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Urban Art Commission: 21 pieces need repair; annual maintenance short by roughly two-thirds
Summary
The Urban Art Commission told the council committee that Memphis’s public-art collection of more than 170 pieces has a 21-piece deferred-maintenance backlog. The commission is seeking incremental increases from current maintenance funding of about $35,000 toward an ordinance-level target (~$96,000) and presented a five-year plan to clear the worst
Lakeisha Edwards, director working with the Urban Art Commission, presented a detailed inventory and five-year maintenance plan for the city’s public-art collection at the Oct. 21 committee meeting. The commission reported roughly 170 pieces in the collection and identified 21 projects that need significant maintenance or partial reconstruction. Current annual maintenance funding stands at roughly $35,000; the applicable ordinance contemplates 0.1% (about…
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