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CHANGE ORDER NO. ELEVEN TO CONTRACT K-1617-83: BY AND BETWEEN THE NORMAN MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY AND FLINTCO, L.L.C. INCREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $277,298 FOR A REVISED CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $26,437,814 FOR FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION OF THE PUBLIC ART PIECE FOR THE NORMAN FORWARD CENTRAL LIBRARY PROJECT AND BUDGET APPROPRIATION FROM THE NORMAN FORWARD FUND BALANCE.
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BACKGROUND: The City of Norman and the Norman Arts Council (NAC) have partnered in projects to install art in public places within the City of Norman. Through this partnership, the NAC has purchased art pieces, and the City provides a location for the piece(s) within public spaces owned by the City of Norman. Funding for the public visual art pieces has come from the Art in Public Places Fund, the Capital Fund and more recently from the NORMAN FORWARD Fund.
With the adoption of NORMAN FORWARD, the City committed to expend an amount not to exceed 1% of the aggregate construction costs of major facilities and community parks improvements costs on public art at those major facilities and parks. Because of the City's positive relationship with the NAC and the NAC's commitment to the sense of community fostered by public art, the NAC has agreed to expand the partnership with the City of Norman to assist with the selection, location, and installation of public art purchased with Norman Forward Sales Tax (NFST) revenue. The terms of this partnership were discussed at the City Council Conference of February 9, 2016 and at the Norman Forward Citizen's Financial Oversight Committee meeting of March 28, 2016.
Paul Cocksedge Studio was selected by the Selection Panel to create a piece of sculpture to be installed at the Central Library Project. The piece has also been approved by the Norman Arts Council and Public Arts Board. The permanent location for the work is proposed to be in the plaza area on the south side of the new Norman Public Library Central in Norman, Oklahoma. A copy of the ...
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