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CITY OF SAN MATEO
RESOLUTION NO. ____ (2023)
APPROVING A BUDGET APPROPRIATION FOR THE FALLEN HEROES MEMORIAL ARTWORK FABRICATION WHEREAS, the "Art in Public Places Fund" must be used for the acquisition, installation, improvement, and maintenance of artwork to be displayed in the City, and the administration of the Art in Public Places Program; and
WHEREAS, the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of San Mateo is constructing a Fallen Heroes Memorial depicting a Remembrance Poppy at the direction of the City Council as part of the implementation of the Central Park Master Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Parks and Recreation Department submitted the Remembrance Poppy to the Civic Arts Committee for consideration as artwork for the Arts in Public Place Program, and the Civic Art Committee approved the artwork; and
WHEREAS, the Civic Arts Committee approved the recommendation of the budget appropriation at their November 13, 2023 meeting for the fabrication of the poppy artwork.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, HEREBY FINDS AND RESOLVES that:
1. This budget appropriation is not a project subject to CEQA because it is an organization or administrative activity that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. (CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5)). The Fallen Heroes Memorial sitework is categorically exempt from CEQA as an “existing facility,” because it consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use (CEQA Guidelines Section 15301) and because it consists of construction and location of limited numbers of new, small facilities or structures; installation of small new equipment and facilities in small structures; and the conversion of existing small structures from one use to another where only minor modifications are made in the exterior of the structure. (CEQA Guidelines Section 15303.)
2. The appropriation of $103,400 from the Art in Public Places Fund to the Parks and Recreation Capital Improvement Project Central Park 610027, for the fabrication of the Fallen Heroes Memorial artwork is approved.