Read my previous post of January 29, 2023. The design that was supposed to be a new logo instead looks like a city seal. The vendor said it was not a replacement for the city's seal but the average person looking at it would think it was a seal. As mentioned in the previous post the council tabled the issue and it's not coming back up until the February 27th council meeting. That will be after the city's State of the City address.
I sent a query to both the mayor and the city's communications manager asking when a retraction/correction would be forthcoming regarding the erroneous info in the City Line magazine. The mayor has not replied. The communications manager said there would be no retraction/correction. I've been around the city long enough to know that that comment from the communications manager had to be a relay from the mayor. She really made the communications manager look bad.
That design again, is not a logo. I seriously doubt if it will ever be approved. From all things that have been said it would appear that the mayor used her position to push her own concept down everybody's throat.
A logo needs to be short, small, and readily recognized as to who or what it belongs to. Shawnee can have a logo that recognizes its history yet is forward looking for the dynamic city that we are becoming. It should not look like something that can be used as a location shoot for Little House on the Prairie. People love the home town feel, but they also want to move forward with more businesses, upscale retail and restaurants.
So, our mayor does not want to face the truth. Why should that surprise me as our perjury performing mayor has shown in the past that she can't be trusted to tell the truth.
The two pages from the City Line are below.
