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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 26,2019 Page 4 Lewis: Like he mentioned the church, if it's being maintained we ought to do an assessment to say how well maintained is it? Messina: Well the one's that are on our land, I'll get our guys to do an assessment. Lewis: well the ones that are on your land often times they are very visible so often times you'll have graffiti, or you'll have something because you'll have people going to them. But you have others that are pretty remote. But the idea is making sure we have who is assigned, the ones that are in disrepair, I don't know if we have any like that. But it probably depends whose land is it on. Chair Doolittle: Well this list is pretty well done. It shows who owned or maintained it. I'm sure if all of them have that. Lewis: Right, but you can do that in a spreadsheet and identify where the gaps are and prioritize any effort that needs to be done. Just make sure that 1)people are aware. We just need the best source and we can update it. The more visible we make it I think people will step forward. Chair Doolittle: And as Moe said it, if the County crew, all the ones that are on County property. I think one of our missions would be to try and get an information thing out like a public service announcement or something of that nature. Or find a way to advocate through the school systems or the like for people to want to adopt a monument. Lewis: But you make it available, easily available online. Nahakuelua: Boys Scouts of America would be good. Wery: Yeah, Boys Scouts of America would be good. ROTC is another example, Hilo High School ROTC, they may want to be... Messina: the best way to do this is, because you are the Mayor's Committee, you could ask the Mayor's Public Information Officer to send out a new release a call for volunteers or something like that. Go to this website here and these are the ones we need help with. Sales: It may sound laborious to have an idea where Veterans, well speaking Veterans can go out to these organizations, schools and say hey, this is what were asking of the community. To me, the whole idea to having the community involved is that they don't forget. To give them a reason for remembering. Chair Doolittle: Well that would be a good PR campaign, is that once you identify groups that are willing to step up, we send out a couple of Veterans to go out and give a talk. Lewis: We don't want to step on the toes of people who are already maintaining it. The idea is the gap.