Council Member Ariola warns against taxpayer-funded political propaganda

All right, because I was under the impression that Doris was given the approval.

Anyway, Councilmember Areola is on the Zoom and has a question.

We do have a quorum, so she can ask it.

Councilmember Areola?

Thank you.

Thank you so very much.

Thank you, Chair.

So all the questions that have been asked have been exactly what was in line with the questions I was going to ask.

So I just want to say that there is a fine line between government agencies providing public and legitimate information and using taxpayer dollars to promote political propaganda.

Taxpayer-funded agencies have a responsibility to educate, inform, and provide essential services and not to use the public resources to advance a political agenda, influence public opinion, or promote a particular ideology.

Government communications should be factual, transparent, and directly connected to the agency's legitimate public purpose.

There should be someone overseeing this.

There is a line that is crossed when the issue is bigger than politics.

It becomes a question of accountability.

And from what I'm hearing today, there isn't very much accountability as to what is being disseminated through your outreach organizing.

You're using public dollars.

They belong to the public.

They should be used to serve the public and not promote political narratives.

And I really do appreciate the time.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much, Councilmember Wong and then Councilmember Morano.