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Guadalupe council approves city flyers urging residents not to use illegal fireworks, authorizes two-step outreach
Summary
The council authorized public-safety staff to create a city flyer discouraging purchase and use of illegal fireworks for insertion in the March utility billing and to amend the existing fireworks information distributed annually; the city attorney advised against using the utility bill to distribute third-party materials.
The Guadalupe City Council on Feb. 11 authorized public-safety staff to prepare and distribute city-produced materials discouraging purchase and use of illegal fireworks, approving both a March utility-bill mailing and a separate amendment to the standard fireworks insert and website links.
Deborah Sykes, a community advocate who designed a flyer urging residents not to use illegal fireworks, addressed the council and asked that her flyer be included in the city's utility bill mailing in March 2025. City staff and the city attorney advised the council that inserting third-party materials into the city's utility bill would convert the bill into a public forum and obligate the…
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