Bend commission calls for emergency meeting over Juneteenth funding

Bend commission calls for emergency meeting over Juneteenth funding

Bend’s Human Rights and Equity Commission chair said Wednesday that she wants the city to hold an emergency meeting to address how the city handled a claim of discrimination that slowed funding for this year’s Juneteenth celebration.The city delayed a sponsorship payment to organizers of this year’s Juneteenth event over a post that an organizer had made on her personal Facebook account. The post drew a citizen complaint that caused senior city …