SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Spencer Cox says he had an idea of what Utah’s next state flag would look like when he agreed to join state lawmakers in redesigning the current flag, which has remained mostly untouched since 1913 aside from some minor alterations.
But what he envisioned at the start of the journey, which officially began last year, isn’t at all the flag that he and other members of the Utah State Flag Task Force are now proposing to the state lawmakers — and he’s fine with that.
“It’s impossible for 3.3 million of us to get the flag that we want,” he said, staring at a design on a screen before him. “It’s about us coming together and finding the very best of each of us. And as you built that one symbol, one color at a time, it all just makes sense.”
Members of the task force voted unanimously Thursday to select a flag design to move forward to the Utah Legislature for a vote in January 2023. Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, who sponsored the bill that created the task force, said a new bill is currently being drafted to codify the flag change. He is scheduled to present the task force’s case to the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee next week.
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Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.
