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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County's Board of Supervisors approved an point connected Tuesday that residents judge censors region agencies.
Tuesday morning's meeting projected policy AP 81, which requires region agencies to person a bulk of support from the committee earlier they are allowed to observe oregon admit a holiday.
"Employee birthdays, retirements, worker milestones are accepted; there's nary occupation with that. But if you person 'employee-organized vacation festivities,' I deliberation it creates immoderate confusion, and truthful I would suggest that we o.k. this without that phrase," said District 2 Supervisor Garry Bredefeld.
This argumentation stems from a previously approved question successful July, which requires region agencies to person support earlier spending wealth connected oregon sponsoring assemblage events. That point passed aft Supervisor Bredefeld spoke retired against the Department of Public Health and Behavioral Services for spending wealth connected resources at Fresno’s Pride Parade successful aboriginal June.
"I'm conscionable not comfy censoring folks, adjacent connected their ain escaped time," said District 3 Supervisor Luis Chavez.
"I did not enactment this erstwhile it came earlier us. I admit the clarification, but I deliberation it conscionable creates much problems," District 1 Supervisor Brian Pacheco said.
Everyone who spoke up during nationalist remark connected Tuesday was against the committee approving what residents judge is censorship, specifically targeting LGBTQ+ Pride.
"We person a precise divers colonisation successful Fresno County, and it would beryllium inappropriate to let the governmental and idiosyncratic ideologies of committee members dictate what tin and cannot beryllium recognized and celebrated," 1 nonmigratory said.
"Policies similar AP 81 nonstop a connection that immoderate communities, similar our LGBTQ+ neighbors, bash not merit to beryllium celebrated oregon recognized unless politicians accidental so. That's not what I was told Fresno County was about. I came present due to the fact that I was told this was astir apt 1 of the astir divers counties successful California," 1 nonmigratory who moved from the East Coast said.
District 5 Supervisor Nathan Magsig told residents the extremity of the argumentation is to align the region with its ngo statement, lone celebrating "things which are arsenic inclusive arsenic possible."
"All of [the Board of Supervisors] are precise diverse, we person antithetic backgrounds, and I respect each of that. But the champion services that we tin supply arsenic a assemblage are those erstwhile radical travel and interface with us. They don't cognize my politics, they don't cognize my intersexual preferences, they conscionable cognize that I enactment for the region and I'm present to service them," said Magsig, who is besides publically campaigning for Republican State Senate 2026.
Despite nationalist comments, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to walk AP 81 astatine a 3-2 vote, with Chavez and Pacheco voting against. AP 81 is effectual arsenic of Sept. 9.
