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Council adopts ordinance limiting flags on city buildings after debate over commemorative flags
Summary
Following a lengthy public comment period and debate involving the DEI commission, the Ellensburg City Council adopted Ordinance 4957 regulating banners, sidewalk flags and decorations in city right‑of‑way and removed language allowing commemorative flags on city flagpoles.
City attorney Terry Wyre presented Ordinance 4957 — a code chapter regulating banners, sidewalk flags and decorations in the city’s rights‑of‑way — for second reading and adoption. The ordinance had been through stakeholder meetings, multiple council study sessions and a prior first reading in which council removed a section on commemorative flags.
Public commenters voiced both support and opposition. Candace Comfort praised the council’s removal of commemorative flags and urged that…
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