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The city of Clovis has informed me that it does not have a flag.
Valentin Poposki, 1 May 2009
From Eastern New Mexico News:
New flag needed!
http://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2016/07/07/publishnews/officials-considering-new-city-flag/78303.html
July 7, 2016
The Clovis city commission is agreeable to the idea of a
new flag for the city. Commissioners just aren’t sure what that flag should look
like, or how they can make sure citizens have the final say on the process. The
Clovis flag, out of town for display at the New Mexico Municipal League
conference, is yellow with the city seal. The city has only one flag and it is
almost always in storage at city offices.
Designs suggested to supplant
the flag were a mix of red, yellow and sometimes blue overlays with various
graphics. Commissioners weren’t sure what to incorporate among the Zia symbol,
the state name or a Clovis point. Clovis points are projectile points first
found in Clovis in the late 1920s. They date back to the North American
Paleo-Indian period about 13,500 years ago. Should they become part of the flag,
Lansford admitted an education effort would likely be required.
New flag
not needed!
http://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2016/08/04/publishnews/commission-decides-against-changes-to-city-flag/86541.html
August 4, 2016
Commission decides against changes to city flag
By an
8-0 vote Thursday, the commission opted to keep the rarely-used — and, prior to
commission discussion, largely-unknown — flag the way it is. The city’s flag is
the city seal against a yellow backdrop. A Clovis High student had approached
Mayor David Lansford earlier in the summer about possibly updating the flag, and
Lansford brought it to the commission during the July 7 meeting.
There
are two known copies of the flag. One is currently in Hobbs for the annual New
Mexico Municipal League conference. The second was discovered in a closet by
city staff and brought to the meeting for display. Commissioner Chris Bryant
addressed the matter and spoke about the seal’s importance to the community. The
seal is a Zia symbol and other smaller symbols — a handshake to represent
partnership, the Clovis High Wildcat logo, a cow head and crops to represent
agriculture, a train to represent the railroad and aircraft to represent Cannon
Air
Force Base.
Masao Okazaki, 2 July 2019
image located by Paul Bassinson, 13 October 2019
Source:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/AgencyPages/clovisnm/
Paul Bassinson, 13
October 2019