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No one from the public spoke in favor of or opposition to the bill. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to send Bill 16 -37 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of three (3) ayes. Bill No. 07 -16 — City Flag Bill No. 16 -39 — City Flag Retirement Ceremony Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to accept the substitute Bill 07 -16. Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of three (3) ayes. Councilmember Karen White made a motion to hear both Substitute Bill 07 -16 and Bill 16 -39 together. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic served as the presenter of this bill. He explained the process that lead to the creation of the flag and the extensive time and energy that the SB 150 group put forward. People in the community have gotten very excited about the flag and it can be seen throughout the City already. Bill 16 -39 establishes the retirement ceremony for the current city flag if the new flag is passed. Aaron Perri, Chair of the SB 150 Committee, spoke about the new city flag design. Last fall a special ad -hoc committee was formed to look at the redesign of the City Flag. A few meetings were held to decide the ground rules for the competition and for what could and should be represented in the flag. The competition had over two - hundred (200) submissions come in. The committee narrowed it down to three (3). There wasn't a strong consensus in the feedback from the community about the three (3) final flags. We picked up some things from each of the three (3) flags that the community stated they liked and a final designer combined those themes into this flag. The most prominent theme is the river and the yellow color is picked up from the former city flag. The red star/hexagram has the six (6) points to symbolize the six (6) Council Districts. The star really symbolizes anything worth striving for or achieving, such as why we use stars on the American Flag. Stars are actually on nearly two- thirds (2/3) of flags in the United States. Mr. Perri provided a presentation with various pictures of how the community has already taken to the flag in such a positive way before it is even official, the presentation is now on file in the City Clerk's Office. The pictures included t- shirts, lapels, businesses flying the flag outside their buildings and outside of Four Winds Field. These are not really things the City has spurred on in any way, it's just the community getting excited about it. It is an open source design so people have really run with it. Mr. Perri stated he doesn't know if all the people who have adopted the flag in all these different ways love the design itself, but it speaks to their love of this community and feeling involved which is very exciting. It is becoming a symbol we can use for whatever cause people in the City want. Mr. Perri stated the designer of the flag will be at the full Council meeting later in the day to explain more of the symbolism of the flag and his thought process.