Schieve, who participated in Saturday’s events but none on Sunday, said she didn’t know about the flag problem until Sunday evening. The city worker was trying to comply with the mayor’s request to hang the pride flag. “It was never anyone’s intent to take down the U.S. City Manager Andrew Clinger said the original intent was to fly both flags, but the flag pole does not accommodate two flags.
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On Sunday morning, a Reno city worker made the decision to fly the pride flag on the flag pole atop city hall, not one of the three in front of the building on Virginia Street. Other cities have flown the pride flag for similar events, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Providence, R.I., St.
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Schieve also rode in a Reno fire truck in the parade and Reno Police staffed a booth at the event.Īs part of the festivities, Schieve asked that the pride flag be hung at city hall. The city was a co-sponsor of the Build Our Center’s Northern Nevada Pride Festival and CommUNITY Parade at Wingfield Park on Saturday, donating $3,500 in in-kind services to the event. “On Sunday, July 26, 2015, the City of Reno will fly a Pride Flag over City Hall,” the memo from the city’s special events manager reads. The memo, however, didn’t specify exactly where it should be hung.
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What’s not in question is the fact that the entire Reno City Council was notified of the plan to fly the flag at city hall in a memo four days before it was raised, giving members plenty of time to object if they had had concerns. Flag at the top of the 16-story city hall to come down.Īccording to interviews with city staff and city documents obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal, the confusion occurred over which flag pole the rainbow pride flag would fly- the one on top of city hall or one of the three in front of the building. Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, who has been a vocal supporter of the LGBT community and its fight for marriage equality, doesn’t dispute the fact she asked that the rainbow-colored pride flag fly at city hall as part of the weekend’s pride festivities.īut she is adament that she never asked for the U.S.