Port Hueneme—During its Monday, May 5 meeting, the City Council unanimously approved an outdoor flag policy for June, including the Pride Flag.
City Manager James Vega said in June 2023, the City Council designated June 2023 Pride Month through a proclamation, and the Council expressed the intent to have the Pride Flag displayed annually in perpetuity to honor Pride Month.
“Later at that meeting, the Council asked as a future item that the staff would return with some sort of policy pertaining to the display of flags on outdoor flag poles owned by the City and prepare that policy to implement and include the Pride Flag being flown in perpetuity,” he said.
The City prepared a Flag Policy, and he said it’s so the City Council, upon request by the Council, can consider flags that can be flown at the City’s main flagpole location in front of City Hall.
“The Council has the ability to determine what flags to fly by exercising the City Council’s and City’s freedom of speech,” Vega said. “This policy allows the Council to do that in what we believe is an appropriate way by creating the policy to set that.”
He said it creates a…
