TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Mark Leyman, Director of Parks and Recreation
Martin Betz, Cultural Arts Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Decommissioning Policy for Public Art (Parks and Recreation Director Leyman).
APPROVE
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council approve the Decommissioning Policy for Public Art.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There are no fiscal implications associated with the recommended action.
BACKGROUND:
At the Joint City Council and Cultural Arts Commission meeting held on October 29, 2013, the City Council approved the ability of the Cultural Arts Commission to develop a general decommissioning policy for Art in Public Places. A decommissioning policy is the first step in the development of an inventory list of art works owned by the City. This inventory also includes a condition reporting process. From this inventory and the decommissioning policy work sheet a determination as to the future viability of a specific artwork can be determined.
DISCUSSION:
The City of Manhattan Beach's Decommissioning Policy is designed to ensure that the decommissioning of works of art is governed by careful procedures.
As the Art in Public Places, a program of the Cultural Arts Division, with recommendations from the Cultural Arts Commission and direction from the City Council, has the responsibility of conserving the City's Public Art Collection, and because disposal of artworks is generally irrevocable, decommissioning should be a deliberate procedure. Staff has developed a Decommissioning Policy Worksheet which provides guidelines and clear parameters for determining when the artwork should be decommissioned. (see Attachment 2&3). For example, artwork should not be decommissioned simply because its original aesthetics are not popular and not to dispose of works whose w...
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