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AGENDA
CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES ADVISORY BOARD
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 AT 5:30 P.M.
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
III. ROLL CALL:
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES ADVISORY BOARD
Regular Members Alternates
Cable Neuhaus (Chair) Diane Cappella 1 st Alternate
David Porter (Vice Chair) Vacant 2 nd Alternate
Dianne Sacchetti
Paul Kaufman
Meriel “Honey” Bryan
Mary Wolcott Miles
Also in attendance:
Allyson Black, Resource Manager/Sta ff Liaison
Kathryn Wilson, Planner/1 st Alt Staff Liaison
IV. ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, MODIFICATIONS
V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – OCTOBER 19 , 2010
VI. I TEMS BY COUNCIL LIAISON
VII. ITEMS BY STAFF LIAISON
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
IX. NEW BUSINESS
A. AIPP -11 -01 -000027 - PUBLIC WORKSHOP - ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND
SCHOOL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
X. COMMENTS BY THE PUBL IC
XI. COMMENTS BY THE BOAR D
XII. SELECT QUARTERLY MEE TING DATE:
A. APRIL 19, 2011
B. MAY 17, 2011
C. JUNE 21, 2011
XIII. ADJOURNMENT
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CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS 1
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES ADVISORY BOARD 2
REGULAR MEETING 3
OCTOBER 19 , 2010 4
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The r egular m eeting was called to order at 5:35 p.m . by Chair Cable Neuhaus . 6
I. CALL TO ORDER 7
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 8
III. ROLL CALL 9
PRESENT: C hair Cable Neuhaus, Vice Ch air David Porter, Meriel Bryan, Paul Kaufman, 10
Mary Miles (arrived at 5:37 p,m.), Dianne Sacchetti . 11
ABSENT: None . 12
ALSO PRESENT : City Attorney, R. Max Lohman ; City Clerk Patricia Snider; Resource 13
Manager, Staff Liaison Allyson Black ; Planner , Alternate Sta ff Li ais on Kathryn Wilson . 14
IV. ADMINISTER OATH OF OFFICE TO NEW MEMBERS 15
Mary Miles was sworn in by the Municipa l Services Coordinator. 16
V. ELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON AND VICE CHAIRPERSON 17
David Porter nominated Cable Neuhaus for chairperson. 18
Meriel Bryan seconded. 19
Mot ion passed 6 -0. 20
Cable Neuhau s nominated David Porter for vice chairperson. 21
Paul Kaufman seconded. 22
Motion passed 6 -0. 23
VI. ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, MODIFICATIONS 24
None . 25
VII. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 26
Vice Chair Porter made a motion for approval of the September 21 , 2010 minute s with one 27
correction . 28
Paul Kaufman seconded. 29
Motion passed 6 -0. 30
VIII. BOARDS AND COMMITTEE ORIENTATION: CITY ATTORNEY R. MAX 31
LOHMAN 32
Presented by: City Attorney R. Max Lohman. 33
IX. ITEMS BY COUNCIL LIAISON 34
None . 35
X. ITEMS BY STAFF LIAISON 36
Staff Liaison Allyson Black re ported Downtown at the Gardens has submitted the building 37
permit for the carousel, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year . The shark 38
sculpture will be reviewed by C ity Council in November . 39
XI. OLD BUSINESS 40
Vice Chair Porter inquired a bout the status of the Bus Shelter and Lake Catherine projects. 41
XII. NEW BUSINESS 42
None. 43
XIII. COMMENTS BY THE PUBLIC 44
None . 45
XIV. COMMENTS BY THE BOARD 46
Comments by: Vice Chair Porter confir med the next quarter meeting date , Cable Neuhaus 47
confirm ed e -mail protocol. 48
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XV. ADJOURNM ENT 1
David Porter made a motion for adjournment. 2
Meriel Bryan seconded . 3
M otion passed , 6 -0. 4
The meeting adjourned at 6:38 p.m. The next regular meeting will be held January 18 , 20 1 1 . 5
APPROVED 6
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Cable Neuhaus , Chair 11
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David Porter , Vice Chair 15
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Dianne Sacchetti 19
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Meriel Bryan 23
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Paul Kaufman 27
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Mary Miles 31
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(Vacant) 35
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ATTEST 40
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44 Donna M. Cannon 45
Municipal Services Coordinator 46
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NOTE: These minutes are prepared in compliance with 286.011 F.S. and are not verbatim transcripts of the 48
meeti ng. A verbatim audio recording is available from the Office of the City Clerk. 49
All referenced attachments on file in the Office of the City Clerk . 50
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15 MINUTES
Hook up with Dakota at Downtown at the Gardens and get dizzy
BY MARY JAN€ FINE
WMdnmkCm
Ride a muutee. Or an alligator. Maybe
a tlunia Or a pale horse rumed But-
tercup, a Monarch butte~ perched jaun-
tily on her nose. You won't find Billy Big-
elow standing proud and boastful here.
