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From YouTube: Bay County Veteran Affairs Committee Meeting (5/18/21)
Description
0:20 - 1. Call to Order
0:32 - 2. Roll Call
0:48 - 3. Minutes
1:42 - 4. Citizens Input
3:23 - 5. Petitions and Communications
3:25 - 5a. Introduction - Gary Bowersock
5:34 - 5b. Update on Flags
13:36 - 6. New Business
29:45 - 7. Adjournment
B
C
A
E
However,
we're
still
gonna
still
gonna
hold
to
the
fourth
day
a
week
schedule
and
try
to
keep
the
eight
maximum
eight
per
day.
Eight
passengers
per
day,
not
counting
for
emergencies.
You
never
know
what's
gonna
happen,
but
mondays
through
thursday
we're
going
to
try
to
stick
to,
and
my
only
other
question
is.
I
don't
know.
E
Four
months
ago,
at
least
five
months
ago,
I
had
asked
for
an
increase
for
our
drivers
from
three
dollars
per
passenger
to
ten
dollars
per
pack,
and
since
then,
I've
compromised
on
the
five
dollars
per
passenger
still
waiting
for
an
answer.
It's
been
a
couple
months
now
and
they
help.
I
would
appreciate
it.
E
A
A
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
So
today
we
felt
it
was
a
good
idea
to
bring
in
mr
gary
bauersock
he's
our
new
emergency
relief
coordinator,
and
he
started
well
he's
probably
about
three
three
weeks
now
I
believe,
run
for
three
four
weeks,
so
he's
been
learning
learning
a
lot
we
sat
through
and
he
made
it
through
the
munis
training
last
week
that
we
that
we
did
briefly
so
he's
still
here
to
tell
the
story.
So
that's
pretty
impressive
if
he
made
it
through
the
finance
software
training.
B
I
see
troy's
been
through
it.
So
it's
it's
a
ton
of
fun,
but
the
but
no
gary
is
a.
He
is
a
an
air
force
veteran
and
brings
to
the
table
a
lot
of
experience
working
for
the
va,
and
so
it's
nice
to
have
somebody
who
is
on
that
side
of
you
know,
working
with
individuals
and
can
kind
of
maybe
explain
a
little
bit
to
the
point
where
we
have
questions
and
maybe
direct
us
in
contacts
and
certain
things.
But
by
all
means.
F
A
G
Yes,
the
flags
have
been
delivered.
The
american
legion
has
the
flags
as
usual.
They
should
be
back
at
the
post
now.
So
if
anybody
needs
to
pick
them
up,
they
can
contact
anybody
who
answers
the
phone
basically
down.
There
will
be
able
to
tell
them
when
they
can
actually
grab
flag.
So
and
paperwork
has
been
submitted
to
county
for
payment
of
to
the
for
the
legion
reimbursing
the
legion.
A
Somebody
called
me
the
other
day
from
out
in
williams
township.
I
think
it
was,
and
then
I
had
directed
them
to
mike
and
they
made
a
coordinated
to
get
the
to
get
the
flags.
So
if
anybody
needs
flags
they're
available,
I
don't
know
if
our
attorney
would
still
like
us
to
have
that
list
that
we
have
talked
about.
A
H
And
it's
my
understanding
that
the
petitioner
was
going
to
start
that
effort,
and
I
believe
next
year
at
the
latest,
give
us
at
least
an
update
on
whatever
partially
completed
list
that
he
had
and
it
will
have
to
be
included
in
the
petition
next
year.
If
they
petition
us
for
additional
flags
next
year.
H
G
I
actually
have
a
small
update
to
that:
the
library
across
the
street
I
talked
to
the
reference
staff
and
we
do
through
ancestry.
They
provide
a
list
of
up
till
1970
of
veterans
that
have
made
petition
for
the
headstone
through
the
va.
So
I
have
approximately
1500
out
of
3000-ish
for
the
county
and
talking
with
said
petitioner
as
well,
though
they
apparently.
