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Chair asks staff to review Pledge of Allegiance protocol at commission meetings
Summary
Chair Jennifer Mickelsen asked the commission to consider not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at meeting starts; the commission asked staff and management to discuss the protocol and the commission’s authority to vary hearing procedures.
Chair Jennifer Mickelsen raised whether the commission could stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of meetings and asked staff to review the issue. The group reached a consensus to request that staff and management further discuss proper meeting protocol and the commission’s authority to vary certain hearing procedures.
The minutes record a request for staff-level follow-up rather than a formal change in procedure; no formal motion or vote on altering the pledge was recorded in the minutes excerpt.
