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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes February 25, 2020 Page 3 Brinkley: Ok, first I want to answer a question about the document that I sent out before the last meeting. Someone had asked where the information had come from about the memorials. On the report, there's two clickable sites on the first page, there was an inspection of all the State Veterans memorials by the Hawaii DOD in 2014 and they published a report so that's where I got the information about the cemeteries, Veterans Home, Lyman Memorial at the Hilo Airport, the Pahala memorial and a couple of other ones. That was the first thing I looked at. There's a book that's available online but I can't find a print copy to make actual copies, but it's called War Monuments and Library Collections of 20th Century Conflicts and it goes state by state. That had a listing of a couple of smaller ones. Then, I added that I knew about and also, we added the Korean War memorial, so its possible that there's another one here or there but I think that's pretty comprehensive that I know. The other thing that I know of and they're not really monuments, there are a lot of World War I grave sites all around the County. I do have a list of most of those, but I don't think that's something we want to add to this list. I sent out this morning, I apologize for doing that so late, but it's just a real rough draft of a spreadsheet that took all that information that I put in the previous report, without all the photos but I set it up so it could be printed out a little but bigger than just one page so it's a little bit easier to read so it came out to 4 pages. I just wanted to ask a couple questions about what needs to be on there then I can share it on google docs so people other than I can go in there and make changes or suggestions. Chair Doolittle: Isn't it the intent to make this not only shareable and amendable but also put it on the County's website? Brinkley: Yes, so for right now, I think we just need to polish it and then I'll give it to the people at IT and then can publish it. But there's just some holes in the information that it's going to take somebody to go out and look at these places. I also need some information from Parks & Rec as to who owns some of this property because Parks & Rec maintains it but some of it is State of Hawaii and some, I'm not sure who owns it. Chair Doolittle: I'd imagine it would be a combination of State, Federal and County. Brinkley: Yes, so I just need to go through it with someone at Parks & Rec. Also, I'm not sure if IT is able to do this. Deb showed me this website where you can look at the list and click on parts of it and a map would pop up or a picture. That would be up to IT how they want to do that. One thing I wondered, the State DOD considers the Veterans Home a memorial, but do we want to include it in our list? Emile Wery: No, there's no need. Brinkley: Ok, so I will take that off, several of them are privately owned, do we want to include them in our list? Chair Doolittle: I would think so. Even though they are private, the notation can be made.