Following a request by Mayor Ricky Estrada to revise the city’s Military Veteran Banner program, the Menifee City Council decided to keep it the same in honoring the local veterans for their military service during the April 16 meeting.Estrada, during the regular city council meeting, suggested that the banner honoring the local veterans should be free to those interested in hanging the banners instead of sharing their cost with the city as it is now. He explained the cost of hanging a banner to honor the armed forces member now costs approximately $270 with half the cost, $135 paid by the veterans family. There are now almost 300 of the banners displayed along the city’s major streets, far more than the 30 or so posted in other cities. The revision could reduce the number of the b
