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AIPP board approves $106,000 for Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo monument at Shenandoah Park; board adds conditions and calls for PAC review
Summary
The Art in Public Places Board voted 5–1 to spend $106,000 from the AIPP fund on a monument to Cuban poet Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo (El Cucalambé) by artist Nilda Comas at Shenandoah Park, and rescinded a prior Fairlawn allocation to free funds for the commission.
The Art in Public Places Board approved a resolution allocating $106,000 from the AIPP fund to commission a monument to Cuban poet Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo, known as El Cucalambé, to be installed at Shenandoah Park, 2111 SW 19th Street. The board also rescinded a prior resolution that had allocated funds for a different park and directed staff to identify replacement funds for Fairlawn Park.
Indra, planning department staff, presented the proposal and said Commissioner Manolo Reyes requested the monument for his District 4. Indra said the project budget combines previously allocated funds with $50,000 the commissioner secured through…
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