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Approval of Revised Art in Pubic Places Board Policies and Guidelines
Recommended Action
I move Council approve the revised Policies and Guidelines for the Art in Public Places Board as presented.
Board, Commission or Committee Recommendation
The Art in Public Places Board approved these revisions and recommends Council approval.
Body
As required by their enabling legislation (County Code 8-33-6) the Art in Public Places Board (APPB) is tasked with recommending policies that are necessary to effect the purpose of the APPB’s tasks and responsibilities, subject to the approval of Council.
The last major re-write of these policies and guidelines was approved by Council on November 19, 1991; however, the portion of the policy related to donations was completely re-written and approved by Council on February 21, 2014.
The Board has discussed and noted the need for reviewing and re-writing the policies many times over the 25 years since 1991, but didn’t undertake the task until the Council allowed the appointment of two provisional APPB members during 2013-2015. One provisional member, John Hopkins, was instrumental in getting this overhaul completed and the board greatly appreciates his efforts and expertise in this area.
One goal of the re-write was to make the APPB Policies and Guidelines more cohesive by combining various APPB policy documents into one document. The document now being presented to Council includes all general APPB policies and guidelines plus the donation policy and the APPB guidelines for plaques and signs have now been incorporated as appendices.
Other revisions/additions to the policies and guidelines are described below:
One objective of the overhaul was to make the policies less prescriptive and more descriptive regarding the current methods used by the art board as they select and recommend artwork purchases. For example, the former list of difficult-to-apply criteria (Quality, Style and Nature, Elements of Design, Permanence, ...
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