Payroll errors in 2022 caused the NFL to deprive the San Francisco 49ers of a 2025 fifth-round draft pick and forfeit a better position in the fourth round of the 2024 draft due to an accounting error that occurred impacted salary cap projections.

“This action resulted from a league review that identified errors in payroll processing at the end of the 2022 league year that resulted in a misstatement of the club’s cumulative player compensation. “The NFL concluded that regardless of the error, the club would have remained under the salary cap at all times and there was no intent to circumvent the cap,” the league said in a statement.

Statement from the NFL regarding the #49ers forfeiting their original 5th round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft and moving their 4th round pick this year to the bottom of the round behind the compensatory pick (No. 135):

“This action resulted from a review by the league which determined that….”

— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) March 18, 2024

The NFL also moved the San Francisco 49ers' fourth-round draft pick, No. 131, to the bottom of the round, behind the compensatory picks, at No. 135.

“We accept responsibility and accept the disciplinary action imposed by the NFL due to a payroll clerical error. At no time did we mislead or otherwise deceive the league or gain any competitive advantage in connection with the payroll error,” the 49ers said in a statement Monday.

Important offseason dates for the San Francisco 49ers

• March 13th – The 2024 free agency signing period has begun
• 24th-27th March – Annual league meeting in Orlando
• 25-27 April – NFL Draft in Detroit

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BETHEL — The town’s public school district is on a mission to fix the high school’s dysfunctional heating, ventilation and air conditioning system — but doing so could cost much more than experts initially expected.

Bethel High School’s HVAC system — which was not updated when the school was renovated in 2007 to 2009 — has posed problems for several years.

“We’ve been having kind of like a battle with a lot of the units,” Superintendent Christine Carver said Tuesday. “They’re kind of in constant need of repair.”

Freezing temperatures in January 2018 caused the heating and air conditioning unit in the school’s gym, as well as other systems across campus, to fail — forcing the school to move some classes and install temporary heating systems until permanent repairs could be made. A large rooftop unit above the gym was so badly damaged that it had to be completely replaced. 

Now, the school district has received a preliminary cost estimate of more than $9 million to fix these and other similar problems. The superintendent hopes this cost can be reduced. 

In the spring of 2020, Carver said engineering consulting firm Kohler Ronan conducted “an extensive study” of the high school’s HVAC system, which identified “the biggest priorities in terms of repairs to the system and providing air conditioning in all the spaces.”

“We did it because we wanted to use part of our district’s ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funds because we knew there were units that were having issues — plus, we wanted to see what it would take to air condition the un-air conditioned spaces in the high school,” she said, noting that there are 35 spaces in the high school that lack air conditioning.

With around $1.5 million already allocated to updating the high school’s HVAC system — $700,000 from the school district’s ESSER grant money and $855,000 from the town’s American Rescue Plan Act funds — the school district is seeking more funding through the state HVAC Indoor Air Quality Grants for Public Schools program.

The grant program — overseen by the Department of Administrative Services Office of School Construction Grants and Review — was established earlier this year to encourage public school districts to install, replace or upgrade heating, ventilation or air conditioning systems in order to improve indoor air quality.

As Finance and Business Operations Director Jennifer Variale said during the Board of Education’s Nov. 17 meeting, different parts of Bethel High School have different HVAC-related needs.

“We have some sections that were never air-conditioned and … there are other parts of the building where we have existing air conditioning but there are air quality issues and noise issues,” she said.

The administrative offices, media center and adjoining classrooms are among the school’s priority areas.

Variale said the way the system is set up now is “like having one thermostat for a huge area, where it really needs to be broken down into smaller areas so that they can have sufficient climate control.”

An engineer from Kohler Ronan who worked on designs for the school’s HVAC project said system adjustments would improve climate control, increase ventilation and improve indoor air quality in those areas. 

Carver says there is one problem — the latest cost estimate for the HVAC work was “significantly higher” than Kohler Ronan had initially anticipated.

“Preliminary cost estimates came out at over $9 million, which is much, much more, and I think that’s an indication of a lot of things lately in terms of supply chain, escalations of cost and just general inflation,” Carver said Tuesday.

The estimated cost may change, as Kohler Ronan has expressed interest in reviewing the latest estimates to identify any inaccuracies and reduce costs and contingency. 

