HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-05-02; Arts Commission; ; REVIEW OF CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 2.18
Meeting Date: May 2, 2019
To: Carlsbad Arts Commission
From: Richard Schultz, Cultural Arts Manager
richard.schultz@carlsbadca.gov or 760-602-2086
Subject: Review of Carlsbad Municipal Code, Chapter 2.18
Recommended Action
No action needed.
Executive Summary
The Arts Commission will be asked to begin review of their ordinance and provide input for revision and
updating of the ordinance.
Discussion
Per the City Council, the Arts Commission has been asked to review its ordinance (Carlsbad Municipal
Code, Chapter 2.18) for revision and updating to reflect its current status and future work. With this first
review, Arts Commissioners will provide comments and suggestions to staff to begin revision of the
ordinance which will ultimately be presented to the City Council for review, comment and adoption at a
future date.
Fiscal Analysis
No additional city funding is being requested at this time.
Next Steps
Cultural Arts staff will compile all feedback and revise the ordinance for additional review at a future
meeting of the Arts Commission.
Public Notification and Outreach
This document was noticed in accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act (California Government Code
Section 54950 et. Seq.), published and distributed at least 72 hours prior to the meeting date and time.
Exhibits
None
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Sections:
2.18.010
2.18.020
2.18.030
2.18.040
2.18.050
2.18.060
2.18.070
2.18.080
2.18.090
2.18.100
2.18.110
2.18.120
2.18.130
Chapter 2.18
CARLSBAD ARTS COMMISSION
Created.
Purpose.
Membership-Terms-Vacancies.
Compensation.
Chair.
Meetings.
Staff liaison.
Duties.
Rules.
Powers generally.
Appropriations for arts.
Selection and placement of works of art.
Powers delegated to commission to be advisory.
2.18.010 Created.
A Carlsbad Arts Commission for the city is created. (Ord. CS-124 § 2, 2011)
2.18.020 Purpose.
2.18.010
The purpose of the Carlsbad Arts Commission is to advise the city council on arts and culture related mat-
ters and implementation of the arts element of the Carlsbad General Plan. (Ord. CS-268 § 1, 2015; Ord. CS-
124 § 3, 2011)
2.18.030 Membership-Terms-Vacancies.
The Carlsbad Arts Commission shall consist of seven members appointed by the mayor with the approval of
the city council. Of the members so appointed, three shall be for a term of three years, two shall be for a
term of two years and two shall be for a term of one year. Their successors shall be appointed for a term of
four years and be eligible for a second successive term. Members appointed to an unexpired term are eligi-
ble for two successive terms in addition to the unexpired term. Members shall be residents of the City of
Carlsbad. (Ord. CS-124 § 4, 2011)
2.18.040 Compensation.
The Carlsbad Arts Commission shall act without compensation. (Ord. CS-124 § 5, 2011)
2.18.050 Chair.
The members of the Carlsbad Arts Commission shall elect their own chair who shall preside at all meetings.
The chair shall hold office for a term of one year. Thereafter a new chair shall be elected at each succeeding
year. One chair may serve for more than one successive term. (Ord. CS-124 § 6, 2011)
2.18.060 Meetings.
The Carlsbad Arts Commission shall establish a regular time and place of meetings and shall hold not less
than one meeting per quarter. The majority of the appointed members shall constitute a quorum for the pur-
pose of transacting the business of the commission. (Ord. CS-124 § 7, 2011)
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2.18.070
2.18.070 Staff liaison.
The city manager shall appoint an employee of the city to act as staff liaison to the commission. (Ord. CS-
124 § 8, 2011)
2.18.080 Duties.
The Carlsbad Arts Commission shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of the commission, to make
recommendations to the city council on arts and culture related matters and advise it on the implementation
of the arts element of the general plan. (Ord. CS-268 § 2, 2015; Ord. CS-124 § 9, 2011)
2.18.090 Rules.
The commission may adopt its own rules and regulations. (Ord . CS-124 § 10, 2011)
2.18.100 Powers generally.
The Carlsbad Arts Commission shall have the power to:
A. Encourage and advocate for the arts.
B. Provide assistance and guidance to the cultural arts office regarding arts programming, public art and
arts-related educational programming.
C. Recommend to city council policies related to arts programming, public art and arts-related educational
programming.
D. Provide a forum for citizen concerns regarding art issues.
E. Assign members to serve on advisory committees related to arts programming, public art, arts-related
educational programming and arts-related ad hoc committees that may be established from time to
time. No more than three commissioners may serve on the same advisory or ad hoc committee at one
time. All ad hoc committees of the arts commission shall be open to the public and subject to "The
Brown Act," pursuant to Section 2.08.110 of this code.
