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Motion to adopt City‑branded Pride and Juneteenth flags fails; commission to revisit flag policy later
Summary
A motion to adopt city‑branded Pride and Juneteenth flags as official city flags failed on roll call. Mayor Johnson and several commissioners said the choice of municipal government speech should remain for each two‑year commission and staff will bring an update to flag policy to the August legislative policy committee meeting
The City of Muskegon Commission considered a motion, carried over from a prior meeting, to designate city‑branded Pride and Juneteenth flags as alternative official city flags. After extended discussion the motion failed on a roll call vote.
Mayor Johnson explained his view that adopting city‑branded flags as "official" could bind future commissions to a specific government-speech choice and said that, absent a state-level constraint, the matter is better left to the discretion of each two‑year commission. "My thought is rather than us taking this action now to…
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