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Leesburg council moves Arts & Cultural District banner designs to consent agenda
Summary
Council heard a presentation from staff and the Commission on Public Art on replacement banner designs for the Arts & Cultural District and agreed to move approval to the consent agenda for the next meeting.
Leah Cozen, the town’s assistant public information officer and staff liaison to the Commission on Public Art, told the Leesburg Town Council that the Commission had selected 14 new designs to replace faded banners in the town’s Arts & Cultural District and asked the council to approve the designs.
The banners mark the district shown in the council’s map materials; the Commission on Public Art (COPA) requested the original banners in 2021. Cozen said the original 24-by-12 portrait banners created by Stilson Green have faded and that COPA issued a new call to artists that produced 52 submissions, from which the commission selected 14 images to replace the existing banners.
Cozen explained the installation plan and ownership of light poles: blue dots on the council’s map indicate poles owned by Dominion Power; green and orange dots indicate town-owned poles (orange identified as future installations); purple dots indicate private property and red dots indicate Dominion-owned poles not approved for banners. She also told the council that the packet label mistakenly says 12 designs but COPA selected 14.
Council discussion was brief and centered on pole ownership and permissions for private-property locations. Councilors asked whether private-property owners had declined and about the process for seeking permission; Cozen said the town would need to request permission from private owners if the town chose to pursue those locations. COPA chair Jeanette Ward was present during the Q&A.
By a voice/hand agreement of council members in the chamber, the council elected to move the item to the consent agenda for the next meeting rather than take final action that night.
The motion to move the banner designs to the consent agenda does not itself approve the designs; final approval will be recorded in the consent portion of the next published council meeting minutes if adopted there.
Copies of the proposed banners and the map indicating pole ownership were provided to council in the meeting packet; Cozen and COPA chair Jeanette Ward offered to answer additional questions before the consent vote.