F. Provide financial assistance whenever feasible to groups or individuals who provide public arts pro-
gramming to the citizens.
G. Recommend to city council the planning and development of new or augmented arts facilities as may
be needed.
H. Recommend to city council all works of art to be acquired by the city, either by purchase, gift or other-
wise, and their proposed locations.
I. Recommend to city council regarding the conservation , restoration, relocation or disposition of works of
art in the city's possession.
J. Determine a method or methods of recommending the selection and commissioning of artists with re-
spect to the design, execution and placement of works of art for which appropriations have been made,
and pursuant to such method or methods, recommend to the city council selection of artists by contract
for such purposes. (Ord. CS-124 § 11, 2011)
2.18.110 Appropriations for arts.
A. All city departments shall include in all estimates of necessary expenditures and all requests for au-
thorizations or appropriations for construction projects, an amount for works of art equal to at least one
percent of the total cost of any such construction project as estimated in the city's capital improvement
program for the year in which such estimate or request is made. If there are legal restrictions on the
sou rce of funding with respect to any particular project which precludes art as an object of expenditure
of funds, the amount of funds so restricted shall be excluded from the total project cost in making the
required estimate.
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2.18.120
B. The city council may make appropriations for works of art in connection with construction projects as
provided in this chapter.
C. Construction project means any of the following:
1. Construction, reconstruction, or renovation in excess of $500,000.00, involving any publicly
owned, leased, or operated facility including any plant, building, structure, utility system, real
property, streets and highways, or other public work improvement.
2. Street or streetscape improvement projects o_ther than street repair or reconstruction. In the case
of streetscape and right-of-way enhancement projects, streetscape means an improvement to a
public right-of-way, including a sidewalk, tree, light fixture, sign, and furniture. Some funding
sources (e.g., sources restricted to "transportation purposes" or "direct construction costs") may
prohibit formula-based expenditures for art. Thus, percent for art will not be collected from those
sources. However, city council may provide funding for public art for street or streetscape im-
provements from general fund revenues on a case by case basis.
3. In the case of a publicly owned utility system, capital improvement project shall include only the
construction, erection, improvement, of dams, reservoirs and power plants.
D. For the purposes of the art in public places program, capital improvement project does not mean any of
the following maintenance work:
1. Routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or protection of any publicly owned or
publicly operated facility (see Section 2.18.11 0(C)(1 )) for its intended purposes.
2. Resurfacing of streets and highways.
3. Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of
plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems.
4. Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain publicly owned water, power, or waste disposal
systems, including, but not limited to, dams, reservoirs, and power plants.
E. Annually, the administrative services department of the City of Carlsbad will verify the one percent for
public art allocation for all eligible GIP projects has been included in the budgeted amounts for city
counqil approval. As an alternative, where funding for eligible projects is restricted and cannot be used'
for public art, the council may appropriate percent for art funding from the general capital construction
fund or the general fund. The funds for art allocations may be used for projects located at the direct site
of the GIP project, or pooled for other future public art projects identified by the cultural arts manager
and Carlsbad Arts Commission. The park in lieu fee funded percent for art allocations must be used for
artwork at a park within the same quadrant where the fee was paid.
F. Any funds realized from the disposition of objects in the city's art in public places collection shall be
used for the benefit of the city's art in public places collection; specifically, for the purposes of acquir-
ing, restoring and refurbishing public art. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the city council shall
have the discretion to appropriate any funds realized from the disposition of objects in the city's art in
public places collection for other purposes. (Ord. CS-268 § 3, 2015; Ord. CS-124 § 12, 2011)
2.18.120 Selection and placement of works of art.
A. The selection of artists, commissioning of artworks, acceptance of donated artworks, and placement of
works of art shall be governed by the art in public places program as developed and adopted by the
Carlsbad Arts Commission and city council.
B. The arts commission shall further have the power to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations per-
taining to the art in public places program. (Ord. CS-268 § 4, 2015; Ord. CS-124 § 13, 2011)
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2.18.130
2.18.130 Powers delegated to commission to be advisory.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting any of the powers of the city council, or as a delega-
tion of the Carlsbad Arts Commission of any of the authority or discretionary powers vested and imposed by
law in the city council. The city council declares that the public interest requires the appointment of a Carls-
bad Arts Commission to act in a purely advisory capacity to the city council for the purposes enumerated.
