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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes December 8, 2020 Page 7 Lewis: I do, I'm with the Women's Memorial one, which is a national one. (inaudible). But we don't have the parade listed. So, when we look at the ones, we have one there, like the IOOth Battalion, we probably aren't going to want that one on there anymore. Yoshimoto: OK, Minoru which one do you belong to? Minoru Hanato: I am representing the independent. Yoshimoto: You're At -Large? Ok, we'll put you At -Large, we have one for At -Large. Emile. Michael, do you know what organization Emile is representing? Chair Doolittle: Korea War Veterans would be the organization. Yoshimoto: Ok, I see it. We have a vacancy in Camp Tawara, Navy League, Combat Infantry Association and Military Order of the Purple Heart. Chair: I think we really need to have some kind of review and reallocation. I guess that's something that has to go through the County Council. (inaudible). Yoshimoto: Correct, I can draft that legislation and long as the Committee lets me know what changes needs to be made. Lewis: Yeah, Combat Infantry has like two members. But I think that's the same as Emile and (inaudible). His daughter is the Commander right now. Purple Heart has three members. I don't even know if Navy League ... who was with that. Navy League has non (inaudible). Chair Doolittle: I would make a suggestion, that we pick out what the major core veteran organizations are and have members from those and the balance of the committee be At - Large like Minoru. Because we're having a problem with this allocation and getting people from those organizations to step forward and volunteer. It would be more appropriate if we have VFW, HIVM, American Legion, DAV, the prominent groups and then have the rest be At -Large members. That's a discussion we need to have. I would like to have Emile in that discussion because he was adamite about that at the beginning of this committee's tenure. Lewis: Council do you have a suggestion. Yoshimoto: You could form an ad hoc committee and discuss this amongst the committee members to see what changes need to be made or you can just discuss it as an entire committee. We could agendize it for the next session. You're ok, to communicate with each other individually, Sunshine law says you have to form that ad hoc committee. Lewis: So, do we make a motion to form that ad hoc committee.