City Worker Files Ethics Complaint Against Rock Springs Council Member

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City Worker Files Ethics Complaint Against Rock Springs Council Member

An ethics complaint has been filed against Rock Springs City Councilman Rick Milonas by a city employee, who says Milonas falsely accused him of “advancing a ‘gay agenda.’” The councilman also criticized the mayor and says the complaint is “retaliation.”

Kate Meadows
April 06, 2026
7 min read



Rock Springs City Councilman Rick Milonas is facing a formal ethics complaint, five months after the council adopted a code of ethics that he alone opposed. ... The complaint, filed by city Urban Renewal Agency Director Chad Banks, alleges that Milonas was abusive and created a hostile work environment for city employees.

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Videos Stir The Pot

In his Friday video, Milonas said the day after he was called into an interview at the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office last week concerning alleged corruption at City Hall, police arrived at his door with a formal complaint from a city employee. ... The complaint, which Milonas said was a response to another video he posted March 30 on Facebook blasting the city’s new logo, “says I was abusive, hurt his feelings and created a hostile work environment.”

In the March 30 video, Milonas shows photos of some of the city’s previous logos, saying that Rock Springshired a professional marketing company about 20 years ago to help with branding the community to promote tourism and economic development. ... The marketing company landed on the theme of outdoor recreation, incorporating the sun, mountains and water into a simple logo with earth-tone colors. ... “We tagged everything” with the logo, Milonas said, including the Civic Center, the City Council Chambers, the chamber of commerce and all the city vehicles. “Even expensive, hard-to-replace signs got the new logo. ... “I thought it was a nice touch for our downtown.”

But later, the downtown colors changed to red, green, yellow and blue, “the colors of the rainbow,” he said. ... They also are the same colors of the city’s Urban Renewal Agency (URA). ... “Everybody knows the head of the URA is gay,” he said. “It’s no secret, and I have no problem with it. But as soon as Max was elected mayor, he started replacing the professionally designed logo with the yellow-green-blue logo from the URA. ...“Tell us why you’re changing the logo, Max,” Milonas continued. “This isn’t San Francisco or Seattle. This is Wyoming.”

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Kate Meadows
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Kate Meadows is a writer for Cowboy State Daily.

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