<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Greetings to Mayor Chaney and the Moscow City Council -</div><div><br></div><div>Here's Boise's anti-discrimination ordinance (after Sandpoint and Pocatello adopted theirs) . . .</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.cityofboise.org/city_clerk/111312/o-36-12.pdf">http://www.cityofboise.org/city_clerk/111312/o-36-12.pdf</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Question: Where's Moscow's anti-discrimination ordinance?</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, that's right. I almost forgot. </div><div><img src="cid:966EB220-EDC5-4072-9F23-B4836F3479AE" alt="image.jpeg" id="966EB220-EDC5-4072-9F23-B4836F3479AE" width="728" height="956"></div><div>The City of Moscow can't even pass a non-committal ordinance, while cities around us are passing ordinances unanimously.</div><div><br></div><div>Sidebar: How's that cell-phone stipend payin' out, city council? Wouldn't want to deny you something you feel you are entitled.</div><div><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Ross, Amy" <<a href="mailto:amyr@uidaho.edu">amyr@uidaho.edu</a>><br><b>Date:</b> December 7, 2012, 10:54:55 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:nwchr@uidaho.edu">nwchr@uidaho.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[NWCHR] breaking good news!</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The LGBTQ anti-discrimination ordinance was unanimously passed by Boise City Council 5-0. The citywide ordinance prohibits discriminatory acts in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“This is a huge win for our community in Idaho,” said Boise resident Emilie Jackson-Edney, a Pride Foundation board member who had testified before the council about the ordinance.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“There were no employment non-discrimination protections for me in company policy or codified on a statewide level,” Emilie said while testifying at an earlier ordinance hearing. “If I had been fired, there was no avenue of recourse for me to follow. What you are doing now is a logical progression to extend those protections through the ordinance process to encompass the entire city – because it’s the right thing to do.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The ordinance will take effect on January 1, 2013.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Amy Ross<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">HRAI Investigative & Administrative Assistant<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Communications Coordinator for the Northwest Coalition for Human Rights<span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">University of Idaho • Office of Human Rights, Access, and Inclusion<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Administration Building Rm 104 • 875 Perimeter Drive MS 3160 • Moscow, ID 83844-3160 <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Phone: 208-885-4285 • Email: <a href="mailto:amyr@uidaho.edu"><span style="color:blue">amyr@uidaho.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>