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Sebastopol committee weighs storm-drain cover art and how to spend roughly $22,000 in the art fund
Summary
Committee discussed using available art funds (a working figure of about $22,000) for rotating stipends and a proposed program to paint storm-drain covers (city inventory ~800, with roughly 150 large paintable covers), versus saving for a permanent north-entry sculpture; staff to produce a map and assemble a subcommittee for site verification.
The Sebastopol Public Arts Committee reviewed options for using the city’s modest public-art fund and considered a Windsor-inspired program to paint storm-drain covers as a way to distribute art more broadly around town.
Staff described the current art-fund picture as roughly $20,000–$23,000 and used $22,000 as a working number. Committee members reviewed recent commission amounts: the Ned piece is budgeted at approximately $40,000 and a Michael McGinnis library piece at about $30,000 — sums already accounted for in prior…
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