{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Fort Bragg City Council gets to work on citizens commission recommendations","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":390,"description":"November 17, 2022, Sarah Reith — The Fort Bragg City Council voted this week to carry out six recommendations by a citizens commission that was convened in 2020 to find out if changing the city’s name was supported by its residents. \r\n\r\nFort Bragg was named for Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general who never set foot in the town but was highly respected by a soldier who served with him in the U.S. Mexican war. Bragg also took part in the Second Seminole War against the indigenous people in what is now the state of Florida.\r\n\r\nIn the summer of 2020, as the country entered a racial reckoning in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the Fort Bragg City Council considered a ballot measure asking residents if they wanted to change the city’s name. The question led to an in-person City Council meeting in the midst of the pandemic, where members of the public spoke for hours on a wide variety of opinions regarding the history of the city and the nation, and which aspects of it deserve what kind of emphasis.\r\n\r\nThe council convened a citizens’ commission to research the question and “the deeper systemic issue of racism.” The commission met for more than sixty hours over the course of a year and a half. Earlier this year, it came back to the City Council with six recommendations, not including a name change.\r\n\r\nThe most complicated of those was to craft a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between the Council, the school district, and local tribes, to present “a more complete and inclusive history of the local area,” according to a staff memo attached to this week’s agenda. City Manager Peggy Ducey said she expected the negotiations around crafting the MOU would form the “backbone” of the city’s approach to the rest of the recommendations.\r\n\r\n“I couldn’t go into those meetings and sit and tell the tribal groups what’s important to them and what’s not important,” she told the Council. “But as we look into this MOU, we’re needing something that’s meaningful, not something...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}