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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes May 25, 2021 Page 9 Iyo: I think there are at least two people, Laurie and I don't know if you can see Brian Harrington who is also on the call, he's interested in assisting with our committee. We can set a date in June. I don't know if there's a particular day, maybe a Tuesday afternoon since our meetings are usually on Tuesdays. We can look at the 15th, June 15, or the 22nd, or the 29th. That would give us enough time to get the draft from Sue Lee Loy, gather an agenda and post it. Chair Doolittle: I would suggest the later date, so we have enough time to get it done. Lewis: I'd say the 22nd maybe? Hiduchick-Nakayama: Yeah, I'm good with the 22nd as well. Lewis: Can everyone else make that? Iyo: Ok, so we'll set it for June 22nd that's a Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and that will be via Zoom. For this particular meeting, the only item on the agenda will be the draft legislation, so I'll send that to you with the agenda for your review and when we have the meeting, we can discuss what's good, not good, any proposed changes that we want to send to Sue Lee Loy then that way she can finalize it and submit it to Council. Hiduchick-Nakayama: Great, thank you so much Brittany. Iyo: You're welcome. DCC Yoshimoto: So, Michael, I just want to make clear, in terms of the changes to the code, my understanding is that the committee would like to have more at large members. Correct? Chair Doolittle: Yes. DCC Yoshimoto: In terms of number, right now it stands at 12, is that something we want to keep, or do we want to reduce the number? Chair Doolittle: I really don't know how to answer that question. I would say an odd number rather than an even number and I would also suggest that we have two prominent veterans' organizations that all veterans belong to. It's either American Legion or the VFW, we should have a representative from each of those and even Disabled Veterans cause that's a large segment and the rest should be at -large and maybe geographically distributed rather than all come from one area of the island. It would be nice if we were more diversified more from the west part of the island, from the Puna, south part of the island from the north part of the island and the like. Try to get more of the community. One of the things I try to suggest early on was that the Veterans Advisory Committee hold remote meetings in these different locations on occasion just to kind of draw the community in to participate because so many of our community are veterans. It's about