Updated at 7:19 a.m., Thursday, April 12, 2007
Honolulu Memorial Park meeting set for tonight
Advertiser Staff
Families with niches or cemetery plots at Honolulu Memorial Park are asked to attend a meeting tonight 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 plot or niche ownership.
The Nu'uanu cemetery, 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 said the cemetery was mismanaged.
Memorial Park manager Robert Sherlock said he is taking care of groundskeeping concerns and running the office.
Sherlock said it is unclear what the bylaw changes to be voted on entail. An official with the memorial park association, the nonprofit attached to the cemetery, could not be reached.