or dewy-eyed Julie Jordan mounted side-
saddle on a rearing steed. And this merry-
g~ound pes 'round to the tune of Lcon
Jelscl's 'Parade of the Tin. Soldiem" not wigerr and Hlmmmtn nos 'Ckvuod
WIz." but. lhhh. the mmam hOVCK
here all the me.
Round and mund and mind it goes
mom comes along for
the ride. Up and down,
up and down wooden
manes flying, wooden
nostrils flaring, horses
named Kit and Dakota.
Dash and Hope and
Andrews make their
tireless circuit. The horses and a
menagerie of other car-
ousel creatures began u blodrc of basswood.
before craftsmen glued
and carved and sanded
and primed and painted
Where thi one stops. and rtuu. is Down-
man * the Gardens, its home bore sincc
the day after Thusyivtrg. 'lb the cky of
p.lm Bed Gardens, it's a work ofm. one
of thc newest additions to devclopa-fund- ed M in Public Placer. 'Ibe Wdiclb
Ohio-bued Cuousel Works built it at a
cost of t400.000-plus (some of the com-
pany's cuourek go for $1 million). Riden
take a spin for $2. the colt of a token But da ger cheaper by thc dozen Threc
tokens are $5 seven run $10.
Is cost szo. Riders arc few on a recent
aiternoon. A young mother and ha 10% the little boyk mile dmoff
as wide as the ptor's he's rid% A little
girl, clutching tlght to the pole that lilts
and I- her honc in merry#
pllop 'Hi, Chddyl" she shrieks nch time
h comes into sight. A chid musr Sand
ar kut 42 inches rdl to p J~WII~ mlo,
but rhii rider doesn'c hit that mah so hcr
w- -
and coated them with protective varnish. Wood figures are truer Tbe barker just now is Kelly Hannen.
to their carousel ancestors, and five times but buking is not her style. She's a MR-
rpoh 24-year-old whose carousel appm-
d*ion nutches that of its ridem just SO
so lu todry. That includes the grown-up
eyorts. she uyz glancing at I t& sheet
'But don't fowt. we're open til 8 p.m" A
typical weekday attracts aboul2M) or 300.
ud weekends CUI bring twice that my.
On Nn Year's Eve day - rides were free for a mple of houn - more than 1.OOO
peopk took a whirl. Be say% and the 1.11 served apple juice in cham
"On free days. kids won't
,get off it,' Ms, Hartnen
says. And she wants it - known that Kristenlidwell
md Laud Truitt dso do this
W li herself, for 30 hours a week.
Unlcboyre+hgippingoneoftheirmom's II hndz "You-dl dizzy?' The boyx &$e and rhlrc MI hdr an emphatic "M.
HI*ory dda thL c.roure1 too. Wen
pllpucl encWe the urnusel md seek
lgne flutes.
ride.)
'MnhlD"hrnuur
nrcawaol -a* @lysl" Mz Hutnett cdl to (wo
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Januaryl5th ~in~mni.bam~* I
1201 US Hwy
(561) 626-8324 tervis.com
m cduatc riders - thosc old enough
0111 011 Huy Monkon Flagler. busiiu
rrrl atate promoter, founder of
hlm Bacb and the Florida East Cout -. .saber on the Yunrto Colony.
the culy-Xltbantury community of Japa- me f.rmen Umrmtely dbpsscssed after wddwu nbcg4 their LOd ULn to
CratemAnrlyAirCorpS minlwbarz now therlte dFAU and the Boa Raton
%$story of cMWlr gets a nod here,
en honer and anempted to Lnce urod
of combat practice.
to red - &Out Florida's put. "e'S
toa In mediml tima. Wts Iode wood-
ty* on their my around an dY form
But info plaques have their limits. and
the history of the carousel exceeds it. Even
in the en of bits and roundtables. car-
owl were ancient history. depicted in a
Byzantine bas-relief LI early as 500 AD.
