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cemeteries are represented in the nation grave locater under the Veterans Administration, National Cemetery Administration. Chair M Doolittle: Your efforts, in the directory of the cemeteries, along with DPR has just been phenomenal. Have had a lot of people comment on that. b. Cemetery Audit Results — Director/Deputy Director Chair M Doolittle: do we have a county comment on the results of the cemetery audits? Have they closed out all of the deficient items? M Samura: have asked staff, didn't have any notes from previous deputy regarding any audits. Don't have those audits. Unsure what that looks like. Have nothing to report on that. Chair M Doolittle: Inspection from the national veterans graves department gave us a report 3-4 years ago. It had a number of deficiencies within that audit. Been working through deficiencies over the years and think were close to closing it out. M Samura: What would be an example of a deficiency? Chair M Doolittle: alignment of headstones throughout cemeteries was one of them. Don't ever remember seeing a copy of the actual inspection and deficiency items listed, it was a verbal discussion that Maurice or Michelle delivered to VAC. Vice -Chair M Brinkley: J Dempsey should have them in his files. He was onsite during the inspections and he has reported results to various organizations. T Wcjszynski: nothing recent from J Dempsey. Inspection actually happened 2 - 2 1/z years ago and it took like a year to get to the report. Deficiency report came out. Main one was gravestone alignment mostly in cemetery 42. Problem solved in West Hawaii. In 41 their pretty good. One of the biggest areas was alignment of gravestones in cemetery 42. Vice -Chair M Brinkley: Not having written SOPS for certain things. D Lewis: Delay of names on the headstones and an inventory, location inventory. T Wcjszynski: Thinks Jaye has the physical report. ANNOUNCEMENTS D Lewis: presented recognition to a 107 old woman veteran. Want to make sure women are in the memorial registry. Have 3,000,000 and only 250,000 in the registry. It's free and can afford recognition for women veterans. A Gaspar: American Legion will be doing community service projects in Hilo and Kona in March.