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<\/p>\nAlaska Town\u2019s City Council Meeting Canceled After Members Refuse to Attend Over Pride Month Declaration<\/b>
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A City Council meeting was cancelled in Homer, Alaska this week after several members declined to attend because the city was going to recognize Pride Month.<\/p>\n
The Homer News reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Mayor Bryan Zak had been scheduled to read\u00a0a mayoral recognition in support of Pride Month<\/a>\u00a0at Monday\u2019s regularly scheduled city council meeting. After numerous emails poured in both in support and in opposition of the recognition, council members Heath Smith, Shelly Erickson and Tom Stroozas<\/a> notified City Clerk Melissa Jacobsen on Monday afternoon to say they could not attend the meeting. With four members of the six members needed for a quorum, the meeting was canceled. Jacobsen said it is unclear if the absences can be counted as excused. Normally, the mayor rules on the validity of an absence, but because the meeting wasn\u2019t held, he couldn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n The canceled meeting didn\u2019t stop Zak from reading the recognition. At 6 p.m. \u2014 the time the meeting would have been held normally \u2014 a crowd of about 75 people listened in the Homer City Hall parking lot as Zak recognized June as Homer Pride Month.<\/p>\n The absent members claimed they did not oppose the recognition itself, but did not want to \u201cpromote discord and controversy within the community.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Alaska Town\u2019s City Council Meeting Canceled After Members Refuse to Attend Over Pride Month Declaration<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n