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United States Mint 801 9th Street NW Washington DC 20220 CCAC Public Meeting September 18, 2019 CCAC Attendees: Mint Staff: Sam Gill Robert Hoge Erik Jansen Dean Kotlowski (on phone) Mary Lannin Mike Moran Robin Salmon Donald Scarinci Jeanne Stevens-Sollman Dennis Tucker Thomas Uram Betty Birdsong Pam Borer Vanessa Franck Ron Harrigal April Stafford Megan Sullivan Roger Vasquez Greg Weinman Joe Menna Jennifer Warren Liaisons: Peggy McCall Campo, (official liaison) USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization Sara Vladic, Author and historian (written books/documentaries of the USS Indianapolis) Member of the USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization volunteer team Chinese American Citizens Alliance committee members: Major General Robert Lee, US Army Retired (Chair) Mr. Ed Gor, C.A.C.A. National President and CGM Overall Chair Mr. Ed Moy, former Director of the United States Mint Major General William Chen, US Army Retired Major General Stephen Tom, US Army Retired Major General Darryll Wong, US Air Force Retired 1. The meeting was called to order by the Chairperson, Thomas Uram at 9:44 a.m. Welcome and reception of members of the Mint Staff. 2. Erik Jansen moved to approve the minutes and letters from the July 17, 2019 meeting. Motion seconded by Robert Hoge. Motion passed unanimously. 3. The Director of the Mint, David J. Ryder, recognized Erik Jansen for his eight years of service to the CCAC. The Director made remarks, praised Erik for his commitment to the design process, and presented Erik with the CCAC Public Service Award (a framed certificate along with a three-inch Alexander Hamilton Secretary’s Medal, and a medal of the recipient’s choosing). By tradition, the 1 outgoing member chooses at least one medal from a program that was reviewed during the member’s tenure. Erik chose the Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Gold Medal honoring New York and depicting inversing buildings. 4. April Stafford presented the designs for the 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut. a. Erik Jansen began discussion focusing on the USS Nautilus and discussion followed. Donald Scarinci preferred not to recommend themes based on the Military, therefore he suggested the Gerber scale, and recommended a focus on an emblematic series of objects. b. The discussion on themes was very positive for Connecticut; it would include the Colt Armory, Gerber Scale, and the USS Nautilus. Erik Jansen made a motion to present 2 designs as favorable, CT-01 and CT16. Motion was seconded by Mike Moran. Motion Passed Votes for the Connecticut American Innovation $1 Coin are as follows: CT-01 CT-02 CT-03 CT-04 CT-05 CT-06 CT-06A 3 6 5 2 4 5 2 CT-07 CT-07A CT-08 CT-09 CT-10 CT-11 7 7 26 1 5 13 CT-12 CT-13 CT-14 CT-14A CT-15 CT-16 7 1 1 1 4 21 5. The next state for the 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin is Massachusetts. Themes include the telephone and basketball. MA-01 received the highest votes with 23 of possible 33, MA-14 had 17 votes. The preferred design is MA-01. Votes for the Massachusetts American Innovation $1 Coin are as follows: MA-01 MA-02 MA-03 MA-04 MA-05 23 2 5 6 3 MA-06 MA-07 MA-8 MA-9 MA-10 1 7 12 1 1 MA-11 MA-12 MA-13 MA-14 1 1 1 17 6. April Stafford presented the 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin designs for Maryland. The themes are the Hubble Space Telescope and the Human Genome Project. MD-05, the Hubble Telescope received the highest vote with 26. 2 Votes for the Maryland American Innovation $1 Coin are as follows: MD-01 MD-02 MD-03 MD-04 MD-04A MD-05 MD-06 MD-07 7 2 4 1 1 26 1 16 MD-08 MD-09 MD-10 MD-11 MD-12 MD-13 MD-14 MD-15 1 2 2 1 3 3 10 17 7. The designs for the 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin for South Carolina feature Septima Clark (the Governor’s Office’s preferred theme) and the maser. Of the designs SC-02 is preferred. The committee focused on designs SC-01, SC-02, SC03 as well as SC-07. Maser was a very difficult topic to depict on a coin. Dennis Tucker mentioned that selecting a figure over an object compliments the first year of the coins as the year’s coins would depict three objects and one person. Votes for the South Carolina American Innovation $1 Coin are as follows: SC-01 SC-02 SC-03 SC-04 SC-05 SC-05A 21 23 2 9 0 0 SC-06 SC-06A SC-07 SC-08 SC-09 0 0 14 2 0 8. We were once again privileged to review designs for two congressional gold medals. The first was the design for the USS Indianapolis Congressional Gold Medal. The liaisons reflected on the significance of the medal and stated their preference was IND-O-07 and IND-R-07. The committee discussed the other designs and made comments, particularly on IND-O-09 and IND-R-05. Ultimately the committee recommended to the liaisons both designs, leaving the recommendation to the stakeholder. 9. The second Congressional Gold Medal was for the recognition of Chinese American Veterans of World War II. The congressionally appointed liaison was present along with several other members of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. Director Ryder also participated in our meeting by welcoming the delegation and expressing his thoughts on the tribute as well as the sacrifice of the WWII Chinese American Veterans. The preference of the liaison is design CAVO-07 paired with CAV-R-06A. 10. Chairperson Thomas Uram adjourned the meeting at 2:20p.m. EST 3