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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A combat that began implicit the organisation of condoms astatine the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade continues astatine the County Board of Supervisors.
Supervisor Garry Bredefeld has repeatedly made it wide that helium disapproved of the Health Department passing retired custom-ordered condoms and different items astatine the lawsuit successful June.
"I don't enactment taking payer wealth and handing it out; that's advocacy. I disagree with it," said Bredefeld.
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Last month, the committee passed a question that departments indispensable person support from the committee to sponsor events. This caller argumentation takes it a measurement further.
Bredefeld wants the committee to determine what celebrations region departments tin present recognize.
"But if this committee does not o.k. cheery pridefulness month, its not gonna hap successful the libraries," said Bredefeld.
Supervisor Nathan Magsig brought up his ain examples.
"I've heard from constituents successful the past who person concerns astir departments who get dressed up and walk wealth connected things similar Halloween," said Magsig.
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Not everyone was connected committee with the idea. Supervisors Brian Pacheco and Luis Chavez questioned if the determination is astir wealth and called the argumentation censorship.
"We should correspond each the people, not our idiosyncratic beliefs, due to the fact that arsenic the 1 talker said, her values are not my values, and who americium I to accidental she's close and I'm wrong," said Pacheco.
Pacheco pushed Bredefeld to gully a wide enactment to separate what would and would not beryllium allowed.
"So if we're going to person the region enactment astatine a Confia lawsuit oregon thing similar that with the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation, according to this, myself oregon immoderate subordinate of the committee is required to bring a solution oregon proclamation anterior to the lawsuit successful bid for the region to enactment successful that event," said Pacheco.
"Hmong solemnisation and each of that I don't deliberation you request to bring a solution to bash that, but if you privation to beforehand thing going connected successful the room arsenic has been going on, that has not going to beryllium allowed unless determination is ceremonial support by this board," said Bredefeld.
Pacheco and Chavez voted no; each said the decisions should beryllium near to the section heads.
Supervisor Buddy Mendes was the necktie breaker; helium voted successful favour of the policy, but called connected the County Administrative Office, which would oversee this system, to enactment connected clarifying the proposal.
One idiosyncratic stood up astatine nationalist remark to enactment the motion, and the different 5 spoke retired successful opposition.
The County Administrative Office volition bash immoderate enactment to clarify this argumentation and past bring it backmost to the committee successful September.
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