ATTACHMENT 7

MEMORANDUM

TO:	Mayor and Town Council
FROM:	Terry Blalock, Chair, Parks and Recreation Commission
SUBJECT:	Draft Chapel Hill Public Art Contextual Plan
DATE:	November 15, 2006

The Commission voted unanimously (8-0) to recommend that the Council adopt the Draft Chapel Hill Public Art Contextual Plan with the following changes:

• The Commission believes that each Town capital project should have a project specific art component that is based on an identified need and not on a fixed percent of project budget. If this concept were adopted budgets for art would be created separately based on need and then included as a line in the project budget.
• Small private developments should be exempt from contribution to community art.
• Several line items in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) such as Small Parks Improvement are consistently used for on-going maintenance, not enhancements. The Commission believes these line items should be exempt from the percent for art process.
• The Plan should promote the concept of a year round art education component that would include collaboration between the Parks and Recreation Department and the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission.

Present: Terry Blalock, Chair; Faith Nager, Vice-Chair; Betsey Anderson; Neal Bench; Bob Broad; Cory Brooks; Diane VandenBroek; and Andre Wesson.

Absent: Eugene Farrar; Pete Schwartz; and Joan Guilkey.