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Residents and business groups urge city to preserve 'Charlie Brown' mural; downtown nonprofits ask council to waive $245 event permit fee
Summary
During public comment at the March 25 meeting Doug Rudolph urged the city to protect the 'Charlie Brown' water tower painting; Downtown Pullman Association speakers offered a $42,000 donation for downtown lighting and asked the council to consider waiving a newly adopted $245 permit fee for nonprofit events.
Several members of the public used the March 25 public comment period to press the council on local landmarks and event permitting.
Doug Rudolph, who identified himself as the student who painted the Charlie Brown character on the city water tower in 1963, asked the council to prevent the painting from being obscured by communications equipment. Rudolph said Charlie Brown has become a “much‑loved Pullman icon” and suggested repainting the figure on the south side of the tower—the only face currently free of…
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