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Veterans Advisory Committee <br />August 27, 2025, 10:00 a.m. <br />Page 4 <br />REPORT ON CEMETERIES — STATE VETERANS ADVISORY BOARD <br />a. Hawaii Island — East Hawaii Representative — Kelcie Figueira (OVS) <br />Kelcie Figueira not in attendance. <br />b. Cemetery Audit Results — Director/Deputy Director <br />M Samura: Reported last month that going through auditing procedures. Will be meeting <br />with Park Planner to go over details for Vet III and WH. <br />Critical SOP was developed in 2023 there are other items that need to be done as well, on- <br />going issues. Will be meeting quarterly. <br />ANNOUNCEMENTS <br />D Lewis: have a woman Veteran event on September 28th from 10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m. at <br />Lapahoehoe Point. Parade continues to support this event. <br />Kelsey said she did not receive a link. <br />Regarding parade: CMs Hustace, Kierkiewicz, Kagiwada will support parade. Encouraging <br />various entities to participate in Parade. Jerry Change will be Grand Marshall. Vibrant <br />Hawaii will be the Community Parade Marshall and final Parade Marshall will be Kens <br />House of Pancakes. <br />J Hiduchick-Nakayama: have 6th Annual Veterans Day Motorcycle Drive -by Salute on <br />November 16th, 9:30 a.m. at civic. Expecting large presence of motorcycles. Inviting group. <br />Requested A Bautista assist in securing civic center during event. <br />M Brinkley: in yesterdays paper had article about States efforts to prevent suicide. August <br />30th Prince Kuhio Plaza, 10-4p Veterans resources fair. Will copy article and send to A <br />Bautista to distribute. <br />T Wojszynski: going back to previous agenda item, sent a letter to Chief of Police requesting <br />they submit a budget item. Would a line item be a function of County Government? And <br />would it be more appropriate for that request to go from the Chair to the Mayor to see if the <br />Mayor or Council could include a budget line item for all parades. <br />J Yoshimoto: if the committee wants to make a recommendation to the Mayor and Council <br />about making sure Veteran issues and parade are supported as a budget items, appropriate to <br />do so. <br />