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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes August 24, 2021 Page 5 DCC Yoshimoto: Uniform services? United States Uniform Services. And, did the motion include spouses? Chair Doolittle: No. Lewis: The five would include spouses. Chair Doolittle: yeah, the five at large seats could include spouses, caregivers, anyone that belongs to an organization that is worthy of veteran promotions. DCC Yoshimoto: So, to be clear, when we say at least seven members of the committee must be veterans, that seven includes the named organizations here, correct? Chair Doolittle: yeah, I believe so. DCC Yoshimoto: So, we have five named organizations and two more at large would consist of the seven. Lewis: We could always have more, but we can't have less than the seven including the organization names that makes it veterans. DCC Yoshimoto: Gotcha. Update on Veteran Monuments and Parks — Marcia Brinkley Chair Doolittle: (introduces topic) Marcie do you have an update? VC Brinkley: Well, there was a delay in getting the information on to the website. I just heard from Lee Hasebe from IT in Parks and Recs and they're undergoing a very large upgrade to all the webpages so were still on the list but it's going to be a while before they get to it. So, my thought is, if it's not a problem I've already played around with putting all of these on a google maps and I could finish that up and send it around to people it would have a map and then you click on the star and it shows you more information, picture, where it is. A lot of the information that I wanted to put up on the Parks and Recs webpage but in a public format. I'm just wondering if we can do that, if I should mention that it's a project of the Veterans Advisory Committee or if it should just be more of a private thing for me, for legal purposes. The second thing, if we're allowed to do that, each organization that has a website can provide a link to that. That's one thing I wanted to say, and I'll ask for discussion on that. The second thing is that I have been talking to various organizations about adopting some of these memorials and cemeteries. I was talking to American Legion and Antonio, and they have already indicated that they are already doing some of that. DAR is going to go around in late October and clean up some of the brass monuments around the island. Also, at the Veterans Memorial where there are brass plaques at the foot of the palm trees that are representing each of the guys that were killed in Vietnam from this island. I started going to the West Hawaii