HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-CLC-2019-09-16 Date: September 16,2019
Time: 6:00 PM
Wok Location: 2nd Floor Conference Room,
COMMUNITY LIFE City Hall
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COMMISSION MINUTES
PRESENT: Chair Swayze
Commissioners (5): Keeler, Scriber, Hillson, Byrne & Scriber
OTHERS PRESENT: Executive Assistant Hallett-Harris
ABSENT: Hagood & Bakhle
EXCUSED: Common Council Liaisons: Lewis & Fleming and Das
Meeting called to order: 6:07 p.m.
Review and Approval of Minutes: August 19, 2019 Minutes: 1st Hillson and Byrne 2nd
— Scriber Abstained from vote - all in favor - Minutes approved
Public Art:
Alexander Phillips, Planner, City of Ithaca Office of Planning and Development The Tompkins Giant Project Update, Anthropocene Sculpture & Ithaca Moves
Proiect Introduction:
Alex passed out handouts regarding Community Arts Partnership Call for Artist Ithaca
Moves and two maps.
Ithaca Moves: Community Arts Partnerships (CAP) has secured funding and the City
will be providing support. Currently there is an open RFQ and 9/20 is deadline, this
went out in August. Alex went over the project description and artwork to RFQ jury
committee to decide. Members of the RFQ Jury: Jackie Richardson art school teacher,
John Spence from CAP, Hector Chang Bike walk Tompkins, Davra Ripkin who was a
champion from Bike Walk Tompkins, Tara Escadara from RIBS, John Jensen of the
Parks Foundation and Fabina Colon from the Multicultural Center. He has also reached
out Jay Stooks from GIAC and Norma Cateras from Cornell Cooperative Extension to
be on the jury as well. The jury will meet twice, 2 weeks after the deadline and Alex
reviewed what will happen at these two meetings in detail. This will include identifying
the stakeholders; responsibilities of artist; structure will be defined; criteria of
qualifications and intro of proposals to the jury. Jury will send scores to Alex and then
the scores will be narrowed by 3 points. The jury will have the final list and then have
conversation/discussion and move to steering committee, which is still not defined.
There is $26,000 for artist, other funds for foundation, outreach, etc., the total amount of
$30,000.
Questions: What is CLC role?
After the steering committee, they will be recording the jury notes and commentary from
steering committee and the final proposal will have final process. He covered 5
categories, their interpretation and clarity of their letter of interest, creativity and
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originality of their previous works, how many previous works they've had, the quality of
their works, overall impression of the application and the durability of their work, since
we don't have maintenance fund, that this will last. Opinion of the five items that Alex to
give to the jury? CLC stated that safety should be considered as well as durability and
Alex to add this with the durability language. The potential site is the Waterfront Trail, if
access the bike network, most continuous path along Cayuga Waterfront meets Black
Diamond Trail.
Tompkins Giant— At the last meeting a request for public circulation was made and
approved and that has not happened yet as the site was identified about a week ago.
The handout that was given of Cass Park and it is just south of the Dragon Boat launch
and also called Linderman Creek. He met with Jim D'Alterio and Jeanne Grace and
they went out and looked at site. They do not have funds for the concrete foundation
and the new piece is to get recommendation from CLC to send to Board of Public
Works requesting them to give approval to put artwork in a public park. Motion made to
recommend this to DPW as the site at Cass Park for put artwork in a public park. There
were questions regarding other sites looked at for this project and the other places
looked at for the Ithaca Moves project possible. Motion was made to recommend to
Board of Public Works requesting permission to install artwork in a public park — CLC
approved the Tompkins Giant sculpture in a public park— Hillson 1st and Keeler 2nd — all
in favor.
Anthropocene Sculpture —Alex made request for public circulation for this proposal to
be placed on Baker Park on Old Elmira Road and is shown on map handout given. This
is a "quasi" sculpture, would be temporary, would have no maintenance for this
sculpture and would be a learning instrument for classes at CU as well as other schools
and interaction from community/public. The sculpture will have a marker to go website
to see more information and will be made out of old car parts. All edges will be safe for
public. This hasn't been made yet and other sites have been looked at but not on
Cayuga Waterfront Trail wanted it to be more accessible to all different communities.
This will have solar lights nested into it, not external, and will be casting down and
creating a halo like effect at night. The artist is Monica Franciscus. Motion was made
for CLC recommend this Anthropocene Sculpture and location be submitted for public
circulation — Hillson 1st and 2nd Keeler— all in favor; Motion made for recommendation to
the Board of Public Works for art in public park. Hillson 1st and Keeler 2nd Motion — all in
favor.
Swayze stated she forwarded the language for the art budget line to the Mayo. Dan
Cogan said that 2020 is shaping up to be very difficult.
Public Art Funding:
Keeler—filling out the paperwork for the art funding project research and putting
together a working group. Keeler read out loud the Public Art Funding wording to
members. Working group members in terms of diversity, background, diversity,
neighborhoods, etc., just to know them a bit better: 2 men, 6 women, there are women
of color, also new Director from Historic Ithaca, also former Public Arts Commission
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Member; a very diverse group and potential advisors as well. Motion was made to
create this working group for public art funding — Scriber 1st and Byrne 2nd — all in favor.
Cornell Contributions Follow Up:
Keeler met with Gary Stewart from Cornell University who was very nice. Keeler let
Gary know that we were talking about the MOU. Gary gave a printed list of what CU
does. Gary was open to coming and meeting when time is right; he has a podcast he
does about town/gown relations, inclusiveness, equity, etc. This working group could
dig in with town/gown relations and use their own set up here on the list we were given
to compare to others and check out archived interviews on the podcast—the podcast is
All Things Equal.
Swayze, Hillson & Byrne have met and are working on plan form which is not complete
yet. Byrne she read out loud the proposed language on the form. The working
group/research including communicating with Fire department, updating 2014 reports
comparisons with other schools/colleges set within a city/town or more separate and
what other colleges are like that. Princeton comparisons of non-tax and taxed colleges
and Ivy League schools and the community size too. We also need to bring in voices of
impacts on community, interviews/stories lack of funding and how it impacts the
community. Finish working plan on the form for next meeting and who to be on this
working group? Ask the Mayor who his recommendations are or who should be
involved? Who should be on the working group, who wants to do research/work, firm
up goals and get a time line. Possibly going through City to see the actual numbers and
what the City is actually spending regarding CU?
CLC Shopping Carts:
Scriber & Bakhle — Bakhle created a draft report to give to Common Council and
emailed it earlier today. Chair, Bakhle and Scriber will be working on finalizing this.
Discussion regarding the impacts of certain housing at Titus Towers and other areas.
Willing to come up with viable solutions like creating a coral at these places and
possibly having community service persons picking them up from corals, etc. Finalize
the report and needs to go to them by the Common Council's October meeting. Is there
a way to fill in the new Working Project Plan Form? Chair to check on the electronic
version of the form.
7:36 pm Adjourned
Next Meeting:
Monday, October 21, 2019, 6:00 p.m., Common Council Chambers, 3rd Floor
Adjournment:
On a motion, the meeting was adjourned at 7:36 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted by,
Jody Hallett-Harris, Executive Assistant
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ART, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL VISION
In the perceptual rendering of human experience and thought, art both reflects
social existence, and asserts the possibility for transforming social existence.Art's capacity
for transformative perception holds potential for enriching social science, given society's
inability to resolve its twin existential dilemmas, namely growing economic inequality and
escalating climate change.Any practical solution to either of these dilemmas depends upon
social transformation. This, in turn, depends upon people's capacity to envision
transformation and its rationale, as well as the final result. Positive social transformation is
possible to the extent that leaders, along with a significant number of people,hold fast to a
clear vision of what needs to change and how a new society can come about.
Social transformation is presently underway due to innovations in science and
technology, giving humanity the opportunity to consciously shape its own future.This
proposition is evident when examining rates of change over the past 50 years (Ford 2014;
Green 2019; Kaku 1998). Since their invention in the 1960s, microprocessors have grown
in processing power exponentially, as has scientific knowledge. This suggests that future
economic, social and political structures will be organized around qualitatively different
logic, and that the character of this difference will be determined by what people do.
Our proposed multidisciplinary collaboration is between an artist and a social
scientist. It deploys a sculpture to inspire and organize thinking on the present state of the
world (economically and ecologically), and to imagine future possibilities about what can
and should be. The proposed sculpture "Anthropocene" will be placed on Cornell campus
and is a large hollow circle, 12' high, comprised of industrial relics,trashed car parts,
crushed and welded to an interior frame. The colors of the parts illustrate climate
temperature zone; chrome bumpers at the top and bottom represent the Arctic/Antarctic,
the adjacent level made from green and yellow parts corresponding to bodies of water and
plant life, and the equator region is red and orange corresponding to the warmer equatorial
region. Solar lights are affixed within the crushed parts, illuminating the structure at night,
mimicking earth's solar halo on its dark side, and symbolizing'sustainability.'
The round form illustrates unity and our shared space on earth; cause and effect.
The meaning is: what goes around comes around. Industrial fossil fuels are the largest
source of greenhouse gasses, and automobiles symbolize the destructive use of industrial
era technology for private profit.At earlier stages of development,the auto industry
provided mass industrial employment. Cars were a symbol of social status and seeming
efficiency. Humanity now has the technological capacity to build electric cars, and more
broadly,to establish new sets of relationships that address the public purpose for planetary
balance benefitting from the ever-evolving tools of science.
Description of activity/project
The sculpture is designed by artist Monica Franciscus (2019) and built in
collaboration with a team of welders and contractors.Taitem Engineering (2019) has
provided stamped structural drawings
Viewers may interact directly with the Anthropocene sculpture by walking through
it; it is slightly sunk into the ground. There will be a plaque nearby with a website address
where the public can partake in a questionnaire, and offer commentary. The website will
feature the project rationale, and a blog.
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Several separate audiences will engage with the sculpture. First, Cornell scientists,
among the architects of the ongoing scientific revolution,will be interviewed for their take
on the present global economic and ecological crises and possible solutions. Second,the
sculpture will engage local residents whose feedback is particularly interesting given that
Ithaca is within the "rust belt region"which has been deindustrializing since the 1970s. The
proposal is integrated with a large undergraduate class (DSoc 1101; taught by the principal
investigator) to experiment with the sculpture as a component of the curriculum. The
students will conduct interviews (a Human Subjects IRB application is currently under
review). The artist will approach elementary, middle and high schools to conduct
workshops about the sculpture, to discuss art and society and how materials in the
sculpture convey social concepts.
Visitors will be encouraged to leave comments on the website, and a set of self-
selected DSoc 1101 students will analyze these comments and the questionnaire, and
respond to a set of four structured questions, and the responses posted to a research blog.
These students will have substituted their final examination for work on the sculpture
research, namely interviewing scientists, analyzing the survey data and posting findings to
a class sponsored research blog.
The artist will respond to the students' posts, and the principal investigator will
utilize these interactions to facilitate a two-way dialogue between social science concepts
and art.The boundaries of each discipline will be explored, and forms of fruitful interaction
identified.
This project aims to:
1) Illustrate and conceptualize the frontier between art and social science, and possibilities
for stimulating and inspiring awareness and efforts toward social transformation; 2)
determine the extent that citizens' and scientists' conceptualization fit real possibilities for
sustainable and equitable development under the options presented by current
technological means and scientific trends; 3) estimate how scientists and citizens define
and understand the conceptual interrelationships between sustainability, inequality,
science and technology, and the extent that the sculpture assists in furthering this
understanding.
References
Ford, M. (2015). The rise of the robots: Technology and threat of a jobless future. New York:
Basic Books.
Franciscus, Monica. (2019).Art by Monica Franciscus,www.artbymf.com.
Green, M.A. (2019). "How did solar cells get so cheap?"Joule 3:631-33.
Kaku, M. (1998). Visions:How science will revolutionize the 21st Century. New York: Dell.
Taitem Engineering. (2019). Anthropocene sculpture, Cornell University. (Electronic file,
architectural drawing,www.taitem.com).
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CITY OF ITHACA
City Commissions
Date 411712019
ASSIGNED COMMISSION Public Safety and Information Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources
Community Life Mobility, Accessibility and Transportation
REPORT UP TO Ctty Administration Committee -Planning and Economic Development Committee
Mayor -Common Council d City Staff (specify): Jeanne Grace
1 - Project Title, Description and Background
Shopping Cart Ordinance Update
Residents (particularly downtown) have identified abandoned shopping carts as a blight to
neighborhood aesthetics, a hazard to the public, and an obstruction to pedestrian and vehicular
traffic. City staff finds the current ordinance time-consuming to enforce and ineffective. We have
proposed ordinances changes and have received initial feedback from retailers. Council would like a
well -researched and well -vetted recommendation for updates to the existing ordinance.
2. Project Deliverables
I/ Research the topic and provide a summary report on your findings. Include any recommendations along with reasons
for the recommendations. (Requires a vote of the commission) -
Review a program, process or legislation from Council and provide feedback on the pros and cons. Report back
should indicate whether the commission supports the program, does not support the program, or is neutral, along with the
reasons why, (Requires a vote of the commission)
Arrange for a public presentation on the topic, gather feedback, solicit questions, and synthesize feedback in a
findings report, (Vote of commission not required)
- Gather feedback from retailers on the proposed ordinance change
- Gather feedback from people most likely to take shopping carts and/or the organizations that work
with them
- Propose a change in legislation (likely based off draft already presented to City Administration)
- Propose ways to mitigate the impact on populations who need ways to transport their groceries
3. City Staff Participation
City Forester Jeanne Grace and her crew are responsible for picking up abandoned shopping
carts when they're unable to perform other work. Jeanne can provide insight into the shortcomings
and issues with the current shopping cart ordinance and what her preferred solutions would be.
4. Resources/Materials
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Alderperson Nguyen presented a draft of a new shopping cart ordinance to the City Administration
Committee, sent letters summarizing the changes to retailers known to have significant shopping
cart inventories, and has feedback from two of those retailers. The Twitter account @ithacascenery
documents abandoned shopping carts around the city.
5. Other Stakeholders or Community Partners
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Ithaca Housing Authority operates Titus Towers, which houses one of the largest collections of
shopping carts in Ithaca outside of a retailer. Their residents have a clear need for ways to transport
their groceries.
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The Tompkins Giant Project
Sculpture title: Gromely
Artist: Jarod Charzewski
Contact info: Jarodcharzewski hotmail.com
Cell: 612-701-4883
The Tompkins Giant Project has inspired me to create something grand in scale and visually fantastic.
Something that will be a landmark for the town of Ithaca NY that will inspire its residence as well as its
visitors for years to come. Gromely is the name of the figure I have designed. It encapsulates aspects of
the original story of the Tompkins Giant as well it fosters a sense of fantasy and wonder.
Drawings
The towering sculpture stands a full 20 feet tall. The piece is designed with an armature or skeleton of
steel tubing that will be bolted together on site. In keeping with the conceptual thread of my portfolio
the outer layer would be made mostly of recycled steel tubing with sizes ranging from 1, 2 and 4-inch
square and welded together. This material was chosen for its durability in the natural elements. This will
provide a maintenance free public sculpture long into the future. Each piece of the outer layer would
have a patina that would create a spectrum of natural colors to blend with fall colors of the region. The
entire piece will be sprayed in a clear finish to ensure a lasting protective coat.
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Like all my public work consultation with a structural engineer would take place. This would provide a
credible method of construction of the steel tubes as well as the foundation. The piece would be built
entirely in my studio space at the College of Charleston. There I have ample space and equipment to
build the piece as well as plenty of assistance to help stay on schedule. I would transport the sculpture
to Ithaca in pieces and assemble it in place. The piece would require a reinforced concrete slab be
poured in place. There would be nothing unique about the slab and can be poured by any local
contractor.
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The piece will be constructed on a 4" square x 1/4" steel
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The armature would be anchored to the slab using ASTM F1554 10"x 5/8" hot dipped galvanized
threaded rod. The rods would befastened tothe slab with aHi|tiHY-Hit 200Ainjectable adhesiveoras
prescribed byrnystructural engineer. | have used this system for much heavier loads inthe past and
always had great success.
Budget
Fabrication expenses $1200.00
New steel tubing for armature $2100.00
Recycled steel tubing for outer layer $1800.00
Patina $250.00
Clear coat sealer $420.00
Installation expenses $450.00
Fabrication assistance $2700.00
Shipping $3300.00
Personal Travel $350.00
Accommodations on site for 5 nights $400.00
Artist fee $5030.00
Total $18000.00
Site preparation
The piece would require a minimum 16'x14'x6" reinforced concrete slab. This would need to be poured
7 days before my arrival. The cost of the slab would be between $3500.00 and $4000.00. 1 would need
two able volunteers to help assemble the piece. I would require a JLG Telescopic Boom Lift rented for
duration of the install. On site assembly would take between 2 and 4 days.
Time frame
Late June - consult with my structural engineer
July 1st - begin fabrication
Mid -September - complete fabrication
Late September — ship to Ithaca NY
Early October — 4 days to install - project complete
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