APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. ______________ C.M.S.
RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-2027 PUBLIC ART PROJECTS PLAN AND THE 2023-2024 PUBLIC ART ACTIVITIES
REPORT
WHEREAS, the City of Oakland’s Public Art (Ordinance No. 11086 C.M.S.), adopted in 1989 (amended in 2019: Ordinance No. 13562 C.M.S.), established the Public Art Program, the Public Art Advisory Committee, and requirements for adoption of a Public Art Projects Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Public Art Projects Plan must include project descriptions, budgets, locations, and recommended design approaches for projects; and be developed by Cultural Affairs Division staff, in consultation with appropriate City capital project staff, before submission to the Public Art Advisory Committee and City Council for approval and implementation; and
WHEREAS, the Public Art Project Account within the Cultural Affairs Division budget receives the 1.5% appropriated from capital improvement project (CIP) budgets, funds contributed to the City from private developers as in-lieu contributions, and private contributions to the public art program; and
WHEREAS, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2027 Public Art Projects Plan was developed by Cultural Affairs Public Art Program staff in coordination with financial and capital project management staff of the City’s Public Works Agency-Project Delivery Division, and Department of Transportation-Planning and Project Delivery (see Attach ment A to the staff report accompanying this Resolution); and
WHEREAS, on March 3, 2025, the Public Art Advi sory Committee ap proved the FY 2025-2027 Public Art Projects Plan and 2023-2024 Public Art Activities Report; and
WHEREAS, many of the projects in th e Public Art Projects Plan have funds previously appropriated as part of the CIP program, and no further appropriation is required, however certain in-lieu public art contributions and other contributions in the Public Art Project Account have not been previously appropriated for specific projects; now, therefore, be it
2 RESOLVED: That the City Council adopts the FY 2025-2027 Public Art Projects Plan and 2023-2024 Activities Report.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - BROWN, FIFE, HOUSTON, KAPLAN, RAMACHANDRAN, UNGER, AND
PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE GALLO
NOES –
ABSENT – COUNCIL PRESIDENT JENKINS (serving as Mayor pursuant to Charter Section 303) ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California
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