Fiscal Note
This resolution authorizes an agreement between the City of Madison and Madison’s Central Business Improvement District (BID) for programming at locations on State Street and the Capitol Square. The Planning Division’s 2020 Adopted Operating Budget includes $65,000 to support the BID programming and $10,000 from the Room Tax Commission to support temporary art downtown. No additional City appropriation is required.
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Authorizing a $75,000 contract with Madison’s Central Business Improvement District (BID) for $75,000 to fund the continuation of the Downtown Activities Program focused on existing plazas around the Capitol Square and State Street (2nd, 4th and 8th AD), and to support the administration of a Downtown BLINK temporary art program.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison and Madison’s Central Business Improvement District (BID) have been partners in implementing a successful placemaking and activities programming at the Top of State Street and other public spaces throughout the Downtown during each summer since 2015; and
WHEREAS, this partnership has created the “Summer in Your City” program that includes, but is not limited to the popular programs such as “Kids Create at the Top of State”, “Summer in Your City Café”, and the “Madison Night Market”, among other activities; and
WHEREAS, the City would like the BID to continue programming activities both at the “Top of State” as well as other public open spaces and plazas along State Street and the Capitol Square, including, but not limited to, Rotary Plaza, Lisa Link Peace Park, North Frances Plaza, and the intersection of State Street Mall and the Library Mall; and
WHEREAS, in 2019, the BID helped the City implement the 2019 “Downtown Doors” project that matched 28 participating downtown property owners with local artists to “wrap” secondary, front-loading and other unattractive doors on State Street and adjacent areas with locally produced art as selected by the Madison Arts Commission...
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