Fiscal Note
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Title
Creating Section 1.15 of the Madison General Ordinances to codify the Madison Official City Flag and to repeal Resolution #4408.
Body
DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This proposal modifies the Official Madison City Flag. It removes the sun symbol of the Zia Pueblo people from the Flag and replaces it with a gold circle. It also repeals April 12, 1962 Resolution 4408, which adopted the current design of the Official Madison City Flag. In its place, this proposal codifies the description of the modified City Flag as an ordinance.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1.15 of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:
“1.15 OFFICIAL CITY FLAG.
(1) Findings.
1. Rick Stone and Dennis Stone, Boy Scouts and members of the Madison Drum and Bugle Corps, with the aid of their color guard instructor, John Price, designed and created a flag to symbolize the spirit of Madison and which the Corps would use on its trips.
2. Rick and Dennis Stone and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stone, dedicated the flag to the people of Madison for use as the official flag of the city.
3. On April 12, 1962, the City of Madison adopted the flag as its official city flag by Resolution Number 4408.
4. The design elements of the flag depict features of our local landscape, such as the isthmus, the four lakes and the state capitol.
5. The original design of the flag also featured the sun symbol of the Zia Pueblo people, a federally-recognized Native American tribe in New Mexico.
6. The sun symbol is a most sacred symbol for the Zia people, with exceptional religious and cultural significance, and which represents the tribe itself.
7. Appropriating a symbol of such importance diminishes its sacred meaning and demeans the Zia people.
8. The Zia tribe has for decades sought to reclaim its sacred sun symbol from ...
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