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A RESOLUTION DEFINING A PERCENT FOR PUBLIC ART PROGRAM AND THE GENERAL POLICIES OF THE PROGRAM (2002-03-04/R-8) WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan of the Town of Chapel Hill includes public art as part of the section on Community Character; and WHEREAS, the Town Council has included a Percent for Public Art Program in the short-term implementation measures adopted on July 5, 2000; and WHEREAS, the Public Arts Commission and its subgroups have been working with the Town staff to develop policies and procedures for a Percent for Public Art Program; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Council hereby establishes a Percent for Public Art Program: to help define the community's identity and sense of place, to promote social interaction and discourse, to bring the arts into everyday life and to memorialize the past while expressing shared values for the future. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the program shall be guided by the following policies: 1. Program Objective: To provide art accessible to the public and to the users of Town buildings and parks, for the improvement of the quality of life in Chapel Hill, and more specifically to: • help define the community's identity and sense of place, • promote social interaction and discourse, • bring the arts into everyday life and • memorialize the past while expressing shared values for the future. 2. Annual Public Art Plan: The Town Council shall meet at least annually to consider a Public Art Plan recommended by the Public Arts Commission. The recommended Public Art Plan shall include: a. Those capital projects which should include 1 % of their project budgets for public art b. The distinction between those capital projects which should include public art on-site and which should contribute 1 % of their budget to a pool of funds reserved for public art commission, acquisition, maintenance and conservation c. General location(s) for the art not recommended for the site of a capital project. d. The Town Council shall decide on which capital budgets shall include 1 % for art and the general site(s) of the art, and shall appropriate funds. This set of decisions shall be known as the Public Art Plan for the given year.