LGBTQ Committee Offers Recommendations to Casper City Council
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The committee, which was established last year to look into what the city could do to better address issues raised by community members, offered two recommendations to city council.
One recommendation was to create a ordinance against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual preference, similar to what has been done in Laramie and Jackson, and the other recommendation is a program for businesses to put stickers in their windows signifying their support for the LGBTQ community.
Kody Allen-Sambrano, one of the members of the committee, said the sticker program would help bolster the relationship between the LGBTQ community and police department.
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“It is Paradise Valley. My God, that was a nice neighborhood at one time,” one of the residents said. “And it has turned into North Casper. North Casper is way better than this place right now.”
Some readers were frustrated by the comparisons to North Casper and Oil City’s decision to cover their comments. While we’re open to criticism about how we covered those comments, covering what they said during the public city council meeting doesn’t imply that anyone at Oil City necessarily agrees with what they said about either North Casper or their claims about Paradise Valley. We try to cover city council meetings as comprehensively as possible and leave it up to you what to think about the topics that we cover.
Casper City Council Discusses Scooter Changes
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While the council eventually voted to approve the first reading of the ordinance, with two more planned over the next few weeks, council members Lisa Engebretsen and Kyle Gamroth ended up voting against it.
Gamroth said before they voted that he opposed the addition of dock-less electronic scooters into the city because there wasn t a problem the scooters would solve, and that because they have not looked into the scooters enough, they might introduce problems into the good year the city is having.
Vice Mayor Ray Pacheco said he feels at future meetings when they receive public comment pertaining to the changes, the council can iron out any issues that people may have with scooters.
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