Any power herein delegated to the commission to adopt rules and regulations shall not be construed as a
delegation of legislative authority but purely a delegation of administrative authority. (Ord. CS-124 § 14,
2011)
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ORDINANCE NO. CS-268
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING TITLE 2 OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE, MODIFYING
THE CARLSBAD ARTS COMMISSION ORDINANCE, CHAPTER 2.18
SECTION 1: Title 2, Chapter 2.18.020 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended to read
as follows:
2.18.020 Purpose.
The purpose of the Carlsbad Arts Commission is to advise the city council on arts and
culture related matters and implementation of the arts element of the Carlsbad General
Plan.
SECTION 2: Title 2, Chapter 2.18.080 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended to read
as follows:
2.18.080 Duties.
The Carlsbad Arts Commission shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of the
Commission, to make recommendations to the city council on arts and culture related
matters and advise it on the implementation of the arts element of the general plan.
SECTION 3 Title 2, Chapter 2.18.110 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended to read
as follows:
2.18.110 Appropriations for arts.
(a) All city departments shall include in all estimates of necessary expenditures and all
requests for authorizations or appropriations for construction projects, an amount for
works of art equal to at least one percent of the total cost of any such construction project
as estimated in the city's capital improvement program for the year in which such estimate
or request is made. If there are legal restrictions on the source of funding with respect to
any particular project which precludes art as an object of expenditure of funds, the amount
of funds so restricted shall be excluded from the total project cost in making the required
estimate.
(b) The city council may make appropriations for works of art in connection with
construction projects as provided in this chapter
(c) Construction project means any of the following:
(1) Construction, reconstruction, or renovation in excess of $500,000, involving any
publicly owned, leased, or operated facility including any plant, building, structure,
utility system, real property, streets and highways, or other public work
improvement.
(2) Street or streetscape improvement projects other than street repair or
reconstruction. In the case of streetscape and right-of-way enhancement projects,
streetscape means an improvement to a public right-of-way, including a sidewalk,
tree, light fixture, sign, and furniture. Some funding sources (e.g., sources
restricted to "transportation purposes" or "direct construction costs") may prohibit
formula-based expenditures for art. Thus, percent for art will not be collected from
those sources. However, City Council may provide funding for public art for street
or streetscape improvements from general fund revenues on a case by case basis.
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(3) In the case of a publicly owned utility system, capital improvement project shall
include only the construction, erection, improvement, of dams, reservoirs and
power plants.
(d) For the purposes of the Art in Public Places Program, Capital Improvement Project
does not mean any of the following maintenance work:
(1) Routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or protection of any publicly
owned or publicly operated facility (see 2.18.110 b-1) for its intended purposes.
(2) Resurfacing of streets and highways.
(3) Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting,
replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems.
(4) Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain publicly owned water, power, or
waste disposal systems, including, but not limited to, dams, reservoirs, and power
plants.
(e) Annually, the Administrative Services Department of the City of Carlsbad will verify the
one percent for public art allocation for all eligible CIP projects has been included in the
budgeted amounts for City Council approval. As an alternative, where funding for eligible
projects is restricted and cannot be used for public art, the Council may appropriate
percent for art funding from the General Capital Construction Fund or the General Fund.
The funds for art allocations may be used for projects located at the direct site of the CIP
project, or pooled for other future public art projects identified by the cultural arts manager
and Carlsbad Arts Commission. The park in lieu fee funded percent for art allocations
must be used for artwork at a park within the same quadrant where the fee was paid.
(f) Any funds realized from the disposition of objects in the city's art in public places
collection shall be used for the benefit of the city's art in public places collection;
specifically, for the purposes of acquiring, restoring and refurbishing public art.
Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the city council shall have the discretion to
appropriate any funds realized from the disposition of objects in the city's art in public
places collection for other purposes.
SECTION 4 Title 2, Chapter 2.18.120 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended to read
as follows:
2.18.120 Selection and placement of works of art.
(a) The selection of artists, commissioning of artworks, acceptance of donated artworks,
and placement of works of art shall be governed by the Art in Public Places Program as
developed and adopted by the Carlsbad Arts Commission and City Council.
(b)The Arts Commission shall further have the power to promulgate and adopt rules and
regulations pertaining to the Art in Public Places Program.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty days after its
adoption; and the city clerk shall certify the adoption of this ordinance and cause the full text
of the ordinance or a summary of the ordinance prepared by the City Attorney to be
published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Carlsbad within
fifteen days after its adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
Council on the 24th day of February, 2015, and thereafter
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of Carlsbad on the 24th day of March, 2015, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Members Hall, Blackburn, Schumacher, Wood,
Packard
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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MA TT HALL, Mayor
ATTEST: