Written by 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”.
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