DEBATE AT 22 MAIN

Despite Village Atty's Warning,

Trustees Vote To Fly Pride Flag

By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – A month after voting unanimously to fly the Pride Flag on the flagpole next June, village trustees once again debated and, in the end, affirmed their decision.

“I gave every member of this board every opportunity to table this motion,” said Trustee MacGuire Benton, who introduced the resolution at the board’s July meeting.  “For any vote you can have a discussion.  We don’t need a unique, complex way to vote on flags.”

The debates started when the board’s “Adhoc Committee on Vexillology,” chaired by Benton, introduced a policy intended to give the Board guidance and clarity when taking up future proposals to fly flags.  But the committee’s resolution on “the Display of Flags at Village Facilities” had the opposite effect.