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The Administrative Policy Committee met on September 22, 2026, to approve the previous meeting's minutes and discuss a proposed flag policy for the City of Columbia. The committee unanimously approved the minutes and recommended the flag policy to the full council for adoption at the October 6, 2026 meeting.
We're gonna drop these minutes. All those in favor, let me know by saying I was high as have it. Our discussion today sent it around a proposed fag, uh, I'm sorry, uh flag policy. Yeah, L is important to sir. What now? Oh the L. Oh. What I'm gonna do because we we had this discussion last month. We started that discussion last month. And of course, Tyler, yeah, I'm glad you're here today because we're with you on Zoom last month. Talk to us a little bit about where we uh what we're thinking about doing, and uh we're looking at I think perhaps three distinctive maps, um not maps, flags. Um talk a little bit about that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to be here today. Last month I was on Zoom, but we had a good discussion about the flag policy. Uh Councilman Johnson brought up uh some good points, and Robert Anderson chimed in as well concerning not wanting to prevent banners and other things going on, light poles that aren't flags, but could possibly be down main street, down Main Street and other areas of the city that could be misconstrued, possibly by the policy. Um Sinique Belton did a like a great job in incorporating uh those proposed changes with legal and the new proposed policy clearly outlines three flags um that are permissible on government flagpoles for the city. You got the American flag, the South Carolina flag, and the City of Columbia flag. And those are the only three flags that are allowed to be flown on government property with the city. It has a separate section regarding um that it does not apply to prior privately owned property right aways under jurisdiction of the SE DOT and event programming, like I just discussed. Um I think it's good because it does clearly state what flags are permissible, and then it also brings up that the policy is managed by council, which takes the decision of whether a flag could be flown out of the city manager's hands if if uh it it ever came up. It can be changed if it has to be changed under the policy, but I think it's pretty good. It uh talks about things that aren't weren't discussed earlier, like the size and condition of the flag, time of display, and half staff protocol. Uh, but it clearly outlines the three flags, and no flag is can be uh larger than American flag. So the uh half staff protocol is are we just do we follow the the state or the the federal staff is in accordance with the presidential proclamations and orders of the governor? Okay, gotcha. All right, Sam. Good good go with me. Good work, team. Peter, yeah, very happy. Very happy. Thank you, sir. My pleasant.