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Veterans Advisory Committee <br />Minutes December 8, 2020 <br />Page 10 <br />like because we all have a vested interest in not only resolving the issue of homelessness <br />but there's a huge mental health problem with the homeless and that's a national problem <br />and how we deal with it is certainly a lot deeper than what we can do in this committee. <br />There's no doubt about that. It became a particular problem during this pandemic that <br />everyone was afraid to get near anybody on the street for fear that they were infectious. <br />Any more comments about that? I'd like to personally talk to you Isaac, about this. <br />Nahakuelua: Alright, just let me know when. <br />Chair Doolittle: I think we got as far as we can with that one. <br />Reference Donations for Veterans in Need <br />Chair Doolittle: Introduces topic. I don't know where that issue came from. Anybody <br />here representing that? Item number C on our agenda. Nobody present today was <br />responsible for putting that on there. Ok, I don't have much to say about that and I don't <br />know what its in reference to. It just says, "Reference donations for veterans in need." <br />That's almost like a VFW Welfare fund. No comments? <br />Lewis: All I can say is that most of our groups are either shutdown or (inaudible)we can't <br />just shutdown, we got to find a way to make some money to keep our doors open. So <br />were still active but most of them are hurting. We normally have our fund; I didn't put <br />that on the agenda that I can remember. Maybe I'm losing it too. I didn't put it on the <br />agenda but (inaudible) we don't have a lot of funds here. There are still some grants out <br />there. But it's interesting that you said Hope Services didn't want to take the homeless for <br />example because they have a house that is for veterans. <br />Chair Doolittle: Yeah, that issue came up because only one of the homeless at the site <br />was a veteran and he drifted off to the woods and didn't want anything to do with Hope <br />Services. But the rest of the group nobody wanted to touch for fear of COVID infection <br />and the testing wasn't really well established at that time. We didn't have any venues for <br />testing these people. Their contacts were kind of out there in the wilderness and the <br />amount of junk they collected in a couple of months took 6 dump truck loads to clean the <br />site. It was not a good situation to say the least. It just brings up the issue about the <br />homeless and what we do. Every agency of government is all under a lot of economic <br />stress right now. Any suggestions we come up with today were really not going to find <br />any solutions until this COVID thing is under control. I think it's just time to table that, <br />we'll address that at another time. Is that acceptable to everybody? <br />Lewis: yes. <br />Summary of Agendas Done Since Committee was Formed & <br />Submit a Rellort to Major Kim and Thank Him for SuI212ort <br />Chair Doolittle: Introduces last two topics of new business. Just review where we are and <br />where were going so, we can also submit a report to the new Mayor about where we've <br />been and where were going. That's going to require all of us to review the issues we've <br />