City Code Section
Any City official or employee acting on behalf of a participating bureau who authorizes or appropriates expenditures for an improvement project will include in the capital improvement program of the City’s capital budget, and except as provided herein for funds used to generate creative space, disburse to the Office of Arts & Culture, a monetary contribution for public art equal to two percent of the total eligible costs or two percent of the total eligible funds of the improvement project, whichever is less.
- A. The participating bureau representative will authorize using the contribution of eligible costs or eligible funds for:
- 1. Public art sited in, on or about the subject improvement project; or
- 2. Public art on another property owned, leased, rented by, donated to or otherwise made available to the City; or
- 3. Artists-in-residence; or
- 4. Creative space; or
- 5. Any combination of Subsections 1. through 4.
- B. The Office of Arts & Culture will adopt administrative rules and procedures to implement this section, which to the greatest extent practicable will set forth the same procedures to be followed by all participating bureaus.
- C. The Office of Arts & Culture or designee will develop project plans for eligible costs or eligible funds that take into account the views of the participating bureau, with final approval of the project plans from the City Administrator.