Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 01/09/2025

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the creation of a public art fund, and public/private partnerships that leverage public money with private funds.Additional methods of raising private funds through required developer contributions or a nonprofit fundraising body have also been employed by local governments.These options may be more suitable for locations where it is not feasible for public funds to be allocated to public art. Site Selection Site selection is recommended to be part of any public art master plan and it was included in all ten plans reviewed. From reviewing the plans,two approaches are generally taken for site selection. First, broad community identification can be done where neighborhoods and geographic regions that may be well-suited for public art are identified. For example, a focus may be put on public art in a downtown area.This can, and was in many master plans, refined further with the second method of identifying sites, which is specifying individual public sites. Following the previous example,this would identify a specific park or public site in the downtown area.These specific sites could be public parks, as used in the example, or other civic gathering places and publically accessible areas, such as pavilions, pedestrian malls, or areas adjacent to public buildings. Cartiere (2009) discusses the inclusion of public art in light-rail transit systems sites, concluding"utilizing place-specificity serves as a means to highlight, preserve and present the unique social aspects of a specific location — the history, memories, stories, uses, people, nature — which might otherwise have been displaced by transit development, urban sprawl or general neglect."The common practice for this component is to give the responsibility of site identification to the public art review authority. This authority was found to be charged with evaluating sites and creating priorities based on criteria including: public access, visibility, ability to create a sense of community, historical significance, public safety, engineering concerns, and other factors that may be locally relevant. 23