Eady carousels (but not that early) were
powered by animals walking in a circle and
pulling a rope and. later, by steam
The fw caraucl in the United States
was buiit in the 1840s. in Hessvills Ohio,
by Fnnz Wie~nhoffeer Germany is the
site of the oldeat existing carousel (circa
I779-lf~EO). located at the Wilhelrnsbad
Park in Huuu.
Still. information abounds at the carou-
ul: It weighs 30,000 pounds measures 42
fect acmu ud 17 feet high. Its platform
is so strong it wouldn't buckle under
thc might of IO ekphantr It hts 27
an- none of them elephants - and
396 lirs, the LED variety that "use the
umc mount ofenergy as turning on your
hairdrycr' md -can run all day on the
mount of electricity needed to run a load
of I.undry.'
Energy of the h- sort abounds at
the camusel A mom and two boys scat
thcmsch in a mki cup, its cxte-
rbr enbluoncd with a beach rene. The
merry-go-tound bqku its slow counter-
cloctrtc drde (European carouscl ~111-
ally revolve cbekwire). the cup spinning
wirhin It.
'Futed" one of the boys yells. "Faster!
FasrcB hi brorber calk Whmecr
vlia loo the md rid- 1 beie -A-
er vest ova her dit~ blouse. a Ilnlle on
her face She watches but doesn't ride 'No, thc kids love it. but it dwpyt makes
mf dizzy," she confeuer "I can ride a rok comer. but phg in a circle makes
me rick." W
Kelly Hutn*t obrava IU the Mion
Family event
to raise money for park
"A hmily day at the park' is set for
Jan Is from noon to 4 p.m. at 25 Van
Road in he Riverside neighborhood of
Jupiter. The went is being held to raise money
to turn six acres behind the W)-home
development into a park. Some reri-
dents voluntarily donate $100 a yeu to
The Rwmide "Green Space" project
fund the planned park.
ph is for a walking trail and green
space, a kid-h'iendly space and the pro-
tection of gopher turtles and hawks. The went will feature hot dogs and
drinks, MNR trail walks. 'Sherlock" ~IC
Jupiter poke dog, Grand Slam Marine's
cruy cam, and rider on the RPRAAX
hot dr balloon (for a $5 donation).
For more information call Linda Col-
aprete at 515-6999. B
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Light CO. was a popular natural attraction. opened to the public in 1980. Homeland
the visitors gather before their tour on the 5,000 people going through here each
hdey Barber Swamp bodwalk.
"There was a lot of work to get it look- of the 'Itensured Lands Foundation. "It's
ing lie this," he said. "The Boy Scouts really an important educational and envi-
came out and got it done over ~vd ronmental asset for the state."
weekends." Treasured Lands Foundation, a group Of
Fallen limbs. invasive plants and "a lot conservationists. and FPL presemd the of animal scat" had to be clured and swamp. and in 2008. FPL addressed sect!-
repaired for the grand reopening of the rity issues to allow its reopening. But nine
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season," said Mr. Barrowclough. director I
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hasemtedtwa-
dozen-plus pieM
for the city. more
than any other
artist. "if you pLn
on nuking a liv-
ins you hm to do
stuff that's com-
madnlly viable."
And that he
r
hb- without the WOW baor. Hm kt him demonstratr Hb bd L wt of.wh8Ck t0d.y - he ddb asofa-buthe
toomdueti mini out- outside tem-
pemhue rrbm, Daclmba. but he's
gottheheat umb4 up to August as he
he& tmwrrd'?bc obdids" a gleaming 36foot-taIlob/*dMiolomrporcion fmhbneddpdWlcdmln*nstedits
upper studded with 6W6 custom-mad+
cleu-glur mublcs ud all of it winking with reflected Nnlit.
Stop by in daylight lnd it's a mirror. rrfle*ine the AustnU8n pines across
the way, one of the city's countless pink
MeditermK.n build- and the PGA @over. Stap by at n@ht and the com-
puter medun*m Ndad inside performs
a six-minute-bng li$~ how upable of
printing the piem Mr. Fuller says. with
U million different colon. %os people don't realize it's public
art,. he says, inspecth a small dent on its west-f8cing side. Deliberate vm Wi Some kid tm his aim with
amck?Evm w&n an art& works at
pea, along with sqmbbks and quuzicd
simpkf.ilurrtowdmund.
