Meeting_Body
SYSTEM SAFETY, SECURITY AND OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Subject/Action
SUBJECT: METRO PUBLIC ART ANNUAL REPORT
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE first annual report on the state of Metro's public artworks in response to the Board Motion, Item 44 from the October 2015 System Safety, Security and Operations Committee.
Issue
ISSUE
At the October 2015 meeting, the Metro Board directed staff in Board Motion Item 44 (Attachment A) to provide an annual report on the state of Metro's public artworks starting in February 2016. Additionally, staff was directed to: beginning with the FY17 budget, dedicate a reasonable amount of funds towards maintenance and/or restoration of Metro's public artworks, include conservation and/or restoration of existing Metro public artworks in all future line, station, and facility refurbishment projects, budget additional funds as needed for maintenance of new Metro public artworks, such as artwork on the Expo Line Phase 2 and Gold Line Foothill extensions, create a regular maintenance plan for each Metro artwork, develop an action plan to restore artworks that are not functioning as intended, including consideration of using remaining Blue Line Upgrades Project funding for the restoration of artwork altered by that Project. Attachment A contains the October Board directive. This report provides the first annual report and responds to the directed items.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
In October 2015, staff provided an initial inventory and assessment of all artworks in the Metro system, noting those which were known to not be functioning as intended at that time. In November 2015, staff provided a memo to the Board updating the assessment and providing an initial corrective action plan. This will be an evolving effort as artworks are added to the inventory and action plans are implemented. Some artworks are now approaching their 25th year and, ...
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