Families of local service members will be able to put a name and face on a downtown Queen Creek streetlight pole beginning in 2027, after the Town Council approved a military banner partnership on Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The council voted 6-0 to work with the Duane Ellsworth Post 129 Sons of the American Legion on a street-pole banner program honoring people who have served, according to the meeting's posted results.
How the program will work
Under the staff report presented to the council, the banners will go up twice a year, over the Fourth of July and again over Veterans Day, for two years. The first round will include 30 banners, and the town says it will revisit that number as the spots fill.
The Legion will run the request side. It will collect applications, confirm that each person being honored served in the military before a banner is produced, take payment and pay the Military Banner Tribute Company, which will design, print and ship the banners and set up an online submission page. Any money left after the vendor is paid stays with the Legion as a fundraiser.
The town's role is the hardware: it will coordinate drop-off with the Legion, then install, remove and store the banners on designated streetlight poles. Those installation and removal costs will come out of the town's existing banner budget, the report says, while design, printing and shipping are the Legion's responsibility.
Once a banner's display run ends, the Legion will hand it back to the family or person who bought it.
The council materials do not list a price per banner.
