Resident criticizes city cash holdings and bank choices during public comment

Anastasia Ferner, a resident who waived her address for safety reasons, criticized the City of Lincoln’s reported cash-on-hand during the March 17, 2025 council meeting and connected the city’s banking relationships to wider humanitarian and environmental concerns.

Speaking during the consent-agenda public-comment period, Ferner referenced the city treasurer’s report for January 2025 and said the city “does have over 671555250 and 71 cents,” and that the city’s deposited funds are held at banks she named. She told the council that those banks — she named Wells Fargo in her remarks — “not only has done untold harm to indigenous folks by being partial funders of things like the Dakota Access Pipeline,” but also she alleged those institutions finance military actions abroad.

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