(updated 05/23/2025). This post was prompted by the open seat on city council which was filled January 03, 2023. Kerry Glover was selected by the Kanab City Council to replace Celeste Meyeres as she leaves her council seat to join the Kane County Commission.

This post is the first in the series “Meet Your Public Officials.” Kanab City employs over 20 full-time employees. This post focuses on the city officials one would see at a Kanab City Council meeting and the applicants for the vacant seat.

This post includes three sections

1. An interactive Google Slide Presentation of any evidence of public extremism and bigotry engaged in by the city staff pictured above
2. Kanab City Council: selection & applicants for 2023 vacancy & role of Council Members
3. Analysis of extremism & bigotry by Kanab City Council, applicants & support staff

For evidence from the Kane County Public Officials see KURW post Meet Your Public Officials: Kane County Commission & School Board 2022 Election.

1/4: Google Presentation of Kanab City Council Members & Support Staff

Directions for navigating the google presentation of 33 slides.

2/4: Kanab City Council: Applicants, Selection 01/03/2023 & Role

The photo above features the Kanab City Council ending 2022. Seven residents applied for the vacant seat following the election of Celeste Meyeres to the Kane County Commission (image below). Each applicant was given 5 minutes to answer three questions at the 01/10/2023 meeting. The Kanab City Council voted unanimously in favor of Kerry Glover (watch council meeting https://www.facebook.com/kanabcity to hear those answers and learn about the new tobacco ordinance and tax increase for new building for Kanab Police).

The role of City Council Members:

• work part-time for the city, $400/month
• voting in the best interest of the city (guided by City Plan, nothing personal, nothing partisan)
• represent many view points in the community and provide the Council with advice based on a FULL spectrum of concerns & perspectives.
• See Kanab’s visioning documents and general plan with ordinances.

The qualifications for City Council Members

• Must be a registered voter in the municipality in which the individual is elected.
• Must have resided within the municipality for which the candidate is seeking office for the 12 consecutive months immediately before the date of the election.
• Must maintain a principal place of residency within the municipality, and within the district that the elected officer represents, during the officer’s term of office.
• If the individual resides in a territory which was annexed into the municipality the 12 consecutive months immediately before the date of the election.
• May not be convicted of a felony.
• See qualification list at https://kanab.utah.gov/2263/2021-Municipal-Election

3/4: ANALYSIS of BIGOTRY & EXTREMISM by Kanab City Council, Applicants & Support Staff

Kanab City employs over 20 full-time employees. This post focuses on the city officials one would see at a Kanab City Council meeting and the applicants for the vacant city council seat.

This includes six elected positions: the mayor plus five member of city council, and the hired support staff: city manager, city attorney, recorder, land use coordinator, treasurer and an administrative assistant.

Of these twelve city positions,

• Two are designated Red Level Neighbors for the depth and breadth of the extremism & bigotry shared.
• Four are on Hatewatch by KURW for engaging publicly in extremism and bigotry.
• Eight are not on Hatewatch of which four have no public engagement and four have insufficient engagement to qualify.
• **REMEMBER, Mayor Johnson and City Manager Ludwig also oversee the Kanab City Police with some exposed in KURW post Kanab City Police Department: Chief Tom Cram & Officer Dustin Bundy. Mayor Johnson is also a teacher. Some of his co-workers were exposed in KURW post Public School Employees. Kane County School District. The former Kanab City Manager & Fire Chief, Joe Decker, was charged 02/2025 for trespassing during which he used his 2022 building code to enter a building to get information from an employee’s computer (dismissed 04/2025). While Mayor Johnson has Red Level Hatewatch designation, neither Ludwig nor Decker have any evidence of public extremism or bigotry.

Of the seven applicants for the open council seat by Celeste Meyeres,

• only two are on KURW Hatewatch (Boyd Corry, owner Kanab Meats) and
• the unanimously selected Kerry Glover’s evidence is insufficient for Hatewatch.

Kerry Glover’s evidence includes the encouragement of Covid disinformation and the “love it or leave it, don’t change us” rhetoric against those viewed as opposition. Rinda Alldredge references being targeted by Robert Redford, when in fact, Redford has been a long-time advocate of protecting Utah and recognized for that work by former Governor Herbert (https://www.parkrecord.com/news/governor-honors-redford-for-contributions-to-utah/)

4 of 4: How evidence is gathered and presented

The evidence is gathered from public posts on social media, public engagement at rallies/events, and legal information that is accessible to the public. In other words, no private information is used and evidence IS SIMPLY COPIED from the source posting the public evidence.

The evidence is presented in a Google Slideshow format categorized by topic instead of a collection of the screenshots of the evidence for three reasons (1) the categorized format reveals the magnitude of the hate for given topics so that people can better address that individual for targeted intervention (2) the screenshot format of the post can lead to an amplification of hate by others simply sharing that post and (3) the Google Presentation format allows for links to other sources while a screenshot does not.

Here are examples of how the summarized version on Google Slideshows (left side of image) are based directly from the screenshots of evidence (right side of image). In both examples the January 6th attack on the US Capitol is supported by Kanab Mayor CJ Johnson (top image) and Kanab Chief of Police Tom Cram (bottom image).

For corrections, email me Michelle Galaria at mgalaria@protonmail.com.