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December 4, 2008 By Corey McKenna
Photo: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has until January to appoint a secretary for the new California Emergency Management Agency.
California's AB 38 -- signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger in September -- established the California Emergency Management Agency as a Cabinet-level entity responsible for emergency management and homeland security operations and set the deadline for appointing a secretary at January 1, 2009.
Schwarzenegger has less than a month to decide on a plan to merge the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Governor's Office of Homeland Security into the new agency.
"While serving as chair of the joint committee on emergency services and homeland security we heard from first responders over and over again how they wanted to see the two agencies merge into one," said Pedro Nava, assemblyman from the 35th district and chairman of the Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security.
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