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Resolution to Approve Professional Services Agreement With Ed Carpenter to Design, Fabricate and Install Public Art for the Ann Arbor Justice Center Lobby ($150,000.00)
Memorandum
AAPAC requests your approval of a professional services agreement with Ed Carpenter, in the amount of $150,000.00, to design, fabricate and install public art for the Ann Arbor Justice Center. Ed Carpenter was selected as a result of his submission to a Request for Proposal. Funding to complete the project will come from Funds previously appropriated for public art within the Justice Center project budget. The art installation is intended for the southwest corner of the Justice Center lobby and will be suspended from the ceiling section designed for that purpose.
A Selection Panel reviewed artist qualifications and art proposals. The panel chose Ed Carpenter's art proposal as their recommendation for the public art project. A copy of his proposal is attached.
The Ann Arbor Public Art Commission approved the Selection Panel recommendation, and the artist, Ed Carpenter, on January 25, 2012.
Staff
Prepared by: Aaron Seagraves, Public Art Administrator
Reviewed by: Craig Hupy, P.E., Interim Public Services Administrator
Approved by: Steven D. Powers, City Administrator
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Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission continue to foster the development of culture and the arts in the city, and it is agreed that public art will improve the aesthetic quality of public spaces;
Whereas, The Justice Center and southwest corner of the lobby is a planned location for public art;
Whereas, Ed Carpenter was the selected artist for the art project; and
Whereas, Funding is available in the Justice Center project budget Art allocation.
RESOLVED, Council approve a Professional Services Agreement with Ed Carpenter in the amount of $150,000.00 for the design, fabrication, and installation of public art for the lobby areas of the Justice Center;
RESOLVED, That the Mayor and City Clerk be hereby authorized and directed to execute said professional Services agreement after approval as to form by the City Attorney and approval as to substance by the City Administrator;
RESOLVED, The Professional Services Agreement with Ed Carpenter and contingency be funded from the approved Justice Center project budget with funds to be available without regard to fiscal year; and
RESOLVED, That the City Administrator be authorized to take the necessary actions to implement this resolution.