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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 26,2019 Page 15 Hanato: Can I say something? I do the Military Honors, when we do firing outside of the cemetery, I notify the Police department, Fire Department, I even notify businesses in the area, so everyone knows what we are doing. Very recently we did one at Yano Hall for a fallen Veteran, I called Parks & Rec, Brittany and she called me the same evening letting me know that the Director is okay with that. But I let everyone know, including Police Department and Fire Department what we are doing, where we are doing it. Lewis: So, what you're saying is that you didn't trigger the requirement to have insurance to do it this time. Hanato: We've been doing it for 20 years and I didn't know we had to have insurance. Lewis: Well we're not certain but in our case, we were triggered by our request to have any kind of support or use, we're required to have the insurance. Wery: If you're on State property, you have to have a Special Use Permit. Chair Doolittle: Well I understand that, but I could send out an email and say hey were all going to get together and meet at the monument and 100 people show up and I don't need insurance. What is the difference requiring you to have $400 worth of liability insurance merely because you're going to...? Wery: If you're going to apply for a Special Use Permit you've got to go through DLNR for that, they require that. That's the State's policy. We did that for the dedication because we were going to put up tents, we weren't just going to meet there. Chair Doolittle: I kind of feel like this is conspiracy on the part of the insurance companies to give us all that we have got to fund their operations for some reason. Wery: No, it's always been a fact, here in Hilo. If you're going to DLNR and you're going to have a firing squad, you had to have insurance. If you're just going to go there and have a little ceremony, they don't care. But we got a Special Use Permit because we were going to put up tents and occupy the parking lot. But we didn't have to get insurance because we weren't going to have a firing squad. Gaspar: The State DLNR wants American Legion to have liability insurance regardless of whether or not were going to have firing squad or not. (inaudible) Wery: I think there's some confusion on that. Lewis: Can we (Counsel) get some clarity on that? Yoshimoto: With DLNR, yeah, we don't have any jurisdiction on that. You have to go to State.