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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 26,2019 Page 20 Sueoka: they're almost finished moving it though. I think the behavioral health was still up there. So that was the only section that was up there. But that was because they didn't want to move part of the folks, they wanted to make sure that everyone moved at once. They didn't want to move two or three. But I heard it's ready. They're all moved up to the Mohouli place already, so that's all taken cared of. Chair Doolittle: Just a little update, we had a request from Veterans Administration for an RFI on our clinic site. We furnished them a complete all-encompassing report on our land site, traffic studies, zoning and the like. They're scheduling a site visit sometime in the next three months we believe for their procurement organization to come out and look at our proposal, site,parking and the like for a permanent clinic CBOC site. That just happened here a few days before our Jazz and Blues Festival. We're waiting for the VA to announce when they're coming. It is a promising development because we've had absolute silence from the VA for the last eight or nine years. It is a positive move forward to identify. Part of the problem in them moving from the hospital site to this site just reinforced in the VA that they need to move forward with a permanent owned facility. We identified and met their requirements it's a 22,000 square foot facility potential. Ours was originally designed at 10,007 feet but there's a second-floor option to give it that 22,000. But anyways, that's a positive development that just happened and after eight years of pushing this. It's nice to have some movement. Where we go in the future is still up in the air. Ongoing Veteran Homeless Problem & Housing Crisis Chair Doolittle: (introduces topic) Sheridan: Do we have any idea of how many Veterans are actually homeless? Chair Doolittle: No, and I don't know where we get that information. Roddy might be able to help us with that. Does the State have any idea? Sueoka: I didn't get anything in our last report. I don't know how we can. I can put something out to see. Chair Doolittle: Well I know about six or eight months ago; I got a notice from Senator Hirono's office and they were advocating they had documented that they homeless population was reduced by 5.8% over a three-year period. That was probably from 14, 15, 16 or 15, 16 and 17. Wery: Is that island? State? Chair Doolittle: No, this was overall. Wery: National?