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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 06/06/2000 - RESOLUTION 2000-78 APPROVING CERTAIN EXPENDITURES AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 20 DATE: June 6, 2000 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Ellen Martin SUBJECT: Resolution 2000-78 Approving Certain Expenditures from the Art in Public Places Reserve Account. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The funds for this item have been appropriated for Art in Public Places in the Stormwater Utility Fund in 1998-99. The City is in the process of working at the site near Spring Creek. The Stormwater Utility is using $23,000 of their APP funds that are generated from sites, which are inappropriate for public art, and using the funds for art to be placed on the Water Cycle Wall. An additional $1,150 will be used as a contingency for the project. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Section 23-303 of the Code, which was added to the Code in 1995, established the Art in Public Places Reserve Account, and designated it for the acquisition or leasing of works of art, maintenance, repair or display of works of art and for administrative expenses related to the Art in Public Places Program, in accordance with the Art in Public Places Guidelines adopted by the Council via Ordinance No. 47, 1998. The Council permanently adopted the Art in Public Places Program, and reenacted City Code Chapter 23, Article IX,with certain modifications in 1998. In connection with the Water Cycle Wall project, staff and the Art in Public Places (APP) Board have proposed to use $23,000 to commission the artist Janet Austin to collaborate on a community project that is intended to artistically and scientifically show the interaction between water and the many other cycles of nature. The Selection Committee, comprised of seven APP Board members, two representatives from the City's Utility department, and a Purchasing Department representative, chose the artist using the City's competitive bid process. The Committee reviewed the proposals for this project at the board meeting on March 15. The APP Board voted unanimously to select Janet Austin for the Water Cycle Wall project. DATE: June 6, 2000 2 ITEM NUMBER: 20 The artist Janet Austin will work with City Utility staff who work with the Utilities WaterSHED education program and Poudre School children to design and create artistic depictions of plant and animal life cycles. These depictions will be attached to a 32-foot embossed portion of a concrete formed wall located on Spring Creek, immediately upstream (south) of the Drake Road Bridge. This site is accessible from the Spring Creek Bike Trail and will be the site for a future Interpretive Center. RESOLUTION 2000-78 • OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROVING CERTAIN EXPENDITURES FROM THE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES RESERVE ACCOUNT WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 23-304 of the City Code, one percent of the funds appropriated for various eligible storm drainage capital projects,for the period 1998-2000,have been set aside in an Art in Public Places reserve account in the Storm Drainage Fund, for use in the acquisition or leasing of works of art, maintenance, repair or display of works of art, and for administrative expenses related to the Art in Public Places Program, in accordance with the Art in Public Places Guidelines adopted by Council via Ordinance No. 47, 1998 (the "Guidelines"); and WHEREAS, Spring Creek, immediately upstream (south) of the Drake Road Bridge and accessible from the Spring Creek Bike Trail,has been identified as an appropriate site for use of the aforementioned funds that have been set aside in the Art in Public Places Reserve Account in the Storm Drainage Fund for public art; and WHEREAS, the Art in Public Places Board (the `Board") evaluated proposed designs for incorporating works of art into the Spring Creek Basin,through a competitive proposal process based on the Guidelines; and WHEREAS,based on that evaluation,the Board selected the proposal of artist Janet Austin who will work with City Utility Staff to design and create artistic depictions of plant and animal life cycles (the "Water Cycle Wall project"), with the intent to artistically and scientifically show the interaction between water and the many other cycles of nature; and WHEREAS, the estimated cost to create the Water Cycle Wall project, including administration,commission of the artists,contingency and maintenance of the pieces is$24,150;and WHEREAS,adequate funds are available in the Art in Public Places Reserve Account in the Storm Drainage Fund, and are appropriated in the 2000 budget,to provide for the artist design fees, construction and installation of the pieces for the Water Cycle Wall project at Spring Creek; and WHEREAS, Section 23-308 of the City Code requires that the Board's selection of the recommended art proposed at the Spring Creek site be presented for Council review and approval, because the cost of the art exceeds $10,000. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, that the expenditure of up to Twenty-Four Thousand One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($24,150)from the Art in Public Places Reserve Account in the Storm Drainage Fund for the Water Cycle Wall artwork proposed by artist Janet Austin,the conceptual design of whichwas selected and approved by the Art in Public Places Board on March 15, 2000, is hereby authorized. Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 6th day of June A.D. 2000. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Cultural, Library and Recreational Services A Lincoln Center "' m ft- City of Fort Collins ART IMPUBUC PLACES MINUTES -' Regufac Meeting-Wednesday,March 15,2000 Lincoln Center Council Liaison: Karen Weitkunat Staff Liaison: Ellen Martin CRB Liaison: Joan Day Chairperson: Roger Sherman 223-7577(w) Vice Chair: Deanna Gram MEMBERS PRESENT: Elizabeth Dale, Michael Histand, Alan Howe,Jane Liska-Smith, Roger Sherman MEMBERS ABSENT: Deanna Gram, Susan Sternlieb STAFF PRESENT: Ellen Martin, Mark Brelmhorst,Libby Colbert,Jim O'Neill, Marcee Camenson, Kevin McBride I. Call to order 4:05 p.m.—Mr. Sherman Il. Consideration of the agenda III. Approval of minutes from the meeting of February 16, 2000 Ms. Liska-Smith moved to approve the minutes Mr. Howe seconded Approved unanimously IV. Water Cycle Wall Ms. Martin described the artist selection process. Ms. Colbert presented slides and committee members completed the evaluation forms. There was discussion about the project purpose and clarification regarding the students'roles in the project. It was explained that the students will play a participatory role and the City's Utility Staff will educate them on the watershed processes and various life cycles that will be portrayed on the wall. The selected artist will translate the students' ideas into artistic representations to be attached to the wall. It was said that the artist would not educate the students on the processes, but bring the students ideas together through art. The evaluation forms were tallied and the results were given to the Selection Committee. Committee members discussed the applicants'proposals. Ms. Liska Smith moved to accept the selection committee's vote to recommend Janet Austin as the artist for the Water Cycle Wall,and begin contract negotiations. Ms. Dale Seconded Approved Unanimously V. 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