G
H
A
A
H
Campbell,
yes,
yes,
so
he
submitted
the
petition
and
he
said
that
he
was
going
to
reach
out
to
all
of
the
cemeteries
as
well,
because
he
said
he
had
did
have
a
bit
of
a
step
up,
at
least
with
contacts,
to
see
what
he
could
do
to
try
and
find
it,
and
I
reached
out
just
on
social
media
to
see
if
perhaps
it
was
a
project
that
maybe
an
eagle
scout
would
want
to
take
on
from
the
boy
scouts
as
their
public
service
project.
I
have
not
heard
back.
D
H
A
I
know
jason's
looking
for
help
putting
out
flags
on
saturday
before
memorial
day
and
then
trying
to
get
some
scouts
to
help
out,
and
I
also
have
a
group
of
lions
called
leos
who
might
be
able
to
help
them
too.
You
know
it's
a
good
community
service
project
plus
you
can
usually
do
some
education
for
the
kids
too.
You
know
about
what
memorial
day
is
why
why
we
celebrate
it
so.
A
A
A
Okay,
anything
else.
We
dropped
the
emergency
relief.
Now
we
do
have
gary
here
and
meryl
and
I
had
met
before.
Maybe
we
need
to
meet
with
gary
talk
about
the
emergency
relief
and
some
of
the
rules
that
we're
looking
at,
and
I
think
maybe
amber's
been
working
on
some
of
the
rules
also
maybe
go
over
those
with
gary
started
tweaking
them
a
little
bit
from
before.
A
I
think
we
changed
some
of
the
numbers,
the
contribution
numbers,
so
I've
not
heard
anything
about
the
legislation
that's
supposedly
going
through
that
allows
like
a
private
hearing
for
people.
If
they're
asking
for
relief,
they
can
have
a
like
a
closed
door
hearing
to
keep
their
confidentiality.
I've
not
heard
if
that's
past
dead
or
not
can.
A
A
H
A
H
We
are
very
limited
and
donations
per
se
are
not
allowed
when
you're
utilizing
tax
dollars,
which
is
which
is
what
this
is.
However,
what
you
can
do
is
you
can
enter
into
either
agreements
with
another
entity.
It's
like
a
power
sharing
agreement
and
combine
resources,
or
you
can
enter
into
an
agreement
with
an
outside
entity
to
basically
contract
with
them
to
provide
a
service
that
you
are
statutorily
authorized
to
provide.
H
So,
if
someone's
just
coming
saying,
we
have
this
wonderful
public
purpose
that
we
would
like
to
utilize
money
for
can
we
do
that?
The
answer
is,
as
a
general
rule.
No,
you
can
find
very
specific
exceptions
to
it
in
our
particular
case,
we're
even
more
limited
than
regular
government,
because
our
millage
funds
are
required
to
be
used
in
accordance
with
the
actual
millage
that
it's
levied,
for,
which
is
emergency
relief
for
indigent
veterans,
so
you've
got
kind
of
a
two-layer
double
whammy
there.
H
I
am
putting
together
a
memorandum
with
a
legal
opinion
on
it
on
this
particular
issue
for
the
board
of
commissioners,
because
this
is
popped
up
in
a
different
area.
So
I
will
also
distribute
that
to
the
members
of
this
committee
as
well,
but
with
the
additional
caveat
of
what
you
can
use
the
the
millage
fund
dollars
for
as
well.
A
I
haven't
heard
anything
about
indigent
definition
that
you
know
that's
sort
of
been
something
we've
been
looking
at
for
a
while,
and
I
had
taken
it
to
some
of
the
legislators
to
see
what
they
could
do
about,
refining
it,
defining
it.
What
what
indigent
is,
if
there's
certain
levels
and
some
of
the
verbiage
is
from
1899,
so
the
numbers
are
quite
low.
H
E
H
C
H
H
A
E
E
A
A
E
A
I
I've
still
been
doing
the
compensation
pension
physicals.
