{"id":16894,"date":"2024-05-29T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=16894"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:29:31","slug":"city-flag-seal-idea-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/city-flag-seal-idea-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"City flag, seal idea moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An idea brought before Decatur City Council by a new member of that body is now beginning to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenny Bowers-Shultz, who joined council the first of the year, said at a meeting in March that having a city flag and seal \u201c&#8230;is just an idea I&#8217;ve been thinking about. It would be good way to market our city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At council&#8217;s recent meeting, the idea was launched, with the first step being the formation of a committee to collect ideas, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/380377792E61423E884682872F575BB0.jpg?resize=387%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/380377792E61423E884682872F575BB0.jpg?w=387&amp;ssl=1 387w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/380377792E61423E884682872F575BB0.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really want to move this forward, so I am asking to form a committee,\u201d Bowers-Shultz said. \u201cI feel the need to represent our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord agreed that the first step would the formation of a committee and \u201cgetting the ideas of people on what they would want to include.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowers-Shultz added that perhaps the proposal could reach the point of having some type of community voting on a flag and seal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowers-Shultz said she would like to have another council member on the committee and councilman Scott Murray volunteered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council gave its approval and the search for a flag and seal to represent Decatur is now formally launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com An idea brought before Decatur City Council by a new member of that body<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-16894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}