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Oregon City staff and arts commission discuss municipal-code updates for Arts Commission membership and new mural rules, including AI guidance
Summary
City staff proposed updates to Chapter 2.26 (Arts Commission charter) and Chapter 15.28 (murals) to clarify membership, terms and mural restoration procedures and to build flexibility for future policies on the use of artificial intelligence in public murals; legal review and further edits were requested.
City staff and Arts Commission members spent substantial time on Oct. 7 reviewing proposed municipal-code changes that would update the Arts Commission’s charter and rules for public murals.
Staff said the code cleanup responds to outdated language and procedural gaps. Economic Development Manager James Grama told the joint work session that the chapter on the Arts Commission (Chapter 2.26) contained decades-old references and that proposed edits aim to “clean up language, clarify things, and address some of the protocol things we wanted to address.” Grama said one numerical line needed correction after the commission’s prior review: the draft intended a maximum of three “citizens at large,” not two, to align with the proposed residency percentages.
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