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Veterans Advisory Committee <br />Minutes June 22, 2021 <br />Page 6 <br />committee for more than three consecutive terms. So, I make a motion that we adopt <br />what has been identified there. <br />Chair Doolittle: Ok, and we have a second. All in favor? <br />Motion carried with seven ayes. <br />Chair Doolittle: Now we have adopted all articles, <br />Iyo: Michael, sorry, who made the second? <br />Chair Doolittle: George. (pause) Now we have all of the items "a" through "e" agreed to. <br />Any further discussions on this organizational chart and membership? <br />Lewis: I just had a slight edit for section 1 as it's presented to the Council of the County <br />of Hawaii. <br />Chair Doolittle: You're talking about section 1 at the top? <br />Lewis: Yes, section 1 at the top. It's just the description of why we're doing what we're <br />doing. <br />Chair Doolittle: Well, why don't we read it then and you tell me why you want to modify <br />it. <br />Lewis: To allow and adjust to the maturing membership of the various veteran's <br />organizations currently identified by the Veterans Advisory Committee. To expand and <br />allow future inclusion for new, immerging, and other veterans organizations that provide <br />valuable assistance on veteran's issues in alignment with the Veterans Advisory <br />Committee. <br />Chair Doolittle: Ok, and how might you propose that you want to amend that? <br />Lewis: "Immerging" was misspelled, with an "e". I had `for new, emerging veteran <br />organizations' I had it singular, `veteran organizations and veterans who provide valuable <br />assistance on veteran issues in alignment with the Veterans Advisory Committee.' The <br />couple changes were, corrected spelling of emerging, take out the apostrophe "s" and just <br />say veteran organizations and add the `and veterans who' take out the `that' and then <br />`provide valuable assistance on veteran issues, that was singular. That was it. That at least <br />allows us to say, we pick organizations, or we could pick veterans who are working in the <br />community. At least for now, because we said we were going to keep it veterans if we <br />change it to be non -veterans that's an issue for another day. Right now, it's to get the at <br />large members and I pondered whether or not we needed to say the intent was to get the <br />whole island, but I think the committee history will know that, while it may not always be <br />possible, we want to try to pick veterans from other organizations from throughout the <br />