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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes June 22, 2021 Page 4 they have to belong to another organization. That's just with that understanding I don't think we need to write it in, we just need to have an understanding. So, I make a motion to make those changes, seven at -large and remove HIVM. Sheridan: I second. Chair Doolittle: All in favor? Lewis: Any further discussion. Hearing none, now ask the question. Chair Doolittle: All in favor say aye. Motion carried with seven ayes. Chair Doolittle: Where are we at now? Lewis: Now, we're at paragraph c, none of the other paragraphs were recommended for changing except for "e". We had some minor changes. Isaac Nahakuelua: Deb, I had a question on paragraph c, when it says, Initially, two members shall be appointed for a term of one year, two members shall be appointed for a term of two years, how do we know when our term is up and how... Lewis: yeah, I don't know why it's so confusing. Can someone give us a history on that? J, do you have the history on that? DCC Yoshimoto: The policy or reasoning behind that is initially when committees are started the thought process is to not have all of the members expire at the same time so this committee will not have to go through that so long as the membership continues. In other words, it's just when you first start up. The history of this committee is it was dormant for a number of years. That's why when we started it up again, we did the terms staggered in this way, again for the purpose of making sure not all members term out at the same time. Lewis: So, with the members that we have now, we could server for five years, but the new seven at large members may have to be staggered. The rule allows for that. DCC Yoshimoto: No, so basically the committee has already been filled and established so any new members would serve a term of five years from this point forward. It's only upon the startup of the committee. As a related questions in subsection "e" previously I believe it said two consecutive terms. I know there was discussion in the past meeting wanting it to have the term limits removed. But I changed it from two to three just for discussion purposes because I was just concerned that having no term limits might be as beneficial. But that's for the committee to decide so you guys can discuss that.