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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 30, 2021 Page I I Nahakuelua: Yes, it makes me think of Kai Kahele, our congressman. Because I know, Medicare, each state has a package deal with the federal government to give a certain amount of monies to each state, for Medicare. So, I'm wondering if Kai, somehow or even the VA can allocate funds to each state in some kind of package deal to fund these county veteran cemeteries and stuff. Chair Doolittle: Well, something obviously needs to be done on a federal standard for any federal money that's being distributed down to states for veterans' cemeteries interment or whatever service they're designated for. A review of that so it's being properly distributed seems to be something that's really necessary to do. I can't even believe that that's not presently being done. It sounds like a severed pipeline of resources being drained into something it was intended to be. Either that or Oahu is hoarding it all for Oahu, which wouldn't surprise me either. Deb, you as the Commander of the VFW, I would think you would have some interest in what's going on. Lewis: Yes, absolutely. Chair Doolittle: I think this is something that needs to be put on the agenda to push forward and make a little more noise about and see if we can identify what's happening to funds that might be allocated for us. Lewis: At least to get answers. Chair Doolittle: Yes. At least to understand what that process is and why it was changed. If it was some change made by a previous governor, maybe we need to review that. Do we have any other comments about cemeteries or funding or the like? We'll table this and put this on the agenda for the next time. NEW BUSINESS Meeting Dates for 2022 Chair Doolittle: We need to establish those dates. (Introduces topic) Brittany Iyo: In the past our meeting shave been on the fourth Tuesday of every third month, it's kind of weird though, February, May, August, and November at 1:30 in the afternoon. I don't know if you guys want to continue with that or maybe change the day of the week, change the time to a morning time. Chair Doolittle: I got some suggestions. My Tuesdays seem to be my busiest day of the week and I always why Tuesday was when we did all of this. I'm hoping for that, but that should be a consensus with everybody. We need to kick that around for a little bit. Iyo: Does anyone want to propose another day of the week? Chair Doolittle: Yes, I'd like to propose Wednesdays.