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Resident urges East Grand Forks to back restoring original Minnesota state flag; council to discuss at work session
Summary
During open forum Jolene Grom urged the council to change the city flag back to the original Minnesota state flag and said residents were not given a vote; Council Vice President Tim Rapel said the request will be placed on the next work session agenda for discussion.
During open forum at the March 3 East Grand Forks City Council meeting, resident Jolene Grom of 430 Greenwood Drive Southeast Grand Forks told the council she and others would like the city to restore the original Minnesota state flag. Grom said many people she knows who once lived in Minnesota are offended the public was not given an opportunity to vote on the change and urged council members to "stand with other communities across the state."
Council Vice President Tim Rapel responded during council reports, thanking Grom for coming and saying the item will be placed on the next work session agenda so council members can discuss it; Rapel said the council could bring the matter to a vote at a subsequent meeting if desired. No formal action or vote on the flag policy took place at the March 3 meeting.
The comment was recorded during open forum, a portion of the meeting the council uses for matters not on the posted agenda. Staff and council did not adopt any changes to city flag policy during the session; the next procedural step recorded in the meeting transcript is placement of the request on the work session agenda for further discussion.
