STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2815

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NOS. 576, 577, 578

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred Governor's Message Nos. 576, 577, and 578, submitting for study and consideration the nominations of: 

 

Advisory Board on Veterans' Services

 

G.M. No. 576

CAROLLE BRULEE-WILSON,

for a term to expire 6-30-2013;

 

G.M. No. 577

WILBERT PEREIRA,

for a term to expire 6-30-2015; and

 

G.M. No. 578

ANN GREENLEE,

for a term to expire 6-30-2016,

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     Your Committee has reviewed the personal histories, resumes, and statements submitted by the nominees and finds Carolle Brulee-Wilson, Wilbert Pereira, and Ann Greenlee to possess the requisite qualifications to be nominated to the Advisory Board on Veterans' Services.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of Carolle Brulee-Wilson from the Adjutant General, Office of Veterans Services, Big Island Veterans Day Parade Committee, and several individuals.

 

     Ms. Brulee-Wilson served in the Navy for almost ten years and was honorably discharged at her last duty station, Camp Smith, Hawaii.  Her Naval career in administration started at Naval stations and facilities in Pensacola, Florida; Antigua, West Indies; Puerto Rico; and finally at United States Pacific Command at Camp Smith.  After her discharge, she remained at Camp Smith for another five years as the Directives Control Manager and worked on the Admiral's staff as an administrative courier.

 

     For the past several years, through membership and personal involvement with several veterans' organizations, Ms. Brulee-Wilson has developed a strong desire to achieve solutions for important Big Island veteran issues.  She wants veterans to have more extensive opportunities and to help provide services for all homeless veterans in Hawaii, including a disabled American veterans transportation network van for East Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of Wilbert Pereira from the Adjutant General; Office of Veterans Services; American Legion Post 54; Maui Realty Company, Inc.; Korean War Veterans Association, Inc., Kauai Chapter; Kauai Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Post 3855, Kauai Veterans Club; Military Intelligence Veterans of Kauai; Marine Corps League's Kauai Detachment #938; and numerous individuals.

 

     Mr. Pereira joined the Hawaii Army National Guard in August of 1963.  He was called to active duty in May of 1968 during the Vietnam War and returned home in August Of 1969.  He worked for Kauai Electric Company and retired after twenty-seven years with the company.  After retirement, Mr. Pereira became very involved in various veteran organizations.  He is a member of the Kauai Veterans Council serving on the Kauai Veterans Center Management Committee, a member of the Kauai Veterans Cemetery Committee overseeing the logistics of veterans' burials, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Kauai Vietnam Era Veterans Association.  He wishes to be a member of the Advisory Board of Veterans' Services to continue to give back to the community and the veterans.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of Ann Greenlee from the Adjutant General; Office of Veterans Services; Maui Realty Company, Inc.; and several individuals.

 

     Ms. Greenlee is a veteran with over thirty years of service in the active Air Force, with the past 21 years in the Hawaii Air National Guard, and she rose to the rank of Brigadier General and Assistant Adjutant General for the Hawaii Air National Guard.  She has been a member of the Air National Guard Strategic Planning System Committee, charged with charting strategic direction for the nation's Air National Guard.  Ms. Greenlee has also sat on the National Guard Diversity Executive Council, working to improve diversity in the Army and Air National Guard.  In Hawaii, she has worked with teams directing operations in a wide variety of areas ranging from construction of facilities costing hundreds of millions of dollars to Hawaii Guard responses to natural disasters including floods, fires, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

 

In a volunteer role, Ms. Greenlee has served as the Executive Director and Vice Chairman of the Hawaii Committee for Employer Support to the Guard and Reserve.  She is currently the Director of the Veterans Employment and Services Training for the United States Department of Labor in Hawaii.  Ms. Greenlee is soon to retire after some 30 years of military service and feels that she is in a position to support veterans.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominees, has found the nominees to be qualified for the positions to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nominations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair