<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Tkeisha,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">As a local building owner in Stayton, my family has been very interested in having a mural painted on a large wall on the outside of aour building. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In regards to the subject matter, as we understand it, the mural should be non-commercial in content (ie not containing the business name or specific objects for sale in the building).</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It should not be an advertisement but rather an artistic representation of historical content or an area-specific theme. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The mural</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> can also be purely artistic with no particular historical context in design. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We have considered the past historical uses of our building to make a montage of themes to portray. Our building was the town jail, the city hall, the fire station, various retail establishments, and a couple of local newspapers. So...a lot</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> of history to consider! </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><u>Ultimately, the design choice should rest with the building owner and business owner</u> (if two separate parties). </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is nice to get public input or support and to consider adding a recurring design element from other local murals (like the bigfoot), to draw interest in a walking tour. One major item to consider is; who is paying for the mural design and installation. That will also give some perspective on design input.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Aaron Frichtl</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">President</div><div class="gmail_default" style="">Revitalize Downtown Stayton</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="mailto:info@downtownstayton.org">info@downtownstayton.org</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">208.946.7704</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 9:47 AM Dan Fleishman <<a href="mailto:dfleishman@staytonoregon.gov">dfleishman@staytonoregon.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tkeisha,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My response will be coming from the perspective the city more than from the main st group. When Revitalize Downtown Stayton approached the City with a public art project, the city staff was hesitant to be the judge of suitability. We
recommended to the City Council that they create a public art committee. I researched what other Oregon cities had done and based our code substantially on Ashland’s (if I recall correctly) and borrowed from a few other cities as well.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You may wish to have a similar conversation with the City of Sheridan.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dan Fleishman<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I am working from home several days a week. On Tuesdays and Thursday, you will generally be able to reach me at 541-207-2558.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> OMS_MANAGERS <<a href="mailto:oms_managers-bounces@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">oms_managers-bounces@omls.oregon.gov</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eddie Nelson via OMS_MANAGERS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 6, 2022 9:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Oregon Main Street Network Members <<a href="mailto:oms_managers@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">oms_managers@omls.oregon.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Murals and public comment/feedback<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Sorry to hear you are having problems with the artist. My first instinct is to just ignore her and it will eventually go away. On the process, I would recommend a committee
that would include different individuals from Sheridan and have artist submit their samples to be decided. The building owner should have the final say as to what will be put up on their building.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">When we did wing murals in Dallas, we showed the building owners the sample before we proceeded. There was also an agreement with the building owner that they signed which
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Looking forward seeing your new mural. I come to Sheridan often to see friends.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">We just had our first mural go up in our small town of Sheridan, which was done in cooperation with our Main Street Group (Sheridan Revitalization), the property
owner/manager and the local artist. It's a brightly colored mural with Oregon and local elements (trees, animals, our bridge, etc) and in the shape of a mandala. So far most people really like it, even though it's not totally finished as the rain started.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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to state her strong dislike of the mural and of our process in having the mural go up or doing them at all. She likened the mural to looking like a seagull pooped on the wall. She was rather offensive, but it got me thinking that maybe we do need to look at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">We started on this project actually before Covid, when we mentioned the plan publically on social media, also in the local paper and continued the discussion
during almost every public meeting, which were also advertised. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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way too complicated so we decided we would let the artist and property owner decide on the artwork, with the agreement that it wouldn't be anything political and that it would include a bigfoot. The idea is to have a bigfoot hidden in each mural, to tie them
all together and to bring interest in the idea of a walking mural tour of the town.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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or if it gets approved? I don't want to make things more complicated, since it's really just a feat for us to get a mural up at all, but I also don't want to create needless upset within the community. As a note, there is no public ordinance as relates to
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want to make major changes just because she has a problem, but I do want to make sure we are comfortable with our process moving forward.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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