SEQUIM — Today’s Sequim City Council meeting will include an item Council member Brandon Janisse requested be placed on the agenda.
Janisse asked City Clerk Sara McMillon to add to a city council agenda “how we are going to address the negative light the city is now in.
“We need to discuss steps on how we are going to improve public relations, our image in the community at large, how we are going to build trust again,” he wrote in asking for the agenda addition.
The item appears on the agenda as “public input received” at the end of the meeting, which will begin at 6 p.m. To join the meeting, go to https://zoom.us/j/91235464249 or call 253-215-8782. The ID is 912 3546 4249.
Sequim Mayor William Armacost’s political beliefs garnered the attention of multiple news outlets across the nation, bringing the national media, including CNN, to Sequim to ask the mayor’s thoughts on controversial QAnon conspiracy theories.
During an August Coffee with the Mayor radio show, Armacost spoke highly of QAnon, a collection of unfounded conspiracy theories alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring.
He directed listeners to a video that outlined QAnon theories and ended with promoting Donald Trump, who was then seeking a second term as president.
Questions about QAnon and the council’s call for City Manager Charlie Bush’s resignation were asked during KSQM 91.5 FM’s latest Coffee with the Mayor with Armacost on Jan. 28.
Armacost said then that he’s never publicly supported QAnon and that he wears a skull pin, known as a Punisher pin and often connected with QAnon, to support law enforcement.
For more information on Sequim City Council, visit www.sequimwa.gov or call 360-683-4139.
