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Evaluation of Physical Art Proposals. The Public Art Commission will hold a public hearing to review, evaluate, and recommend awardees to City Council in response to the City's Request for Proposals to provide public art funds for physical art in Alameda. The proposed physical public art installations are Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines Section 15303, New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures
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To: Honorable Chair and
Members of the Public Art Commission
From: Lois Butler
Economic Development Manager
Date: June 18, 2018
RE: Evaluation of Physical Art Proposals. The Public Art Commission will hold a public hearing to review, evaluate, and recommend awardees to City Council in response to the City's Request for Proposals to provide public art funds for physical art in Alameda. The proposed physical public art installations are Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines Section 15303, New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures.
BACKGROUND
In September of 2017, the City of Alameda released a Request for Proposals ("RFP") for $262,500 in physical public art in Alameda. Tonight the top-ranked proposals are before the Public Art Commission (PAC) for review and ranking. These proposals are the result of a years-long effort undertaken by the PAC and the Alameda arts community to release Public Art Fund ("Fund") monies and bring new physical art to the City of Alameda.
Alameda Municipal Code Section 30-98 Public Art in New Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Municipal Construction (the "Ordinance") requires 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 Fund. The Fund can then only be used by the City to provide or support p...
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