The Anchorage Military and Veterans Affairs Commission convened on September 14, 2026, at 21:30 UTC, with five members present. The meeting focused on approving prior minutes, amending the agenda for attendee categorization, discussing the Merrill Field memorial reopening, assisting the Air Force Association with grant requests, and approving a recommendation letter to the mayor regarding memorial maintenance and wayfinding signs.
For which it stands under God. It doesn't core off. There he is. Okay. All right. So we go and do roll call. Sure. Let's go ahead and do roll call. David Foley. Eleanor Lawson? Rob Real, I'm here. Al Mrs. Elspot, maybe. I'm all Alcoala. He's out of state. Absent. Olivia Freeman. Here's Robert Sherell. So we do have five members present. Start the meeting. All right. All right. Um last minute meetings, last meeting minutes. And everybody have a chance to go over them. Does that anybody have any problems with them? Motion approval in the minutes. Yeah, a second. All right. And we have a first and second, and no things over under unanimous consent. No question. All right. The agenda. Does anybody have a chance to go over the agenda sent out? Does anybody have any problems? I have a couple comments. Under the uh attendance roster. We've been listening to Diana as a uh at that in that group there. And she's actually uh a member, she's a uh representative of the unity. Yeah, so my thinking is this should be done with representative advisors down at area down there, so up there. And uh last and uh I thought uh Isaac Melvin, the second lieutenant was gonna be uh representative on the board uh with people was that just one-time meeting last month, do you know? Or we invited him and uh but he's out of state for a couple weeks and be out, he's gonna be gone for a little bit, and then he's coming back, and he never said whether he'd be able to commit to coming all the time or not. So he's uh if he intends yeah, okay, and the last thing I have I had a little confusion on myself, but in our email you help me out there. The there is no Air Force Well, there used to be an Air Force Association, but now it's the Air Air Force Space Command Association. Uh so technically there is no Air Force Air Force Association. I don't I did some research on that. Uh the Alaska Air Airman Association is the one at the uh at the airport with the uh Lake Hood, that area in there, that's the Alaska Air Airmen Association. So I'm kind of confused at the technology at the technical name. Um I've got a I've got an email string from them where they were going back and forth. They both refer to the organization he's part of, and like he said, they've only got like four or five members, and that but they're also uh not only are they that part of that association, but they're also the uh um holders under that name of the use agreement for the ground that the memorials are and I asked the question to them when we were in the meeting, yeah. Clarifying is yes, and there is actually the uh how did they word it?