Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution amends the Planning Division’s 2025 Adopted Operating Budget to accept and appropriate an additional $50,000 from the Madison Community Foundation (MCF) for the Teejop Community History Public Art Project. The Planning Division's Other Grants fund account will be amended to include the revenues and corresponding expenditures (Munis org 1220654).
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Amending the 2025 Adopted Operating Budget for the Planning Division’s Support for the Arts service to accept $50,000 from the Madison Community Foundation for the Teejop Community History Public Art Project.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison endeavors to place public art throughout the City according to our Public Art Framework adopted by the City Council (Resolution ID #30476 on March 19, 2002); and
WHEREAS, as part of their 50th Anniversary Celebration, the Madison Community Foundation set aside $50,000 to acknowledge that The Ho-Chunk Nation has inhabited this area for thousands of years and to represent the Ho Chunk History of this region; and
WHEREAS, for many years a group of people, many of whom are Ho Chunk, met to determine the best use of those funds including sites and values they felt were important to highlight using the MCF gift; and
WHEREAS, “Teejop” is the traditional Ho-Chunk name for the area around the Four Lakes in central Wisconsin, which includes the City of Madison; and
WHEREAS, the group determined that the locations and values they identified would be best celebrated through public art; and
WHEREAS, members of the group and the Madison Community Foundation asked the Madison Arts Commission staff to administer the public art project; and
WHEREAS, on Jan 16, 2024, the Madison Arts Commission voted to administer the Teejop Community History Public Art Project; and
WHEREAS the Teejop Community History Public Art Project will result in a series of temporary public artworks in places within Madison that are significant to Ho-Chunk history and culture; and
WHEREAS, the proposed budget amendment will be a one-time occurrence and will allow Madison Arts staff and the Madison Arts Commission to fund and administer the Teejop Community History Public Art Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Planning Division’s 2025 Adopted Operating Budget for the Planning Division’s Support for the Arts service is amended to appropriate $50,000 in private donation revenue and corresponding purchased services expenses for the Teejop Community History Public Art Project within the Other Grants fund; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Teejop Community History Public Art Project will be administered by the City of Madison Arts staff; and,
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the City formally accepts funding from the Madison Community Foundation for the Teejop Community History Public Art Project.