Fiscal Note
Funding of $85,600 is included in the 2025 adopted Capital Budget of the Planning Division's Percent for Art Aggregate Fund (project #15043) for the public art component of the Madison LakeWay project. Additional funding privately raised by the Madison LakeWay Partners will also be used towards this project. No additional City appropriation required.
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Establishing the Ad Hoc Madison LakeWay Public Art Selection Committee (District 4, District 6, District 13, and District 14)
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WHEREAS, multiple plans adopted by the Common Council over the last twenty years, including the Public Art Framework and Field Guide for Madison, Wisconsin (2002) (the “Public Art Framework”), the Madison Cultural Plan (2013), and the Comprehensive Plan (2018), recommend that the City integrate and fund public art as part of City capital projects as a primary way to introduce public art into the life of the community; and,
WHEREAS, the City owns the area known as the Madison LakeWay (formerly known as the Lake Monona Waterfront), which includes 1.7 miles of Lake Monona shoreline and 17 acres of lakefront property, extending from S. Blair Street on the north, counterclockwise along the Lake Monona shoreline to E. Lakeside Street on the south, and consists of all or portions of Law Park, the John Nolen Drive Causeway, and Olin Park; and,
WHEREAS, in early 2022, Madison Parks launched the Lake Monona Waterfront Design Challenge - a competition to create a visionary, inclusive, and environmentally focused master plan for the Madison LakeWay, the City’s foremost public lakefront; and,
WHEREAS, in April 2024, the City approved the Design Challenge winner’s master plan for the Madison LakeWay; and,
WHEREAS the Madison LakeWay has included, from its inception, the addition of public art in every phase of the development of the project as a primary way to integrate public art into the life of the City; and
WHEREAS, Madison Arts program staff will administer the pub...
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