Lawmakers To Consider Funding Request For Official Portrait Of Gov. Jim Gibbons
CARSON CITY – Jim Gibbons’ lame duck status as chief executive became a certainty on primary election day June 8, but the Legislature will add its own stamp of finality next week when it is asked to approve $20,000 for an official portrait of Nevada’s 28th governor.
Nevada law provides for an official portrait of each departing governor for display in the state Capitol Building.
The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee will consider the request from its contingency fund when it meets June 24.
The last portrait to be unveiled was that of former Gov. Kenny Guinn in May of 2007. Gibbons helped unveil the portrait at the ceremony attended by his predecessor.
By law each portrait is the same size. Every new portrait is hung at the north side of the main entrance to the Capitol, moving their predecessors’ portraits back one spot.
A committee formed by the Department of Cultural Affairs will review the work of multiple artists before making a selection for the portrait.
Gibbons lost his re-election bid to GOP challenger Brian Sandoval in the primary. He will serve out the remainder of his term through the first Monday in January 2011, when a new governor will be sworn into office.
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