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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND The Dublin Fine Arts Foundation is taking the lead in promoting a project entitled "Art Takes Place," a year-long public art project for the Tri-Valley area. Goals for the project would include promoting public awareness and participation in the arts; providing opportunities for multi generational groups, including youth, to be involved in the arts; and articulating the diversity and unique qualities of people and the environment. The activities of the project would culminate in a large format book describing the project in relationship to the history and environment of the Tri- Valley. The project is envisioned as a series of temporary public art projects sited in Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore. The exact nature and form of the art would evolve through a development process involving a Steering Committee comprised of representatives from each participating city. The proposed budget for the project is $250,000, with each city requested to commit $30,000. In the case of Pleasanton, these funds would be allocated from the Public Art Acquisition Fund, if the Council agrees to participate. Additional funds are expected to be raised from private and foundation sources through the efforts of the Dublin Fine Arts Foundation. At the Civic Arts Commission's June 5, 2006 meeting, representatives of the Dublin Fine Arts Foundation presented information about the proposed project. Marty Inderbitzen, President of the Dublin Fine Arts Foundation, also addressed the Commission and outlined the goals and intentions of the project. Commissioners expressed gencral support for thc concept, but did express some concerns. These included the need for more specificity; the impcnding review of the Downtown Public Art Mastcr Plan (which recommends a number of publicly funded public art projccts); and the need to present the City Council with some concrcte proposals for the potcntial art projccts. Thc Commission appointcd Commissioncrs Nancy Scotto and Howard Seebach to mect with representatives from Dublin and Livcrmorc, which will ultimately constitute the projcct's Steering Committee. Thc goal was to work together to develop consensus as to the parameters of the project and identify with more specificity possible themes, approaches, and projccts. A mccting was held at Dublin City Hall on Junc 20, 2006, with reprcscntativcs from Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and the Dublin Fine Arts Foundation to further develop guidelines, thcmcs, and possiblc projects which might cmanatc from thc proposcd collaboration. Attachment I reflects the conscnsus that was dcveloped during that mecting. The Civic Arts Commission, at its mccting on July 10, 2006, rcvicwcd thc rcviscd project description, heard reports from Commissioners Scotto and Seebach, and discusscd the project again with representatives of the Dublin Fine Arts Foundation. Thc Commissioncrs expressed support for SR 06:200 Page 2