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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 26,2019 Page 9 Updates from Deputy Director, Parks & Recreation Maurice Messina Chair Doolittle: Moe had an update, but he's gone. Sheridan: Brittany had it in the email. Gaspar: Columbaria, they started work November 12. I went up to the cemetery and they were making five things there. I saw the construction company working there. I never go last week so I don't know how far they are. Minoru Hanato: They're working on the columbarium project, during funeral days they knock off for the time that were doing the funeral and then they go back after. As far as the flagpole mount of the Pu'u it's already done. All the material was donated by Lowes, Home Depot and HPM. The job was done by volunteers and mostly by Boys Scouts, Cub Scouts and Konawaena ROTC members including the CO, Major Naki. But it's done and we will use it on Veterans Day and Memorial Day and any special day. Chair Doolittle: Sounds like a lot of volunteers and a lot of progress. Hanato: It was really great. What I failed to do on Veterans Day was to recognize everybody that participated. I was kind of under the weather plus I was doing everything else. Chair Doolittle: Well thank you for your efforts. NEW BUSINESS Discussion on Committee's Recommendation to Mayor & Council Chair Doolittle: (Introduces topic) I brought this up, it's kind of addressing our charge as a committee that we find, I didn't see anything in the records, at any point did this committee make any recommendations to the Mayor and the Council on Veterans issues and I wanted to get some discussion and guidance from Counsel on what do we do in this process of all these things we discuss, how do we distill that down and put it in some kind of advocacy recommendation document and when would it be appropriate for us to do that. Deputy Corporation Counsel J Yoshimoto: My recommendation would be, the committee draft a report basically addressing the issues that the committee feels that the Mayor should know about and take action upon. What the background is, what the issues are and what type of suggestions or ideas the committee has. Similar to what you're doing with the memorials and monuments. The committee wants to make recommendations on specific actions that the Mayor's office can assist on. The format would be a report, timing would be whenever the committee is ready to move forward with that report. How it would work is, it would be submitted to the Mayor's office and then it'd be up to the Mayor to act upon it.