Councilman Wants Year-Long Half-Staff Flags For School Shootings

NASHVILLE, TN -- A Metro councilman wants the city to fly all Metro flags at half-staff for a full year to honor the victims of school shootings.

Councilman Jim Shulman filed a resolution "requesting that the Metropolitan Department of General Services, and all departments of the Metropolitan Government that display flags of the Metropolitan Government, fly such flags at half-staff for a period of one (1) year from the effective date of this resolution in honor and memory of the students whose lives have been lost as a result of gun violence and as a daily reminder of the urgency of gun violence solutions."

The resolution, which is non-binding, is on the council's agenda for Tuesday, June 19 after a deferral June 5.

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Shulman, an at-large councilman who previously represented a Green Hills area district, announced last week he is running in August's vice-mayoral election.

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