Title
Municipal Art Project Status Report
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
The Arts Commission recommends three projects be approved and forwarded on to Council for approval.
City Manager Recommendation:
Receive the status report. Then move to approve the recommendations of the Arts Commission and forward to Council for approval.
Report
Issue:
Whether to receive the status report with recommendation to move forward three projects currently on the Arts Commission workplan.
Staff Contact:
Stephanie Johnson, Arts Program Manager, Parks, Arts & Recreation, 360.709.2678.
Presenter(s):
Stephanie Johnson, Arts Program Manager
Marygrace Jennings, Chair, Olympia Arts Commission
Diana Fairbanks, Chair, Art in Public Place Committee of the Olympia Arts Commission
Background and Analysis:
The Arts Commission requests approval to move forward on the following projects. General Government has been formerly briefed on the first three, and so discussion will cover progress made since the last visit. Related files attached for additional background.
1) Music Out Loud
Recommendation: Budget approval*.
*City Manager recommends approval provided the project budget can be significantly reduced.
March 24, 2016, 5p.m. was the deadline for request for response for the lithomosaic fabrication and installation component of the Music Out Loud project. Because the project requires a level of aesthetic finishing not typical to public works (structural) projects, the request was put out as an RFP. The City received one response, from Belarde Company, which has been the sole lithocrete licensee in the Pacific Northwest since 2007. The bid was for $77,732.16. Because the bid was so much higher than anticipated ($37,800 for the entire project), City staff contacted Belarde Company to determine what caused the difference in price. The company responded that there had been some uncertainty in the sequencing of the three sites, and because they were bidding in advance of ...
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