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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes February 23,2021 Page 9 Lewis: I wonder if whit says is true, you can look at the vacancies that exist with those organizations. I believe there were four that are a challenge, I don't know how long we want to wait to nominate people to fill the positions. Chair: It's like whatJ was mentioning though, we need Council approval to make any changes in the committee make up. Lewis: If you can make a recommendation to do those positions. Chair: I would make a recommendation right now. (inaudible) HIVM, those are active organizations, I'm not sure what other organizations are really active that provides us with membership. Aren't we authorized 10 members or is it more than that. Brinkley: I believe it's 12, isn't it? Chair: Yeah, I believe it is. How many active members do we have currently? Yoshimoto: By my count seven. Chair: We have seven current active members, so that means if we have 12 authorized then we're five short. (inaudible) The more people we bring to the table with more ideas the more involved we get in every aspect. Lewis: I think looking at the list, we know that Military Order of the Purple Heart it's been vacant. Vacancy of Korean War Veterans. CampTawara has not furnished anyone for quite some time. Navy League has not, although I'm kind of stumped, because I would've thought Navy League, but definitely Combat Infantrymen's Association. So in my head, it's those four and then we can decide. Chair: I had talked with Mike a while back when we had our first Wednesday group active and he was the leader of the Infantrymen's Association and back then they only had five or six active members. Apparently, it's not one of those organizations that a lot of people join and their initiation fees are rather expensive and maybe that's part of the reason. I would suggest we go to more at-large memberships then maybe divide that out to regional representation so that the County has more representation from around the County instead of just centrally located areas like Hilo and Kona. Lewis: I would also suggest to consider at-large members because what we want is active members. People that are going to be active in the community and making sure that we fill that. I think if we fill those positions, we can get that kind of representation. Chair: I would almost suggest that half of the seats on the committee be at-large from the regional areas on the committee. Lewis: And that would do it. Who's in the at-large seat, J, is that Isaac?