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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes December 8, 2020 Page 3 resource for us to have. I'm just really stoked that you've done a fabulous job so far. Any other comments? Brinkley: Alright, so what I'll do as far as resources, I'll gather a list and maybe circulate it and have people tell me what other sources. Carolle Brulee-Wilson had given me some resources a while back. I think I can come up with a pretty good list, but I may not know all of them. Chair Doolittle: We might enlist Veterans and maybe our own members, the sites we don't have information about we can add later and updating the site and that would be good. How are we doing on soliciting groups to volunteer to adopt a site. Brinkley: Antonio invited me to Hawaii State American Legion meeting about a month or so ago and several other Posts around the island volunteer to take specific sites, so we've added them. DAR have not voted in their new President, but I've proposed to them that they can monitor cemetery 2 because they already have someone who is doing that. So, we have about four different sponsors so far. That's probably about eight totals. Some of these sites are tiny like a plaque on a fence so they don't need a specific organization but maybe just one person managing the site. Chair Doolittle: I've been doing unofficial weed pulling at the Veterans Memorial Park in Hakalau, it's not very big but it is a good one. We like to keep that up. It would be good to find some kind of PR campaign to solicit community groups and the like to adopt a site and try to move it forward. Maybe by the end of this pandemic we can have a good site operating. That would be a monumental achievement for our group. Do we have anything more to add? Brinkley: Did you want me to talk about the cemetery 2 issue now? Chair Doolittle: Yeah, we may as well. Brinkley: Mary Yoshida who's a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, her husband is buried at Veterans Cemetery 2, she brought it to the attention of several of us at various times and also to the Parks & Rec guys sometime in the past about violation of rules at the cemetery. It's very upsetting to her and it does violate the rules. I've got photos, one has beer cans and another one has stuffed animals. There are rules against planting vegetation, flowers and plants in the ground but there are some there. And apparently, it's been going on for some years, she and I both talked to Christine who talked to the department head at that time and they said they would post signs that you can't have all these extra stuffs and says the rules and they would give them a deadline to remove the items themselves or parks & Rec would remove them. And it worked to some extent but some of it is really bad with extra stuff and it's beyond sentimental, it really just looks like trash. She's the one I've been mentioning, she goes out there and monitors the situation. What she was told by the groundskeepers is that they were told to remove the things but some of the families were grumbling and protesting. I'm not sure what