*hycim pu hlve sommhhg visual.
cveryhdy's pt M opioion on it," MI. pwkt PyL And, inovitlbly, thorc opin-
bnr will IncIudr 'You all that art?"
"Contiguotu Cumnu- by Gmk-born rnbt Corm Vmum is OM such piece,
$uaely-mvo~CC
pS0ple-p~ $ha will hap
dM, and rude lenulks md. weu a
nmr'IhcWm.b -
n0tianadcdU.
Hhv*" says cowrllrmn Eric Jablib, the
dty'rli to M in PUWC Placer "It's
a large piece, very modan It's untradi- ckarl. but the utia b a world-ranowned
uc*t whohu pkca .U aver the world." Mr. Vuoaor has pieces in the Nation-
al MuseumofCoatanponryM in
Athens and the Murac &Arr Moderne
a dM Contanponin in Nie+ Fnnce. unong othcr pres- venues MI.
Mkr is a fur Twple don't understand
it,. he says. 7hey think it's stupid. But I
appreciate it. I thiak it\ a gur piece." opinions are an upmed element
OflrLAn wants tomJppeople think. It seeks to expand a viewer's mind. It's
nluedhac.9wd out inOrdiDlrvx
46.PlItN.Oupta1S1dthe ci code: WHEReAT the Cipv dRlm Buch Gw- dem rdrnowledga the important pm
d to mc'lhte that
the arts play in the livcs of its residents
and visiton: md WHEREAS, the City of
Pdm Buch Cvdens prides itselfin its
projects and programs in the visual and
Well, three more WHEWes later.
performing aft.?: ad.. .
of the artist, who often emta kinetic
pieces. so MI. Fuller bch thb work
dnerva a better opportunily to show
its rtuK The rows ofamnccted rilwry
squares un, and should fluncr; they
should snrk uound. 'he always klt thc city should have insulkd fans,. he
says, 'to @ more of the wid a"
~t Lesry Mace he utlli 1- actbn
strid@ from one work to another. an
exercise in styles lnd creativity. MI.
Fuller's oeuvre, as they uy in art circles.
is not prediible. Nce 'Suck 45" for
example, which beus no rrrembllnce
at all to "The obeusk.-Or to "Arc
Solar" outside the conference center at
the Doubletree Hotel Or to "Buttdy Grove. at FGA Commaru. Or "Stent
lbw" in fmnt of the Palm Beach Gu-
dens Medical Center. Or '09.U.01" at
Memorial Plw No, "Stack 49 has its own story. one
related to the man behind Legacy Place
and PCA National and BallenIsles. urban
designer Hank Skokowski, who also
MklmPmnumr"~hnplkocah
the code defmes "works of art" painting,
Xulpturq fountah. cryvine. clrvin& fre- mobiles. murals. collages mosa-
ics. bu-reliefs tapestries. photographs
drawings.
City offds do not want to feld
those My tu money paid for THAT?
cdls. because thon taxes don't pay
for that. When they penned the code
amendment it included a wonderful
little provision that puts the fmurW
burden on developers 1 percent of any
project that exceeds SI million The
developer selects the Utin urd the dte
city." says MI. Jabkin "That b my thin& I
li that to be known.
His art apprechtion comes Ntunlly:
'I gewup in NewYorls*he nya with a
whlt*~-know shrug,
md a de "I went to munumrin the
city. Every opportunity WehmtoVirit a museum my wife md I, we do, in every
city we9 ta I just thinkutists ye spc-
cLI people I love wht they da" The city's bve for art was codltled in
1988 (IS yun &r Miami-Dade County
esublished one of the country's fin1
lic placcsbcguu in the most publk of
those pl.ce* City W. where artist llm heatice's "Tryptich" hmga from the
lobby ceiling, a fitter& rMmmtriry
inviution to bok up Mr. Puller L a f.n
lnd pays for my future mrintenuvL
"M-MdsUlturt I( J prb* lo the
publieart pryuns'. md its ut in pub-
ccuuIEsYRaT0
Scottsdalc kiz, built some, too, albeit
not without controversy.
and utistic?" Mr. Jabli ash The city
set aside SIIOIKX) for the UtKL plus a $l8o,ooo buildq budget, for four shel-
ten on each high-.
