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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 30, 2021 Page 4 Welch: Per my testimony, I have not sent letters to our National organization, I wanted to wait until this meeting to do that and now that I have, I'm going to go ahead and forward that to our national organizations. I'll send those letters out today to our National Adjutant and National Commander. I think they'll have something to say about this. Chair Doolittle: If the DAV doesn't want to be represented, that's fine. We're going to move on to the next subject. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES Chair Doolittle asked if anyone read the minutes. I read them the other day as well, all 19 pages. I was going to make a copy so I could refer to it, but I didn't have enough paper left (laughter). Deputy Director Michelle Hiraishi: I also read through the minutes and commented to Brittany about how thorough she is. We have to remember that everything we say is being captured and I turn that to myself especially. Chair Doolittle: Yah, thank you very much for Brittany because she does keep us all in order. I'm appreciative of that. Are there any comments about the minutes? Do we have a motion to accept the minutes? Vice Chair Marcia Brinkley: I so move. Debra Lewis: I second. Chair Doolittle: Marcy moved. Deb second. All in favor? Six ayes. Minutes accepted. OLD BUSINESS Hidden Heroes Cities and Counties Chair Doolittle: Marcia, what's happening here? Vice Chair Brinkley: If everyone remembers, it must've been about three years ago we had a presentation at this committee by Jason Osbolt who was a Political Science student at UHH at the time about the Hidden Heroes program. It's just for people, to refresh your memories, if you don't remember, it's a project of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation which she founded, her husband was Walter Mead and supports caregivers all over the country. After the presentation he talked about the Hidden Heroes Counties and Cities program and everybody from this committee at the time signed off on a recommendation to the Mayor that Hawaii County consider being a part of the program. I just found out last week that in fact Mayor Roth has gone ahead and said yes, we do want to be a part of this program because of course lava came in between the presentation and now. The new fellow who is Ilihia Gionson, he is also the Tourism Authority, Public Affairs Officer, he