For his part, Councilman Kalmick seems not to be entirely buying that miscommunication had anything to do with the controversy.

“The video’s clear, the action agenda is clear,” Kalmick told the Daily Pilot reporter. “We explicitly asked, ‘Are we going to be celebrating this anymore?’ and they said, ‘No.’ So I don’t know how staff is managing that … We asked [McKeon] four different ways, ‘Does this mean we’re not going to celebrate this?’”