Friday, February 7, 2025

County board passes Assembly ordinance with little fanfare

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An ordinance change toward how the county handles large assemblies garnered a lot of discussion at the committee level - but it passed Tuesday with little fanfare. 

 

The Marathon County Board Tuesday passed the new version of the ordinance governing large assemblies with little fanfare. The ordinance passed 29-3. 

 

The county looked at revamping the ordinance after the county’s legal team raised concerns that the previous version might not be constitutional because it places restrictions on large assemblies that could violate First Amendment rights. 

 

But the threshold the county was considering of 3,000 attendees made organizers of the eight dairy breakfasts in the county nervous because it might place an additional burden on those organizers.

 

Most of the breakfasts have between 2,000 and 3,000 attendees, organizers had told county leaders.

Members of the Environmental Resources Committee changed the threshold to 5,000 attendees, leaving the dairy breakfasts safely under that number.

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