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Water Commission to join work group redrafting Flagstaff land acknowledgment to include water and other elements
Summary
Commissioners agreed to provide a volunteer to a staff-led work group that will draft a revised city land acknowledgment to explicitly mention water and other natural elements; the draft will be elevated to city leadership and ultimately to city council, and the working group will include Indigenous Commission members.
Water Commission members agreed at their meeting to join a city work group that will draft a revised Flagstaff land acknowledgment that explicitly recognizes water and other natural elements. The city is forming a commission-driven work group to redraft the land acknowledgment; the group will include representatives from the Indigenous Commission, the Sustainability Commission, the Commission on Diversity Awareness (COTA), the Fire Commission and one member of the Water Commission. The draft will be elevated to city leadership and then to the City Council for final review. The proposed redraft grew from an idea brought to staff by Nicole Antonopoulos after she attended land-acknowledgment…
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