Carver said “better estimates” will be available Nov. 29, when school administration meets with the boards of selectmen and finance to discuss the state HVAC grant application.

“We’re having a joint meeting to determine what they would like us to apply for in the grant and to what dollar amount,” she said.

Even though the cost estimates are higher than originally anticipated, Carver said she thinks they will still be able to take care of all the priority areas that Kohler Ronan originally identified in its 2020 study.

“At the end of the day, I think we’ll end up taking care of the biggest priorities,” she said. “We may not get all of the space air conditioned, but we’ll make another dent at it and address some of the infrastructure issues that weren’t done as part of the original (high school) renovation.”

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The Rev. Bill Farmer reached the point where he couldn’t stay in the United Methodist Church anymore — but the congregation he attended was staying.

Michael Hahn always wanted to stay in the UMC — but his congregation was leaving it.

Each has found new church homes, and they’re not alone.

The Rev. Bill Farmer, center, speaks to members of the congregation during service at the Grace Methodist Church on May 14 in Homosassa Springs, Fla. Many departing churches are joining the conservative Global Methodist Church, created last year, while others are going independent or joining other denominations.  

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Thousands of United Methodist congregations have been voting on whether to stay or quit one of the nation’s largest denominations amid intractable debates over theology and the role of LGBTQ people. There are sharp differences over recognizing same-sex marriage and ordaining LGBTQ clergy.

But the dividing line isn’t just running between congregations. It’s running right through the pews of individual churches, separating people who had long worshipped together.

Those who come up on the short end of a disaffiliation vote face the dilemma of whether stay or go.

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The splintering — often grievous and tense — has spurred new initiatives to provide havens for the unmoored. Some United Methodist regional conferences have begun designating “Lighthouse” congregations — ones that actively welcome people who wanted to stay United Methodist but whose former churches voted to leave. Other conferences use different names, such as “Beacon” or “Oasis,” but the idea is the same.

“The pain is real, and there is a lot of grief and a lot of heartache over the split in the United Methodist Church,” said the Rev. Lynda Ferguson, the great-grandchild of a circuit-riding Methodist pastor.

Her North Carolina church, First United Methodist Asheboro, became a Lighthouse congregation. That assures newcomers that it’s committed to staying United Methodist, so they won’t have to worry about another disaffiliation vote. More than 400 congregations have disaffiliated in North Carolina.

Ferguson said she can personally relate to those from departing congregations. Her childhood church — the one that shaped her faith and where at age 12 she felt the call to ministry — also voted to leave.

“Part of the Lighthouse mission is to let people know the United Methodist Church is still here and still welcoming,” said the Rev. Ed McKinney, pastor of Stokesdale United Methodist Church in Stokesdale, North Carolina, which also became a Lighthouse congregation.

Michael Hahn and his family are among a group of newcomers who have begun participating in Stokesdale after their previous congregations left the denomination.

Hahn, whose family has been Methodist for generations, said he couldn’t imagine leaving the denomination, which he values for blending faith and rationality.

Many of the departing churches are joining the conservative Global Methodist Church, created last year. Others are going independent or joining different denominations.

While the Global Methodist Church doesn’t have a program like the Lighthouse initiative, it has begun launching or adopting congregations that can become homes for those who want to leave the United Methodist Church but whose congregations are staying.

That was the case with the founders of Grace Methodist Church. They launched the church in January in Homosassa, Florida, after their previous congregation voted to stay in the UMC. The new church immediately affiliated with the Global Methodist Church. Farmer came out of retirement to serve as the church’s pastor.

The group’s previous congregation “was a good church,” Farmer said, and he wished it well. But “my struggle was with the United Methodist structure, what’s going on in the United States, particularly.”

The ongoing schism has been long in the making. The United Methodist Church — with about 6.5 million members in the United States and at least that many abroad — has long debated its bans on same-sex marriages and the ordination of openly LGBTQ clergy.

The denomination has repeatedly upheld the bans, largely through the voting strength of the growing, more conservative churches abroad. But conservatives chose to form a new denomination amid growing defiance of the bans in U.S. churches.

Members of the congregation sing during service at the Grace Methodist Church on May 14 in Homosassa Springs, Fla. Grace Methodist Church launched in January after their previous congregation voted to stay in the UMC.  

