{"id":189106,"date":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","slug":"city-council-hears-first-reading-of-immigration-enforcement-sanctuary-laws-ordinance-kqen-news-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189106\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY COUNCIL HEARS FIRST READING OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT\/SANCTUARY LAWS ORDINANCE \u2013 KQEN News Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 11, 2026 3:40 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The Roseburg City Council will have first reading of an ordinance relating to federal immigration enforcement and Oregon\u2019s sanctuary laws, as part of its meeting on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Councilors recently asked staff to prepare an ordinance adding a new section to Roseburg Municipal Code to codify compliance with Oregon\u2019s status as a sanctuary state. The ordinance says that the City of Roseburg is a welcoming community that values the dignity and safety of all persons.<\/p>\n<p>A resolution will be voted on to make annual fee adjustments for city services.<\/p>\n<p>Other items are on the agenda.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Larry Rich will proclaim May 17th through 23rd as Emergency Medical Services Week and National Public Works Week.<\/p>\n<p>The regular meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the council chambers on Southeast Douglas Avenue. A special meeting at 6:00 p.m. will be held to review the city manager recruitment brochure and to vote on approving it and beginning to advertise for a new city manager as soon as possible. City Manager Nikki Messenger is scheduled to retire at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>The city council meetings can be seen on the city\u2019s Facebook page or viewed later at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roseburgor.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.roseburgor.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 11, 2026 3:40 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0 The Roseburg City Council will have first reading of an ordinance relating to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-189106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}