Hamilton County Veterans Corp Meeting Minutes
Jan 6th, 2025, 7pm Fishers American Legion Post 470, 9091 E 126th St
- Pledge of Allegiance / Silent Prayer
- Welcome HCVC, Guests & New Members – Introductions of everyone
- Sick Call –
- ZOOM Connection for this meeting https://iu.zoom.us/j/83587167577
Old Business
- HCVC Financials, have we received the $5k grant from Duke Energy and are waiting to get the $10K grant from Hamilton County – Lynn, Ron, Bill
- National Guard / Army Reserve and Financial update – Mark Fiddler
- Coffee with a Veteran the last Saturday of the month at School House 7 Café – Cliff Morlan
- Hamilton County is moving forward with the resource generator application we debuted at our Nov 16th Veteran Service Org Meeting. There will be resources for everyone covering any and all topics with the main focus being on mental health. If those using the app need help to navigate the resources/services, it offers a connection to a person who will facilitate and coach the individual to get the help they need. It will be launched in Q1 2025 for all residents in Hamilton County free of charge. – Bill
- The HCVC and GSN will host 2 resource fairs in 2025, one June 6th at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds and one Oct 11th at the Boys and Girls Club of Noblesville – Bill
- We still need new members in the HCVC who want to work with us to move into the future helping our MVC? – All
- Bill met with Mayor Scott Willis and Hamilton County to come up with a plan to make the Fallen Hoosier Hero Memorial an everlasting Memorial for our Gold Star Families. The Memorial is in Westfield but on Hamilton County land so both are working together to help Dennis Zavada with the upkeep. – Bill
New Business
- The HCVC is running a Care Package Drive with help from our 7 Posts, spread the flyer in your world so all can see and help our deployed soldiers. All our VFW and American Legion Posts are collecting the goods and helping raise funds to pay for boxes and shipping. Jan 25th at 5pm we need all the goods at the Fishers American Legion for a packaging party. Lynn will be working with Fishers Aux 2nd Vice Tracy Huser to get boxes and make sure this all happens for our deployed troops – Lynn, Bill
- Sports Teams in Hamilton County we will be teaming with in 2025 – Mad Ants, a G League team of the Pacers is coming to Noblesville, The Indy Fuel plays at the Fishers Event Center, Ignite Fishers Volleyball Team – Bill
- Bill had a meeting with the Colts Kicking the Stigma team and we are looking to team with them at some local events as well as the Colts Training camp at Grand Park – Bill
- Does anyone know of other events we should be at? This winter or anytime next year? – All
- In 2025 we will be hosting QPR & VA SAVE suicide prevention training and CPR training at all our Posts. Jim Ginder will do all Ham Cty but the Fishers Posts will have to be done by our Fishers Health Dept – Bill
- In 2025 we will work with Roudebush VA Benefits, our CVSOs and each Posts Service Officer to setup claims days at every Post in Hamilton County. – Bill
- We worked with state legislators to write a comprehensive bill that will structure the IDVA to fully control our Veteran Service Officers across Indiana and hopefully spread across the USA – Bill
- Indiana Veterans Legislative Day at the Statehouse is January 14, 2025 – Ron
- We are working with Hamilton County cities to setup an Armed Forces Commission like Fishers has. – Bill
- We are asking all Hamilton County schools to apply for a Purple Star status – Bill
- If you know of any Hamilton County activities or events that involve our MVC, let me know so I can add it to our Hamilton County Veteran Community page in the Reporter. Getting any help from our Posts other than Fishers and Carmel has been non-existent. – Bill
- Fishers Legion Commander Pat Menc is going to & talking with all Ham Cty Posts to create a team. Cliff Morlan has also been going to each Post passing out the care package flyer and building synergy between their Posts and the HCVC for our MVC – Bill Cliff