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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes August 24, 2021 Page 14 do a mapping project of each of the plots. They're actually starting with VC1, I believe. That conversation started shortly after this report came out. They were waiting for school to start to get going with that because all of the COVID issues. But that's part of it, to reach out to our community to help us fix this. As well as having a better maintenance plan or an ongoing maintenance plan for all of our cemeteries, especially the veterans' cemeteries. But I'll follow up on that formal reply with Moe. Lewis: I think with the misperceptions that are easy to happen with those kinds of reports, but I'll dispel one that I do know. For example, the monies that get funded and then you have to ask, ok, who had control of the money and who directed where it was going to be spent and what was it supposed to accomplish. Like you had some projects that came in and I don't know that you guys had any input on them. It was just imposed on you. If you had been asked, how would you like for us to spend this money, it might be a very different answer. I know that those are just some of the things. A frequently asked question is one of the best techniques that I've ever seen so that people can go to somewhere and say, I'm worried that this has happened. Maybe it happens in one in so many, here is how you can report the discrepancies that you find. Maybe you have an answer to it that points people to be helpful and not to gnash their teeth and say this is awful. Because if you read it on the surface and don't know the background like we do, I agree totally with Michael, I know how hard your people work and I love the idea of UH Hilo to map the plots because their school children who could do this, I know many children who could help with pieces of this, not the whole plan but the pieces of it. So, please help up help you. Deputy Hiraishi: Actually, UH Hilo is actually using the GIS system that Civil Defense uses to map out roadblocks and other things like that, so it's a pretty comprehensive system but I agree, like high school kids, we just need that listing. Chair Doolittle: I see we have a visitor from UH Hilo. Would you like to say something? Ryan Peroy: Yes, Sir. Aloha everyone, my name is Ryan Peroy. I'm the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Science here at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and yeah, I reached out and we had a meeting with Moe, and we actually had our first day of class yesterday and I spoke to my students about this project. We're going to be working on this as a component of the class for Veterans 1 and we'll see how far we can get for this, but it is being integrated into the class. So, we'll do the best we can and see how much progress we can make with the students. I just wanted to let you all know that. I did see that report and I thought about how we could potentially contribute and so that's what were trying to do. Thank you all for the meeting and your past service and continued service to this. Deputy Hiraishi: Kudos to Ryan, thank you so much. So, everyone knows, UH came to us. They offered this to us and we're really grateful that while we're just spinning with this report, it came to us. So, thank you, Ryan.