RESOLUTION URGING LOCAL POST OFFICE BRANCHES TO FLY THE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED POW/MIA FLAG

Recommendation:

That City Council adopt resolution.

Background:

Following a request made by the City of Lomita, the City Council, at its meeting of February 11, 1997, directed staff to return with a resolution for adoption which would urge local post office branches to fly the nationally recognized POW/MIA flag.

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Postal Regulation 47 of the Administrative Support Manual provides that the only flags authorized to be flown at post offices are the United States flag and the Postal Service flag; and,

WHEREAS, there is still over ten thousand American veterans listed as prisoners of war and/or missing in action; and,

WHEREAS, the City of Hermosa Beach is committed to showing our respect and gratitude to those Americans who are prisoners of war or who are classified as missing in action; and,

WHEREAS, in keeping faith with these Americans and their families, we continue to remember and commemorate their sacrifices; and,

WHEREAS, the POW/MIA flag has been nationally recognized;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. That the current regulation which allows only the United States flag and the Postal Service flag to be displayed be modified to allow local post offices to display at the discretion of each local post office, the nationally recognized POW/MIA flag; and,

SECTION 2. That the City Clerk is directed to forward a copy of this Resolution to Marvin Runyon, Post Master General and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 10653, Washington, DC 20260 and to the President of the United States of America, William Clinton, White House, Washington, DC 20500 and to other cities and other concerned organizations, officials and individuals.