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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes August 27,2019 Page 4 Lewis: And now we know it's not provided. Hanato: So, they're not going to provide that? Chair Doolittle: No, they're not provided. Hanato: Oh, because last month I did two burials at the Veterans Cemetery and one had purchased a vault from Dodo Mortuary and the second one did not. It was only a wooden box. The box was made out of decorative plyboard 1/4 inch thick. I'm pretty sure in one year that is going to collapse. It's a sad thing when they open up the grave to put the wife inside. It's not going to be a pretty site. But I just wanted to check on that. Install Flagpole on Pu'u WHVC Chair Doolittle: introduced the topic. Hanato: Ok, on the flagpole as I said last meeting the Boys Scouts wanted to put up a flagpole on the hill above the committal shelter in Kona. Originally on the original plans they were supposed to put one on to and one on the bottom, every time we have a function, there's a man that goes up there to hold the flag. When the wind blows with him holding the flag it can be blowing him away. The flagpole they want to put up there is a permanent flagpole with lights, so the flag is lighted. It's supposed to hold two flags, American flag and Hawaiian flag one on top of the other. Wery: Who owns the property? Chair Doolittle: That's the West Hawai`i Veterans Cemetery. P&R Deputy Director Maurice Messina: We checked on the protocols and it's against protocols to be flying more than one American flag at a site at a time. Second, to put lights on a pole where there's a flag, well anytime you have a flag flying 24 hours a day you have to have lights on it, so that's electrical permits and everything else that's going to be required for that. But for right now, when we checked with the protocols it said we shouldn't have more than one flag flying at a site at a time. Who's going to be responsible for putting it up and bringing it down. What's the exact protocol for a 10-foot flagpole? What should be the size of the flag. But for right now, it's hard for us to get past the protocol point. Wery: There's already a flag there, right? Messina: Right, and that's why installing another permanent flag there would go against flag protocols. Wery: Why would we need another one? Messina: That's what he wants.