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Public Art Request for Proposals. The Public Art Commission will hold a public hearing to consider staff recommendations related to the release of Requests for Proposals (RFP) for physical public art and cultural arts and arts programming in the City of Alameda. Release of the RFPs is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act
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To: Honorable Chair and
Members of the Public Art Commission
From: Lois Butler
Economic Development Manager
Date: July 19, 2017
RE: Public Art Request for Proposals. The Public Art Commission will hold a public hearing to consider staff recommendations related to the release of Requests for Proposals (RFP) for physical public art and cultural arts and arts programming in the City of Alameda. Release of the RFPs is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act.
BACKGROUND
Alameda Municipal Code Section 30-65 Public Art in New Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Municipal Construction (the "Ordinance") was adopted in 2003, to require that major development projects include on-site public art. The Ordinance also permits an applicant to pay a fee in-lieu of providing the art on-site. Any in-lieu fees collected are deposited in the dedicated Public Art Fund (the "Fund"). The Fund can then only be used by the City to provide or support public art.
Since 2003, eleven public art installations have been completed on-site or are in progress at various private and municipal developments. Because many developers have chosen to install art on-site, annual in-lieu contributions to the Fund have been minimal, and the fund balance remained relatively low. Historically, the small size of the Fund made dispersal of funds a challenge: from fiscal years 2003-04 to 2014-15, the average Fund balance was $62,649, with a maximum balance of $83,807. To date, the Fund was used for a consultant study, described below, and to cover City costs to administer the program. In fiscal year 2016-1...
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