To: PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
From: CAMERON HARDING, COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR
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RECEIVE AND FILE A PRESENTATION ON PROPOSED PUBLIC ARTWORK FOR THE TRANSIT CENTER
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON A RECOMMENDATION TO ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM THE JOHN PARSONS PUBLIC ART FUND TO THE TRANSIT CENTER PUBLIC ARTWORK PROJECT
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RECOMMENDATION
Discussion and possible action on a recommendation to allocate additional funding in an amount not to exceed $100,000 from the John Parsons Public Art Fund to the Transit Center public artwork project...title
BACKGROUND
The City's new Transit Center is under construction at Kingsdale Avenue, adjacent to the Target retail store and across the street from the South Bay Galleria and South Bay Marketplace. The project was originally approved in Fiscal Year 2004-05 at a projected budget of $5,460,000. Due to a number of land, budget, planning, and external factors, the project was delayed. The fifteen-year delay and valuation at today's dollars caused the project budget to be realized at $12,237,439. Construction is expected to be completed by January 2022, with transit services operating at the new location by February 2022.
The Transit Center is partially funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and as part of the FTA's funding guidance, the inclusion of public art was encouraged and separately funded with dedicated Proposition A Local Return Transit Funds at $75,000. With the Transit funding, a systematic process of request for qualifications (RFQ) and request for proposals (RFP) for public art was undertaken by the Public Art Commission to identify potential public art for inclusion at the site of the transit center project. Ultimately, on April 19, 2011, the City Council unanimously approved a proposal by Volkan Alkanoglu for the public artwork "Gatewave" and a project budget of $75,000.
At the time of selection, Mr. Alkanoglu was in residence in Los Angeles and was teaching at Los A...
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