But then WIUMl ?he bus shelter
project got thrown under a bur "GAR- DENS SPENDING 544o.OOO ON N To ADORN BUS STATIONS" blared
an Aug. 21.2009 headline on the mver
of ne Rim Beach htr Local section
The nmrprpa did explain - near the
mnds didn't cost the publica dim* it
was money sitting in the AIPP co&rs.
Butitbokedbad
"You could not convince the gmml
public that it wasn't ux money." Mr Jab-
Un uyr
Raints de phuae alh wrote kt-
tmtumedupbefore theminophaaert
city coundl me*ing.
"It was very fNturW RulLclble
What better than something practical
md of the &le - that the thov
Ncuhur chairman of the dty's Alpp
Advisory Bod, 'to hear people ~ay,
owandover.thatthiswuumonw.''
ed dlea. and the city council votcd
down its own pmiCa. llut didn't lodr
good either. 'IRe whok bmuhrh. dexly
stU mnkks, but Mr. JabUn pmfers to kt
the muter rest. 'Ih.t bur has left tbesu-
tion
'You live md lurn lnd you nvvive to
come back mother day," he say% '?hir
city has become the beautiful city it is
not beuun we arc bull-headd We
nunine our mistakes md we learn from
them"
But the protc~Utbru hd theu Intcad-
Mr. Fuller is lor forgivii
"It drives me nuts.' he uys. 'The aty
hd close to a million doh in the pub-
lic art fund that's pw'q cobwebs. That
project would've put food on the tables of about 30 families forlevenlmonths. JcU Loubel m?y dw done a beav
job of getting the word out there.''
The appd p- for pubkart in
the C.nkns is gencrdy smoothcz morr
@le me developer selects M lrt-
in the artist pqum apmsmUtm
with drawings or models or did= of rhc
proposed work. the project receives a
yea or nay and. sometimes. a suggation
for modifmtion.
But beauty is in the eye of the
beholder, so which beholder. and whose
eye. should one trust? In the Gardens.
was Mr. Fuller's but friend. "ad was
wd on 45s." Mr. Fulkr says. pstur-
ing tod the outer ring of five black
and the fie ditkrent-cobd inner
circles that represent lhdr bels. Fiy
and k.S% theage Hank SMroWrlu
wu when hewaskilled inamatorcyek
accident in AwtnUL shortly after the
completion of legrev Place.
'Itibuta to MI. Sltdmwrki ubc other
fom hem too: a dbenchu
each adiamnt style each a nod to the man whomant so much tothedty.
and tohis Mmb In erh apir ofHd sbaLwld'llhoquninlluminum rqmcnts an aspect of his we! mO(0r-
cyck boots, Npflops. formal rhos. UnUlaKI, "rile &sip htent of thae bencha:
reds ad~"&toevabc&hcbccl- irlmu-hLanpmilyncppsd awaydb@tokb-a
viaulmaqhaofwhto-
fromlUlMOWdC~narbcr' The dty of Mr. Fuun'r work is a
point of pride fur him. "Most of my projects hve a roored
meaning," he up. "I don't do pbp ut. I
don't do the picture over-^ kind
The number ofhis pieces chorea for
disphy b a point of contcotioll for #omc obwrva* md even for the city's rdvc
soy bwd Not long lgo, whalbolh of
his proposals for city bur shdten wae
chosen froma group of% rubmbba*
he uys, 'you could hear an audible
pan. But it was apoint systan and, by
fu. I was had urd shoulden rbwe dl of
the othen I em bout about bt." The bus shdter proieet howcvrr
fliled to p forward, a slpunu, itself-
and rlro a bit ofcommentary on plblic
art. 'IRe mbhigpr began with pllm ?hn
which expd an intuat in Lutluing
more bus shelters along the city's two
nuInthomlrghhu&PCABoddmd
Military 'Rail hch roadway hosts one shelter. MI. JabUn says, hudly enough to
meet the demand.
Neither PaImThn nor the city bd
a budget flush enough, however. to
underwrite the project. Then inspimation
struck Why not Mr. Jabh nuomd. put
out a call to area artists to design the bus
shelters and pay for them with surplus
AIPP money? Allyson Black the city's
resource manager, checked it out: New
Orleans boasted artistic bus shelters.
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