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<br />A DRAFT RESOLUTION DEFINING A PERCENT FOR PUBLIC ART PROGRAM AND <br />THE GENERAL POLICIES OF THE PROGRAM FOR ORANGE COUNTY <br />WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) supports the arts in Orange County by <br />continued funding of the Arts Commission, including the recent increase to a full-time staff position; and <br />WHEREAS, on October 1, 200.3, the Board of County Commissioners included county funding <br />for a Public Art Program at the Homestead Aquatics Center and Southern Community Park; and <br />WHEREAS, at the BOCC's suggestion, the Orange County Arts Commission and the Chapel Hill Public <br />Arts Commission are working together to commission artwork for these two new city/county projects; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County <br />that the BOCC hereby establishes a Percent for Public Art Program for Orange County: <br />to help define the county's identity and sense of place, <br />to promote social interaction and discourse, <br />to bring the arts into everyday life and <br />to memorialize the past while expressing shared values for the future, <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the program shall be guided by the following <br />policies: <br />1. Program Objective: To provide art accessible to the public and to the users of County <br />buildings and parks, for the improvement of the quality of life in Orange County, and <br />more specifically to: <br />• help define the county's identity and sense of'place, <br />• promote social interaction and discourse, <br />• bring the arts into everyday life and <br />• memorialize the past while expressing shared values for the future. <br />2. Annual Public Art Plan: The BOCC shall meet at least annually to consider a Public Art Plan <br />recommended by the Orange County Arts Commission. The recommended Public Art Plan <br />shall include: <br />a. Those capital projects which will include I% of their project budgets for <br />public art <br />b. The distinction between those capital projects which will include public art <br />on-site and which should contribute 1% of their budget to a pool of funds <br />reserved for public art commission, acquisition, maintenance and conservation <br />c. General location(s) for the art not recommended for the site of a capital project. <br />d. The BOCC shall decide on which capital budgets shall include 1 % for <br />art and the general site(s) ofthe art, and shall appropriate funds. This set of <br />decisions shall be known as the Public Art Plan for the given year.. <br />