I
follow
the
news,
the
vva
news
and
it
looks
like
the
the
legislation
their
legislature
is
going
to
pass
something
on
the
burn,
the
burn
pits.
It
looks
like
it's
a
go,
I
don't
know
mark
or
gary.
I've
heard
anything,
but
it
was
no
last
vva
news
that
it
looks
like
it's
going
through
the
senate.
G
Sorry,
real
quick.
That
was
the
last
thing
we
did.
That
was
the
last
thing,
we'd
heard
as
well,
that
the
burn
pits
were
coming
through
and
they
were
starting
to
look
back
at
vietnam
as
well
as
gulf
as
well
as
anywhere.
You
know,
you
know,
k2
pick
a
spot,
that's
so
they
were
looking
at
burn
pits
for,
but
as
far
as
I
know,
I
hadn't
heard
that
it
passed
yet
either
yeah.
A
G
A
And
the
sleep
apnea
I
still
get
getting
the
sleep
apnea
thing
in
trying
to
tie
it
to
ptsd
or
some
other
other.
You
know
service,
connected
problem
that,
and
I
read
somewhere
that
some
are
going
through
there
are
some
people
are
getting
that
that
correlation
between
sleep,
apnea
and
ptsd
anyway,
just
helpful
information
for
the
veterans,
so
any
other
new
business.
E
E
G
G
Yeah,
yes,
it
is
so
there's
those
things
the
headstone
comes
from
the
va
and
the
sexton
at
the
cemetery
generally
handles
that
and
those
get
ordered
and
we
pay
back.
We
reimburse
the
cemetery
for
placing
the
headstone
and,
as
far
as
I
know,
the
only
requirement
for
that
is.
You
have
to
have
an
honorable
discharge
which
I'm
assuming
an
honorable
man,
so.
G
G
E
G
So
I
just
have
real
quick,
two
updates
I
want
to
provide.
There
are
two
cases
that
we're
working
on
in
development.
Currently,
that
will
probably
end
up
coming
before
the
board
again,
because
they're
fairly
large
one
is
a
septic
and
the
other
is
a
basement
problem,
so
we're
in
progress
on
those
so
just
two
and
then
just
to
give
you
an
update
on
va
every
monday.
The
va
does
the
vba
veterans
benefits
administration
morning
report
of
what
the
status
is
and
their
claims.
A
G
And
nprc
was
supposed
to
that
went
to
a
second
shift,
but
they've
got
to
clean
in
between
everything
their
folks
are
supposedly
wearing
mop
suits.
You
know,
pulling
records
getting
records
scanned
and
getting
them
into
the
va.
They
were
supposed
to
have
cleared
the
backlog
of
emergency
requests
by
the
end
of
summer,
not
even
the
rest
of
the
requests
which
we've
kept.
We've
kept
sending
this
past
year.
So.
A
G
A
Another
problem
I
have
is
people
go
to
outside
doctors
and
don't
get
those
the
reports
submitted
into
the
the
system.
There's
a
there's
a
way
to
submit
it
to
the
lhi
logistics
health
on
wisconsin,
and
they
don't.
They
sometimes
forget
the
outside
records.
They
have
the
va
record,
but
they
don't
have
the
outside
doctor's
records.
That
they're
referred
out
to
somebody
to
make
sure
they
get
submitted.
G
G
We
just
saw
a
letter
this
week.
That
va
is
going
back
and
looking
back
to
all
the
blue
water,
denials
and
they're
supposed
to
be
notifying
veterans
if
they
were
previously
denied
for
anything
yeah.
So
I
mean
they've
got
15
000
currently
backlogged.
I
I
can't
imagine
once
va
starts
to
do
that
supposed
to
and
spouses
so
they've
got.
A
you
know
is
the
veteran
still
alive
is
the
spouse
alive,
because
then
the
spouse
may
be
eligible
for
other
benefits
or
any
benefits
whatsoever.