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Option 1 – “The overall design mimics Ohio’s State flag, with the colors and symbols of Marysville’s logo. The green was maintained to build on the city’s slogan, ‘Where the grass is greener.’”

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Option 2 – “The design uses the City of Marysville logo, so I simply used the dark green and light green colors contained in the logo. I chose white as the third color because Marysville is a ‘white picket fence’ kind of community. Plus, you can’t go anywhere in town without seeing someone in ‘Honda Whites.’ The light green is on the bottom to represent grass because the grass is greener in Marysville.”

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Option 3 – “This flag features the City’s logo on a green background. The lime green pillars on both sides of the flag represent the strength of the City.”

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Marysville officials are looking to officially recognize a flag. And they want to do it by Monday.

At Monday night’s city council work session, Anna Krutowskis, Senior Executive Assistant for the City of Marysville, presented the finding of the city’s flag committee.

Krutowskis said the committee received 41 flag entries. She said the entries were received from the city as well as some from outside the U.S.

“We were really happy,” Krutowskis said.

She said the seven-member committee reviewed all of the submissions and selected three finalists.

She asked council to “review these, look at the artist statement, and ultimately come to consensus for one design you like and we can adopt that design at the June 10 council meeting.”

“It has not been an easy process,” Marysville City Manager Terry Emery told council. “It has been a very difficult process, but in the end, I think we have some really good examples of what we want to.”

Council members discussed the things they liked and disliked, often a portion of the council appreciated an element that others did not. As an example, some members appreciated that the pennant design mimics the State of Ohio’s. Other council members did not. Some members liked the simplicity of the third design, while others did not.

All three of the designs used the city’s green color pallet. Krutowskis said there were other colors used, but “committee members steered away from them because these aren’t Marysville’s colors.”

She added that red, white and blue designs looked like the Marysville Schools colors.

Council members asked if they could mix and match specific elements from each of the flags.

“We can ask,” Krutowskis said. “I am just not sure how that looks.”

She explained that rather than hire an artist, local residents were asked to submit designs.

She said each of the artists has “signed an agreement and waiver.”

Council members asked if any of the designs had a nod to the city’s agricultural heritage. Member Henk Berbee said he remembers the green sweep over the “m” in the Marysville logo as representing wheat.

“That has always been the intent,” Berbee said.

Mark Reams said he always thought it represented grass.

“The beauty is, it can be seen as whatever you see it,” Emery said.

City officials reiterated that council members need to organize their thoughts and have them to Krutowskis in time for next week’s regularly scheduled council meeting. She said she will compile the council comments and create a recommendation to present.

She said that once the design is approved, replicas will be made and it will be officially raised on the city birthday, Aug. 10.

Emery said that once it is unveiled, “you are going to see it quite a bit.”

“You will see them on flag poles, on light poles, at city facilities,” Emery said.

He explained that he sees the flag as something that could be given to council members and longtime city employees when they leave.

Council member Nevin Taylor asked if there would be an option for residents to purchase and fly their own Marysville flag. Krutowskis said there would be flags for sale.







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