Ashley Hicks, who has been serving as a city councilor since 2017, posted on Facebook advocating to build a homeless shelter on an empty property on General Ave.
A roseburg city councilor is facing the consequences after posting personal opinions online.
Her fate will be disscussed at tonights city council meeting& and kezi 9 news reporter evita garza shows us the impact the councilor actions have had on the community.
Trt: 1:42 00:00 take lower shawn goodrum watched as his neighbors at shadow ranch mobile park went into a panic last month.
00:06 shawn goodrum, neighbor:?nobody took it serious until another lady in here started putting flyers around the mailboxes?
The controversy caused by a facebook post from city councilor ashley hicks.
She was advocating to build a homeless shelter on an empty property across from their mobile home park.?they don like transient like people walking through the park or snooping around?
After the post caught attention, mayor larry rich tells me the neighbors started expressing their concerns.
Turns out, the council was never considering the idea in the first place.
00:42 larry rich, mayor, city of roseburg:?we had a councilor goal setting session, she brought it up, there was no second&which means, end of discussion?
00:47 evita:?mayor rich says ashley hicks instilled false fear in the shadow ranch neighbors by advocating for the homeless shelter on social media.
Now, they want her to pay the price?
If the council determines that hicks is guilty of a violation, she could be facing a number of sanctions.
Rich says she could have official travel privileges restricted or lose responsibilities.
They also want to ask her to stop posting about it online.?if you realize there panic going on at least get on facebook and say everyone it was my idea?
But goodrum says he siding with hicks.
He believes she was just trying to stand up for what she believes by giving a soultion to the growing homeless problem.?i think they need to look at her point of view and be a little bit more understanding?
In roseburg, evita garza kezi 9
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