Item J16
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
TIME CERTAIN
,-
Meeting Date: April 18-19, 2001
Division:
BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes
No
Department:
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval to advertise an ordinance for public hearing providing for fWlding of Art in New Public
Cons1rUction and Major Renovations Projects.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Monroe COWlty fmds in the best interest of its citizens to increase public access to art, to promote
Wlderstanding and awareness of the visual arts and to enrich the public environment for residents and
visitors through the establishment of art in public places and an Arts in Public Places Committee,
which shall be an advisory body to the County Commission.
PREVIOUS REVELANT DOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
ST AFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Approval to advertise for public hearing on May 16,2001.
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNT PER MONTH
Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management_
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL: ~ ~ 'r-n, 1 L~ la...V
(Dixie M~har)
DOCUMENTATION:
Included X
To Follow
Not Required_
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM II /- J/&
Commissioner Dixie Spehar
ORDINANCE NO
- 2001
AN ORDINANCE CREATING SEC. 2-332(A), ,MONROE COUNTY CODE,
PROVIDING FOR FUNDING OF ART IN NEW PUBUC CONSTRUCTION AND
MAJOR RENOVATIONS PROJECTS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABIUTY;
PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT
HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATION INTO THE MONROE
COUNlY CODE OF ORDINANCES; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the County finds it in the best interest of its citizens to increase public access
to art; and
WHEREAS, the County desires to promote understanding and awareness of the visual arts
and to enrich the public environment for residents and visitors; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA,
Section 1.
Sec. 2-332(A) is hereby created to read as follows:
A. The Board of County Commissioners recognizes the extent of cultural
resources available in the County for development, promotion, and enjoyment of the
arts. It is the in tent of the County Commission by enacting this ordinance to
enrich culturally and benefit the citizens of this County through the establishment
of art in public places.
1) One percent (1'0) of the construction costs for County construction,
except for any sewage treatment plant, shall be set aside for the acquisition,
commission, installation and maintenance of works of art in said buildings. This
appropriation shall apply only to new construction exceeding $500,000 or
renovations exceeding $100,000 in cost.
a) Construction costs do not include architectural and
engineering fees, asbestos abatement or other environmental preparation,
site work, or contingency costs.
b) All construction costs to be used for determining the amount
of the art-in-public-places appropriation shall be calculated as of the date
the construction contract is executed.
c) Sewage treatment plants shall be exempt from mandatory
appropriations for art in public places.
2) The art-in-public-places appropriations and gifts, grants and
donations made to Monroe County for the purpose of acquiring and installing art in
public places shall be separately accounted for and may be used only for the
following purposes: to acquire, commission, install, or maintain art in public places.
Section 2. There is hereby established an Arts in Public Places Committee, which shall
be an advisory body to the County Commission. The Arts in Public Places Committee shall be
composed of five voting members and two non-voting members, and shall have the sole purpose of
reviewing responses to Requests for Proposals for art to be acquired aDd installed in each public
construction project subject to the Arts in Public Places set aside requirement.
Section 3. Each County Commissioner shall appoint one voting member whose term shall
run concurrently with the term of the appointing commissioner and who shall live or work in the
appointing commissioner's district. There shall be one voting member who is either a board
member or staff of the Monroe Council for the Arts Corporation. Each remaining voting member
must represent one or more of the following:
a) working artist;
b) art professional;
c) landscape architect or interior designer;
d) curator, or
e) general public.
Section 4. The County Administrator shall appoint to the committee the two non-voting
members on a project by project basis. The non-voting members shall be familiar with the project
through their position or contract as the architect, the building/project supervisor, or a similar
nexus to the project.
Section 5. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or provision of this ordinance is
held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance shall not be affected by such invalidity.
Section 6. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed to the extent of said conflict.
Section 7. The provisions of this ordinance shall be included and incorporated in the
Code of Ordinances of the County of Monroe, Florida, as an addition or amendment thereto, and
shall be appropriately renumbered to conform to the uniform numbering system of the Code.
Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon receipt of official notice
from the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Florida that this ordinance has been
filed with said Office.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida,
at a regular meeting of said Board held on the day of , 2001.
Mayor George Neugent
Commissioner Charles McCoy
Commissioner Murray Nelson
Commissioner Dixie Spehar
Commissioner Nora Williams
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L.KOLHAGE, Clerk
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
By
Deputy Clerk
Mayor/Chairperson
jcmrdartnbldg
APPROVED AS TO FORM
AND LEGAL SUFFIClE
./
BY
f' _~ TJ: