Tulsa, OK Arts Commission

Type: Municipal Code
Status: Adopted
Source File: http://www.cityoftulsa.org/OurCity/Ordinances/Title5.asp#Chapter3
Text:
TITLE 5
CHAPTER 3
ARTS COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF TULSA
SECTION 300. ARTS COMMISSION CREATED
The Arts Commission of the City of Tulsa is created for the purposes of:
A. Providing for the government of the City of Tulsa and for its citizens a
continuing source of respected and talented opinion and advice concerning public matters
having aesthetic implications in order to ensure that the City of Tulsa will grow more
beautiful as it expands;
B. Emphasizing positive measures for the pursuit of beauty and thus avoiding
undue reliance upon prohibitions and restrictions;
C. Stimulating superior aesthetic quality in all phases of the physical
development of the community; and
D. Assuming such other duties as the Mayor and Council may from time to time assign.
Ord. No. 16527
SECTION 301. MEMBERSHIP
The Commission shall be composed of eleven (11) members appointed by the
Mayor, subject to the approval of the Council. Four shall be lay members and the others
shall include a musician, two architects, one landscape architect and three representatives
from the Arts Council of Tulsa. The Chairmen of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission, the City-County Library Board, and the Tulsa Park and Recreation Board
shall be advisory members of the Commission. The Mayor shall select persons of
recognized public stature with demonstrated capabilities in their fields and who are
interested in the aesthetic quality of the City of Tulsa. In instances where matters within
the purview of the Commission fall within the jurisdiction of any governmental entity or
agency not a part of the government of the City of Tulsa, such as an Independent School
District, the chief administrative officer of the affected entity or agency shall be added to
the membership of the Commission during consideration of the individual project in
which his agency is concerned. Such temporary membership shall not entitle the member
to vote. Members of the Arts Commission shall serve until December 1, 1990.
Subsequently, one-third (1/3) of the members shall be appointed for terms of one (1) year;
one-third (1/3) for terms of two (2) years; and one-third (1/3) for terms of three (3) years.
Thereafter, members shall be appointed for three (3) year terms; provided, however, that
all members shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified. Members
of the Commission shall serve without compensation and no member shall receive any
compensation from the City or from any trust, donation or legacy for any service relating
to membership on the Commission.
SECTION 302. DUTIES
A. No work of art shall be contracted for, commissioned, placed or erected on
property of the City, or become the property of the City by purchase, gift or otherwise,
except for any museum or gallery, unless such work of art, or a design or model of the
same as required by the Arts Commission, together with proposed location of such work
of art, shall first have been submitted to the Arts Commission, and the written
recommendations and comments of the Arts Commission shall have been received and
considered by the Mayor. The term "work of art" as used in this instance shall include
paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues, bas-reliefs or other sculptures,
monuments, fountains, arches or other structures of a permanent or temporary character
intended for ornament or commemoration. No existing work of art in the possession of
the City shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way without the approval of the Arts
Commission, except as otherwise provided herein.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or abridge the legal
powers and duties of the governing body of the Gilcrease Institute of American History
and Art.
B. The aesthetic design of any new buildings or revisions or renovations to
existing buildings or any new or renovated elements of the City's infrastructures or
amenities to be erected upon lands belonging to the City of Tulsa and costing in excess of
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) shall be reviewed by the Arts Commission
within sixty (60) days of submittal, and the written recommendations of the Commission
shall be received and considered by the board or agency responsible for such design.
C. All monuments, sculpture and paintings belonging to the City may
periodically be examined by the Arts Commission, and detailed recommendations for their
cleaning, maintenance and repair shall be made to the Mayor; provided, however, this
provision shall not apply to the Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
D. No permanent commercial enterprise shall be placed or erected in any
building owned by the City or on property of the City unless such commercial enterprise,
or a design or model of the same as required by the Arts Commission, together with a
proposed location of such commercial enterprise, has been submitted to the Arts
Commission, and the written recommendations and comments of the Arts Commission
shall have been received and considered by the Mayor. In the event a policy for the
location and design of commercial enterprises for a specific building or property has been
reviewed by the Arts Commission and approved by the Mayor, review and approval by
the Arts Commission and Mayor of individual commercial enterprises shall not be
required. The term "commercial enterprise" as used in this instance shall include
concessions, refreshment and gift stands, book stands, advertising promotions, displays
and exhibits of any kind.
