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Palm Desert council weighs codifying city logo use; some members resist redesigning the official seal

Palm Desert City Council · March 27, 2026
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Public affairs staff asked Council whether to codify municipal logo use and pursue a new seal redesign; staff said prior 2023 and 2025 efforts produced no concepts forwarded to Council, and members voiced both support for keeping the historic seal and calls to update it to be more inclusive.

Thomas Soul, Public Affairs Manager, told the Palm Desert City Council on March 26 that staff are proposing municipal-code language to codify use of the city logo and asked whether Council wanted to proceed with a renewed effort to redesign the official city seal.

Soul said the city seal is the codified official symbol used on oaths of office, proclamations and certified documents, while the logo was…

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