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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Visalia's metropolis assembly members person voted connected which logo the metropolis would usage going forward, but the ballot came connected the aforesaid time the metropolis was expected to beryllium opening the logo redesign process up for nationalist comment.
Councilmembers gathered connected Monday to perceive an update astir the city's logo redesign and sermon however to proceed - resulting successful the logo beneath being chosen. The logo redesign docket previously posted online by the City of Visalia does accidental that the "public remark feedback play opens" connected Monday, the metropolis announced connected Tuesday that the logo beneath volition beryllium the newest metropolis logo going guardant - 10 days earlier the "public remark feedback period" was expected to end.
In May, the City of Visalia changed its metropolis logo for its 150th anniversary, but that alteration was met with pushback from the community. The metropolis past announced successful June that they would beryllium going back to their "legacy logo."
Following the effect to the caller logo, the metropolis asked the community to taxable their ain designs earlier this month. City unit received 87 designs from section artists, who had to travel a database of guidelines, including having a beardown “V” plan and keeping it elemental and modern.
Visalia's metropolis communications and marque manager Allison Mackey says the redesign committee met connected July 8 and reconvened connected July 10 to further sermon the logo. Committee members looked astatine the selected logos and Mackey says 4 retired of the 5 committee members recommended a fiscal compensation of $1,500 and a plaque for the idiosyncratic who had their logo selected.
During the metropolis assembly gathering connected Monday, nationalist remark included suggestions that the metropolis has been giving olive branches to the assemblage and that "this logo fiasco has gone agelong enough."
The Logo Redesign Process, arsenic published by the City of Visalia connected its website.In the metropolis assembly meeting, Councilmember Emmanuel Hernandez Soto thanked the committee for their clip and said helium did not privation to alteration the timeline.
"I hatred to alteration the timeline, lone due to the fact that we did springiness the nationalist that deadline originally. But I besides deliberation that we person spent capable clip connected this," Soto said.
According to the city's website, the nationalist remark feedback play was expected to adjacent connected July 26. On Aug. 5, the metropolis assembly was expected to ballot connected the logo retired of the 5 finalists chosen.
Councilmember Liz Wynn agreed with Soto that the process had gone connected agelong enough, with Vice Mayor Brett Taylor and Visalia Mayor Brian Poochigian also choosing to ballot connected a logo. During the gathering connected Monday, Councilmember Steve Nelsen said helium didn't privation to person to prime a caller logo and felt similar they should person had the erstwhile "new" logo.
"We person mode bigger issues we person to woody with," Nelsen said. "When we look astatine the budget, we had nary 1 successful the assemblage to sermon budget. You got homelessness, litter connected trails, you got parks, a large contented close present is water, yet nary 1 sits connected a committee gathering connected water."
At the extremity of the treatment astir the logo, the assembly each favored a question to prime logo 59 arsenic the caller logo.
In their post connected societal media, the City of Visalia told its residents that officials "still privation to perceive from you" and asked for nationalist remark connected the caller logo to beryllium sent to communityfeedback@visalia.city.
