Oversight: Emergency Planning and Management During and After Hurricane Sandy: Shelter Management

The New York City Council - February 5, 2013

Introduction

On February 5, 2013, the Committee on General Welfare, chaired by Council Member Annabel Palma; the Committee on Aging, chaired by Council Member Jessica Lappin; the Committee on Health, chaired by Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo; the Committee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Council Member Jumaane Williams, and the Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, and Disability Services, chaired by Council Member G. Oliver Koppell (collectively “the Committees”), will hold an oversight hearing entitled “Emergency Planning and Management During and After the Storm: Shelter Management.”  This hearing will explore and review the management and conditions of evacuation shelters and the services provided to evacuees, storm victims’ access to shelters, the treatment of populations with special medical needs in evacuation shelters, and the system of hotels used as transitional shelters.  Witnesses invited to testify include representatives of the New York City Department of Homeless Services, the New York City Department for the Aging, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, advocates and volunteers.  This is the fifth in a series of Hurricane Sandy related oversight hearings conducted by the Council.

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