Xcel Energy has ordered 120 municipalities statewide to remove flags, banners and decorations from utility-owned light poles by Jan. 1.
Lafayette City Administrator Gary Klaphake responded: Make us.
“We’re going to have U.S. flags on Memorial Day — period,” he said Monday before a joint meeting of the Louisville and Lafayette city councils. “We’re going to put them up.”
The utility claims that its poles weren’t designed for the additional weight and that all of its franchise agreements with municipalities include decades-old language prohibiting any objects of a “non-policing” nature on its poles.
But Klaphake said Lafayette spent more than $150,000 on light poles specifically built to support the weight of banners and flags.
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