E. The Arts Commission shall review, at least once a year, allocations made
pursuant to this chapter and shall make recommendations on whether or not to expend
appropriations and for which projects.
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SECTION 303. COOPERATION WITH OTHERS
The Arts Commission shall:
A. Work with public boards, agencies and authorities in establishing
environmental goals for projects and shall assist the City of Tulsa in the evaluation of
redevelopment proposals;
B. Work closely with the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission in
ensuring aesthetic quality and design in Planning Commission projects, and in developing
high quality visual environment; the periphery of publicly-owned property shall receive
the particular attention of the Arts Commission;
C. Work closely with the Tulsa Park and Recreation Department in developing
a program of beautification along public thoroughfares with appropriate landscape
treatment, plantings maintenance and design of amenities, all intended to promote beauty,
to preserve and enhance property values on existing streets and public spaces, and to
stimulate similar private efforts;
D. Offer advice or suggestions to the owners of private property in relation to
the beautification of the property; any person planning to erect any building or make any
improvement may submit the plans and designs or sketches thereof to the Arts
Commission for advice and suggestions, for which no charge shall be made by the Arts
Commission;
E. Advise the Mayor of such other proposals for the use and preservation of
buildings and objects of historical, architectural or cultural significance;
F. Make to the Mayor such other proposals as it deems constructive toward the
preservation and improvement of the physical beauty of the City;
G. Make application for grants in the name of the City of Tulsa, as appropriate
and with the approval of the Mayor, for art-related purposes in keeping with the purposes
of the Arts Commission; and
H. Offer advice and suggestions to any City department, agency or trust which
requests advice and counsel.
Ord. No. 16527
SECTION 304. TIME FOR REVIEW
The Arts Commission shall develop its comments and recommendations upon any
matter submitted to it involving an expenditure of less than One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) within fifteen (15) days after submission and upon any other matter within
thirty (30) days after submission. If such comments and recommendations are not
completed within the times herein established, consideration thereof shall be unnecessary.
SECTION 305. EXPENDITURES
Unless otherwise restricted, appropriations designated for expenditures on the
recommendation of the Arts Commission shall be integrated and held in escrow by the
City until expended. The Arts Commission shall oversee the expenditure of all
appropriations made by the Council to the Commission for the advancement of visual and
performing arts. Any interest accrued on unexpended funds may be used by the City
upon recommendation by the Arts Commission for art-related purposes. "Art-related
purposes" shall be construed so as to include such items other than those listed in
Subsection 302.A. of this chapter.
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SECTION 306. OFFICES, MEETINGS
The Arts Commission shall create and fill such offices as it may determine are
necessary for the performance of its functions. It shall hold at least one regular meeting
in each month. It shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep a record
of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations.
SECTION 307. MUNICIPAL PERSONNEL AND AGENCIES TO ASSIST
The facilities, personnel and agencies of the municipal government are directed to
be made available to the Commission, and at all times such personnel, agencies and
officers shall cooperate with the Arts Commission to accomplish the objectives and
purposes herein set forth.
SECTION 308. BUDGET POLICY
A. No less than one percent (1%) of the total cost of any new buildings or major
revisions to existing buildings to be constructed or erected on property owned by the City,
utilizing public funds, shall be budgeted and expended for works of art as defined in
Subsection 302.A., above. Such works of art shall be reviewed and approved by the Arts
Commission as provided herein.
B. Consideration shall be given to the location, quality and character of works
of art to be utilized in connection with new buildings or major revisions to existing
buildings used for the proposed juvenile detention facility at 315 South Gilcrease Museum
Road or the adult detention facility at 1727 Charles Page Boulevard, in such a way as to
lessen the negative impact such facilities may have to the neighborhoods in which they
are located. Nothing herein, however, shall require that said work of art be located at the
facility.
Ord. Nos. 16527, 17691
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