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Like his predecessors, Rocky Anderson will see his likeness memorialized on canvas.
The Salt Lake City mayor has included $20,000 in his budget for his portrait. He has selected an artist - Russian native and now Holladay resident Galina Perova - and says it will be done in the next few months.
While mayors in the past have commissioned their portraits in their final years of office, Anderson said the timing of his doesn't mean he is announcing his retirement.
"It does not signify anything, whether I'm running or not," Anderson said this week. He added that he wants his portrait done now before he ages any further. He will turn 55 in September.
The mayor is in the third year of his second term. He is still deciding whether he will seek a third.
Perova painted former Mayor Deedee Corradini's portrait for $15,000. Her portrait used to hang near Anderson's office on the third floor of City Hall, but Anderson had it removed to the other end of the hall near the City Council.
Several portraits of the capital's mayors hang on the third floor. The first mayor is there, Jedediah M. Grant, who was in charge from 1851-1857. LDS Church leader Brigham Young also has a place at City Hall. The LDS temple is in the background as Young, also the state's first territorial governor, stands with his hand on The Book of Mormon near a world globe. Council members gaze at Young's likeness when they meet, since it hangs in their formal meeting room.
- Heather May