Over the past month, the St. Cloud City Council has been trying to get to the bottom of a scheduling snafu pertaining to the use of The Ranch by both the Black Empowerment Community Council and the Proud in the Cloud groups in June. At Thursday’s meeting, the Council voted unanimously to send a formal letter of apology to Tiffany Jeffers and the BECC.
“We’ve done an exhaustive investigation on this … we’ve gone through many documents, spoken with staff,” Mayor Chris Robertson said. “We owe the Black Empowerment Community Council a sincere apology. Some of our departments dropped the ball, and we are going to definitely do everything we can to ensure that never happens again. They had an event scheduled at The Ranch in St. Cloud and they were moved to another location. We do know at this point that it was our fault.”
Council Member Jennifer Paul noted “significant failures” occurred within several City departments…