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More than 3,500 U.S. congregations have received their local conferences’ permission to disaffiliate from the UMC, according to United Methodist News Service. With conference season underway, disaffiliations are closing in on 4,000 and could rise even more by the end of the year, said the Rev. Jay Therrell, president of the Wesleyan Covenant Association, a conservative group advocating for departing congregations.

That’s a fraction of the United Methodists’ 30,000 U.S. churches, though several of the departing congregations are among the largest in their states.

In the Arkansas Conference, more than 100 churches — out of roughly 600 total — have received permission to disaffiliate. That leaves parts of the state with few or no remaining United Methodist congregations, said the Rev. Michael Roberts, director of the conference’s new Restart Initiative, which is hoping to enlist congregations to be Beacon churches. Such churches would invite self-described “exiles, refugees, nomads” to worship services, help them start home groups or develop other ways to keep them connected.

“We’re just really simply inviting churches to consider how they can provide this kind of hospitality,” Roberts said. “I love the word ‘hospitality’ because the word ‘hospital’ comes from that word. It is about providing healing.”

From Stonewall to today: 50+ years of modern LGBTQ+ history

From Stonewall to today: 50+ years of modern LGBTQ+ history

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, the New York Police Department unwittingly helped start the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. At the time, clubs with gay or lesbian patrons weren’t allowed to serve alcohol, but the Stonewall Inn still served booze to their customers, which gave police cause to raid the bar. The clientele pushed back, and 13 people were arrested. LGBTQ+ people and their allies protested for days. Among the crowd was transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson, who later founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), an organization that provided resources for LGBTQ+ youth and sex workers.

After the events at Stonewall—which the NYPD eventually apologized for in 2019—more and more people pushed for LGBTQ+ equality. Activists organized the first LGBTQ+ marches in the United States and around the world, giving rise to annual Pride parades. In 1973, the American Psychological Association no longer considered being gay or lesbian a mental illness, and the first openly lesbian politicians were elected in the following year. Currently, openly gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer candidates occupy political offices at most levels of government, including in the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and state governorships. 

There is still more to be done, but since Stonewall, the government has passed laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, and the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal. More than two dozen countries have passed legislation giving marriage rights to everyone.

In the military, it took decades for gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members to win the right to enlist. And it wasn’t until 2011 that LGBTQ+ troops could openly serve in the United States armed forces. While the Obama administration repealed the ban on transgender troops in 2016, former President Donald Trump effectively reinstated it in 2019 (though the ban was overturned by the Biden administration in 2021).

To find out more about LGBTQ+ history, Stacker combed through news reports and used data from GLSEN to compile over 50 years of LGBTQ+ progress. Read on to see the evolution of this movement, from then to now.

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1969: Stonewall Riots

Anger erupted after New York City police arrested 13 people during a raid at the Stonewall Inn, a bar and safe space for the LGBTQ+ community. Advocates protested for days, even though police took action—even turning fire hoses onto the crowd. Many say the event catalyzed the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.

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1969: Gay Liberation Front forms

The events of Stonewall led to the creation of the GLF, a group that organized the Christopher Street Liberation Day in New York in 1970—now considered the first Pride parade. It started with only a few hundred people, but by the time the group reached Central Park, thousands were marching for LGBTQ+ equality.

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1972: Sweden allows people to legally change gender

In 1972, Sweden became the first country to give people the right to legally change their gender on identifying documents. However, people needed to be over 18 years old, unmarried, and sterilized; the country didn’t remove the mandatory sterilization law until 2013. In some U.S. states, people still need to undergo gender-reassignment surgery to legally change their gender.

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1972: UK has first Pride parade

The United Kingdom held the country’s first LGBTQ+ Pride parade on July 1, 1972. Britain’s GLF organized the event, and about 700 people showed up to march. Their slogan was simple: “Gay is good.”

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1973: Homosexuality is no longer classified as a mental illness

Until the early ’70s, physicians could diagnose someone in a same-sex relationship as mentally ill. But in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed “homosexuality” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or the DSM-II).

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1974: First openly lesbian officials elected

Kathy Kozachenko and Elaine Noble became the nation’s first openly lesbian or gay elected officials in 1974. Kozachenko won a seat on the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan, while Noble held a position in the Massachusetts General Assembly.

