HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-16-25 Public Comment - E. Anselmi - City commission meetingFrom:Eli Anselmi
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]City commission meeting
Date:Tuesday, July 15, 2025 1:59:51 PM
Attachments:City commission letter 7-15-25.pdf
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-- Eli Anselmi
Bozeman, MTMobile: +1.406.581.1503
Dear City Commissioners,
A city flag should unite all residents of the city, not a specific social movement or individual
agenda. The City of Bozeman already has a neutral and all including official flag. By looking to
adopt the “pride flag”, the city is siding with a very small and specific minority simply for a social
agenda that will create division and alienaƟon of the majority of the city ciƟzens, while aligning
the city with a non-inclusive poliƟcal statement and seƫng a precedent for the future to adopt
any and all flags, regardless of the poliƟcal message, as an official city flag.
City officials should be looking to ways and proposals that create unity and neutrality instead of
creaƟng division, fostering poliƟcal violence. The City Commission needs to remember that as
elected officials in the city, their primary duty to their consƟtuents is to listen and find ways to
make the city safer, make sure to provide the infrastructure needed and foster a posiƟve fiscal
responsibility as to how the consƟtuents’ dollars are being spent, NOT geƫng involved in
poliƟcal and social issues that create division.
I encourage to the city commission to drop this issue and follow state law as it stands. Do your
job and follow the law.
Regards,
Eli Anselmi