A confusing and rather silly debate flared up tonight over the city’s new website, and the fact that it includes a new city logo. Marcie Palmer and I first noticed this at a review of the proposed new city website last Thursday, and as a result Marcie made a motion tonight that we hold a Committee of the Whole discussion to decide whether council really supports devising a new logo. Marcie and I pointed out that such a change could lead to costly changes throughout the city as this logo is used on signs, uniforms, police cars, library cards, stationary, buidings, …you get the picture.
The mayor response was that she wasn’t really changing the logo, that the website was just featuing a new look. But other council members then pressed for an answer as to why the website did not incorporate the existing logo, and the answers failed to make sense. The mayor told us it would be virtually impossible to include the existing logo on the new website without delaying the launch by months and spending large amounts of money, something that no one else in the chambers seemed to really believe. Marcie got her motion passed, and then the mayor responded by telling the staff not to work on the new website anymore, or something like that.
The existing logo includes a upper case letter R, containing a small stylized images of a tree, airplane, and factory, surrounded by a circle with the words City of Renton. The new proposed logo is the word renton, in lower case, with the loop on the letter r extended somewhat like a nike swoosh, as an arc over the “e”,the “n” and the “t”.
Mayor’s new logo
I think it would be cheaper to just get rid of the mayor. BTW, is there anybody left who will admit to ever having voted for her?
Renton LOGO
Last night’s council meeting was Democracy in action! I commend you for putting the Mayor in her rightful place as overseer, not ruler. It was really entertaining, as well. Shirley Gaunt-Smith
I don’t know how to be an accepted user on this thing.
Re: Renton LOGO
Thanks for your kind words!
To be an accepted user, you simply have to open a LiveJournal account…and it won’t cost a thing. Go to the signup page, and create and account name and password for yourself. It’s awesome if you can then upload a picture, but you don’t have to.
The great thing about signing in is that you can then edit your comments even after they are posted. This is a nice feature if you make an error, or if you change your mind about something later. This is one of the nicest aspects of Livejournal.
I hope some of you sign up. It would be a great way for me to stay in touch with the public, without the communication being censored by anyone, and in a way that is completely open to all.
Best wishes!
Randy
from Inez Somerville Petersen
I beat Randy to the punch on comments, so you can read mine under his entry for Jul. 17th, 2006 04:44 pm.
I’m so proud of the City Council’s vote to pull back on Community Renewal and for their requiring Council buy-off on the new website, which by the way, is a waste of money in my mind.
The mayor is providing VHS tapes as the media for Public Infomration Requests for City Council meetings and Committees of the Whole, everyone else in the world is using DVD and streaming video. We don’t get the latter, but we get a new website which probably isn’t “value added” if one analyzed what it does verses what the current site does. And if we are just talking about update screens as the value-added component, that could have been with the current website.