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1977: First openly gay man elected

Harvey Milk made history when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay male politician elected in a major city. Before he was assassinated a year later, Milk helped pass city ordinances to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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1978: The rainbow flag is created

In 1978, Harvey Milk’s friend Gilbert Baker brought his 30-by-60-foot rainbow flag to an LGBTQ+ rights rally in San Francisco. Afterward, it became an enduring symbol of pride for the LGBTQ+ community. According to The Washington Post, Baker sometimes referred to himself as “the Betsy Ross of gay liberation.” He died in 2017 at the age of 65.

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1981: Norway enacts anti-discrimination laws

In 1981, Norway amended its laws to include protections for LGBTQ+ people. The legislation stated that business owners couldn’t discriminate against customers based on sexual orientation nor deny them access to public events. Hate speech was also prohibited.

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1981: Gay men affected with ‘rare cancer’

In 1981, the New York Times reported 41 gay men had been afflicted with a “rare cancer.” Doctors originally thought HIV/AIDS was a skin cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma. A year later, though, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) started calling the illness “acquired immune deficiency syndrome,” or AIDS.

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1982: Wisconsin passes LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination law

In 1981, Rep. David Clarenbach (D-Wis.) brought forth a measure to protect LGBTQ+ people from employment discrimination in public and private sectors, making Wisconsin the first in the U.S. to pass a statewide law against such discrimination. The law also banned landlords from denying housing based on sexual orientation.

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1983: BiPOL forms

BiPOL, the first bisexual political group, started in San Francisco in 1983. They helped put on the Bisexual Rights Rally a year later, which took place outside the Democratic National Convention.

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1986: Bowers v. Hardwick

After Michael Hardwick failed to show up for a court summons for public drinking, a police officer went to his house. That’s when he and a male friend were arrested for having consensual sex, which was illegal between two people of the same gender. The case, Bowers v. Hardwick, went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the state. The Court didn’t strike down sodomy laws until 2003.

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1986: New York passes anti-discrimination bill

After more than a decade of debate, New York City passed an anti-discrimination bill in 1986: Sexual orientation couldn’t be the basis of discrimination in employment, housing, or public accommodations.

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1987: UK opens first HIV/AIDS clinic

The HIV/AIDS crisis continued into the late ’80s. In 1987, Princess Diana dispelled the myth that the disease could be transmitted by touch: without gloves, she shook the hand of an infected man at the opening of the United Kingdom’s first HIV/AIDS unit at the London Middlesex Hospital.

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1987: Barney Frank comes out as gay

Although his straight allies and colleagues cautioned him against it, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) revealed his sexual orientation in 1987, making him the second openly gay congressman. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) reluctantly came out in 1983. Frank announced his retirement in 2011.

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1987: ACT UP

The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) helped change the way people thought about the disease. Their slogan was simple but effective: “Silence = death.” Many say that the group jump-started a movement that led to the creation of HIV/AIDS drugs.

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1988: National Coming Out Day starts

A year after the second March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, a group of activists founded National Coming Out Day (October 11), which aims to help LGBTQ+ people live openly.

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1989: Denmark legalizes same-sex unions

Demark recognized same-sex domestic partnerships in 1989, which extended the rights of marriage to gay and lesbians couples. In 2010, same-sex couples in the country could register for adoptions, and by 2012, they could legally get married.

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1990: First Pride parade in South Africa

Activist Simon Nkoli helped start the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand. GLOW organized the first Pride parade in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1990, where people also marched against apartheid. Some LGBTQ+ marchers were so scared of exposing themselves that they marched with bags over their faces. Only about 800 people gathered for the first parade; by 2018, that number swelled to 22,000.

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1994: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ enacted

Then-President Bill Clinton signed “don’t ask, don’t tell” as a compromise with Republicans: gay and lesbian service members could join the military, but they could not tell anyone about their sexual orientation. Some officials—including Colin Powell, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time—voiced concerns about AIDS and whether gay and straight soldiers would have to live in the same quarters.

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1995: Gay and lesbian workers can get government security clearance

Until 1995, someone who was gay or lesbian might not get a federal security clearance because government officials considered sexual orientation a security risk, the rationale being that gay and lesbian people who kept their lives secret could be subject to blackmail. Then-President Bill Clinton signed an executive order ending the regulation.

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1996: President Bill Clinton signs Defense of Marriage Act

In 1996, Clinton signed a law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. In 2013, he wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post asking the Supreme Court to overturn DOMA. In the piece, Clinton wrote he be