do is conduct listening sessions.

05:06You heard Governor Youngkin speak about that.

05:08You heard Sheriff Rosie and Mayor Jane talk about that as well.

05:11We all continue to do that, both informally and formally, and taking information and digesting

05:19that information.

05:19We've been giving that information to council staff so that they can run the analysis on

05:25that and get it into our presentations as we meet each week.

05:29Something that is starting to emerge, and I shouldn't say starting to, I think we as a

05:35practitioner's group knew that this was always the case.

05:38EMAC, the Emergency Management Assistant Compact, continues to be our

05:41number one go-to thing.

05:43I think what's starting to evolve from that, and we've heard this from numerous directors

05:48and governors, I'm sure the governors have heard this as well.

05:53You see evidence by Texas, you see evidence by New Mexico and other disasters that we've

05:59had around the country this year.

06:02Governors will send their staff.

06:05And I will tell you, as a governor, working directly for Governor Ron DeSantis, he never asks

06:11me the question, he always does the right thing.

06:15He sends the people out the door.

06:17We'll figure out the reimbursement later.

06:19But at the end of the day, governors will be much more apt to send their individuals out

06:23the door if they know they're reimbursed.

06:25And how can we improve that?

06:28And we think we have some ways that we will be recommending to the acting administrator as

06:33well as potentially to help get that done so that governors know that when they do send

06:41help, they're ultimately going to be given a bill and that come out of local taxpayer dollars

06:47versus coming.

06:51Last, what things that's naturally, I shouldn't say last, second to last, what are things that

06:59have traditionally been affected that may be able to be taken over by another partner or

07:04a non-traditional partner?

07:05For example, we've already had associations starting to come forward saying, you know what,

07:10we used a tad bit more money, we could actually take on that role and do that.

07:17I'll give you one example, EMAC, back to where I started from.

07:22EMAC is typically overseeing in large city managers association, and they continue to want

07:29to play an active role in that.

07:31So could they do more?

07:32I think the answer is they're ready, willing, and able to have that conversation.

07:35And some personnel at the NOC or the RCCs and some other things that may be able to help

07:42traditional federal government and maybe put that back into a better, more highly functioning

07:50space.

07:51And then the last thing is we continue to have a conversation about figuring it out, and

07:56I believe this might be happening at the governor's council as well, but parametric insurance is

08:04what is the role for parametric insurance in disasters as we move forward?

08:09You know, those specific parameters, could you have a parametric, the simple answer is

08:15yes, that's centered around debris removal.

08:17That is probably the act that comes out of a disaster removal, followed probably very closely

08:27by emergency protective measures.

08:32And then as you get into the permanent categories of work, is there a place there?

08:37Some of our former administrators have probably some ideas and concepts as well.

08:44So those are the things that we've been working on.

08:46I'm going to turn it over to Mark, speak about anything else that I may have forgotten or that

08:52he's also talked to them about.

08:54Thanks, Kevin.

08:55Being part of this subcommittee is an honor for me.

08:57You know, you've got three of the best emergency managers, probably with Bob Fenton representing

09:03FEMA and, of course, Kevin and then NIM.

09:05And they all have dealt with it.

09:07So the American people should have comfort in knowing that you've got people that have

09:12the right recommendations.

09:15You know, in our last meeting, the secretary gave us the directive to go out and meet with

09:19stakeholders.

09:20And we've taken that very seriously.

09:21And I know Kevin already referenced that.

09:23We are going to be doing listening sessions.

09:26We've got one tomorrow here in Louisiana.

09:29But we've also invited the state emergency management directors from Delaware.

09:33We call them the lower Atlantic hurricane states down to Florida.

09:36I'll be with us tomorrow to give their input, as well as Governor Landry's organizations here

09:42in Louisiana as well.

09:44We're also looking at doing one on the West Coast, in the northern states, and then also

09:49with Tornado Alley.

09:50And I think, again, the American people know that we're trying to get input from citizens,

09:57from parts of the country that deal with different types of disasters, from hurricanes to wildfires

10:03to, you know, the flooding that we're seeing tragically in Texas.

10:07We're really good about that, that we're going to be able to give the secretary what she asked

10:10with this input.

10:11And it's going to take a lot of effort.

10:12We have the short time frame, but we are giving it our best effort to do that.

10:17So that's all I have to add to what you have to say.

10:20I appreciate it, Mark.

10:21And, you know, I think Mark honed in on one thing.

10:24I know that there was a lot of social media posts and ghosts, if you will, of individuals

10:30who felt that this particular makeup was a lot of hurricane in the United States individuals.

10:39I will tell you, this response and recovery group has painstakingly made sure that we

10:45have gotten out of our boxes, out of our states.

10:49I've been communicating with the New York State Commissioner for Emergency Management,

10:54who gave me a very, very well-thought-out process of preparedness metrics that she was able

11:02to pull together.

11:03For instance, 73% of all preparedness dollars in the state of New York have gone to all but

11:09about 14 nationally declared disasters.

11:14202 of those disasters were not federally declared.

11:18And 73% of the people that responded to those were trained by, directly through FEMA preparedness

11:27dollars.

11:28I think that's the type of stuff that we don't hear about.

11:31And we need to hear more about that, how the federal funding is being affected in these

11:38states.

11:38So again, we have been listening.

11:42As my mom used to say, God gave you two ears and one mouth to listen twice as much.

11:46And we've been doing that.

11:47So I would say we're going to continue to do that.

11:52And I appreciate Bob, I appreciate Mark, Nim, for their leadership on this council.

11:57And we look forward to bringing you more recommendations.

12:03Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

12:04I hope you can all tell the two subcommittees have been heard.

12:07The practitioner subcommittee, as we refer to it, has done an outstanding job.

12:12And those that have input that would like to discuss more about experiences with FEMA, but

12:21how we might make it better for their states involving governors, involving emergency managements,

12:27United States military personnel, law enforcement, all are invited.

12:30I want to welcome and thank also Brock Long for being here, former FEMA administrator, and

12:38Craig Fugate, two former administrators of FEMA about it.

12:44So, gentlemen, thank you.

12:46A wealth of information.

12:47I would suggest to the committee, let's get all their knowledge that we can before we allow

12:52them to leave here.

12:55Today is the final subcommittee report.

12:58Of course, that will not happen officially until 20 May of 2025.

13:05But Chairman Watley, any comments to make regarding, I think, the final report or what you've seen

13:13here today, the two subcommittee reports?

13:14Well, thank you, sir, and really appreciate your leadership here.

13:18I also want to thank, you know, Secretary Noem and Secretary Hegseth for their leadership

13:24on this committee, which is so absolutely critical.

13:28And Governor Landry, I want to thank you.

13:30You and Louisiana have shown the rest of this country how to respond to storms.

13:36The amount of information that you have accumulated back through Katrina and previous storms, where

13:44we are today, the rest of the country needs your leadership very much.

13:51And thank you so much for hosting this.

13:53You know, I've had a chance to review all of the information that has been put together

13:58so far, you know, by female.

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