Updated at 1:12 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Meeting tomorrow on Honolulu Memorial Park
Advertiser Staff
Families with niches or cemetery plots at Honolulu Memorial Park will attend a meeting tomorrow at McKinley High School to vote on changes to bylaws and new officers.The meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria at the school. Registration starts at 5:30 p.m., and those wishing to vote must bring proof of their ownership.
The park, with its landmark pagoda, has been embroiled in controversy since 2001, when its owners the Richards brothers filed for bankruptcy in Circuit Court.
At the time, they said it would cost more than $1 million to repair the pagoda. Niche and plot owners at the park, meanwhile, said the cemetery was mismanaged.
For a time, there was no maintenance at the park not even trash pickup. But a manager was hired in February, and he is running the office and taking care of groundskeeping.