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Leesburg art commission approves 2025 budget, affirms meeting schedule and awards $250 to public piano artist
Summary
The Leesburg Commission on Public Art (COPPA) approved its 2025 budget, kept regular meetings on Mondays at 5:30 p.m., authorized additional $250 payment to the public-piano artist, and discussed a slate of public-art projects and timelines including town banners and a free-art library placement.
The Leesburg Commission on Public Art (COPPA) approved its 2025 budget and several operational items during its Jan. 6 virtual meeting, and commissioners also approved an extra $250 payment to the artist who refurbished the public piano.
COPPA members voted to adopt the draft budget presented at the meeting after a short discussion about line items and prior fiscal-year payments. Commissioners said COPPA's draft budget is roughly $1,500 higher than the previous year to provide flexibility for the commission's events and projects; the commission's staff liaison will confirm with finance whether prior-year payments to external events were charged to the 2023-24 fiscal year or reflected against current-year funds.
Why it matters: The budget establishes funding for COPPA's public-art calendar and programs, including the annual calendar printing, Love Your Mother sponsorship, the public piano, the town sculpture and banner projects, and other community arts initiatives. Several approved allocations…
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