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Home My WebLink About3355 Repealing and Replacing Port Townsend Municipal Code Chapter 3.50 Relating to the City's Public Arts Program; Providing for Severability; and Establishing an Effective DateOrdinance 3355 Page I of 1 Ordinance No. 3355 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON, REPEALING AND REPLACING PORT TOWNSEND MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 3.50 RELATING TO THE CITY'S PUBLIC ARTS PROGRAM; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Port Townsend desires to repeal and replace Port Townsend Municipal Code ("PTMC") Chapter 3.50 relating to the City's Public Arts Program; and WHEREAS, the new code language better reflects the City of Port Townsend's commitment to expanding public experience by advancing awareness of, and interest in, the arts, in connection with the artistic and cultural development of the city; and WHEREAS, the arts enhance the built environment and social fabric of the community and are a fundamental part of Port Townsend's identity; and WHEREAS, it is the intention of the City of Port Townsend to ensure the continued support of public art through 1 % for the Arts funding; NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Port Townsend do ordain as follows: Section 1. PTMC Chapter 3.50.w„Public mmArts Pro ram, Rq?� filed.. and Replaced. Port Townsend Municipal Code Chapter 3.50 (Public Arts Program) is hereby repealed and now replaced as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto and by this reference fully incorporated herein. Section 2. Severability. If any sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other section, sentence, clause, or phrase or work of this ordinance. Section 3. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force five days followingcation its publication the manner provided by law. ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend, Washington, at a regular meeting thereof, held this 20th day of October 2025. David J. Faber Mayor Attest: Al agues C:i :Ierk EXHIBIT A 3.50.10 Purpose and policy Section. I'lie city offlort "Fownsend is committed toe XpM1(1i!WUbhc experience by adyan i , awareness of and interest in, the art�,tin connection with the artistic and cultural development of the city. A. In alignment with _this poll athe �� encourages artwork to be ineorporated into city -egpital meets, as defined lierein and that a ortiog oftlie pro.ect's cost be allocated J'or the ac( of public art, the upkeep of vublic art owned by the City, the 111g1!,,Qf.pqbj1q- art at the end of its useful life or the romotion and im lementation of art pro ramming 3.50.020 Definitions. A. "Commission" means the Port Townsend arts commission, A '!ca �itoLqi et" is delined as any project P,!,Iicl Cm~ who�jy .0 �L t in part by the CaL-gfPoa.t Townsend to construct or remodel my-hq N(Rm-8-mlc—turgj2ar� StEg.ut � LJdC 'A' a 1k .Kk-. -6 facility- or utility, or any portion thereof, inclUdin es to any building within _permanent fixtures the jUrisdiction of' t1ie.-!L,:qy-of Port Townsend. HowgygE, u� ).ur ias of I _1L -p el q and . . .... local improvement district projects such district, maintenance, rqpA:tr, and operation, and the purchase of equipment are not considered -capital 3.50.030 Source of funds for municipal construction projects. A. All _Dq!1!gswKqqyiredd by..thjs section shall bede2ositq4J to the Municipal Arts Fund from which the Arts Commission shall create an annual budget to resent to the CitV COMICil to review and recommend for incorporation into the Ci.y S a[VILIal, budget approval.pj:o��Lss. All City departments shall dWosit into the Municipal Arts Fund out fary monies apprc��—atedrqr any cal)ital project an amount equal to......... one percent (1%) of the qpp for the . . administration o(the Public Art Program, excludiji 11 r le er I s III from st te o J, d a o -ces which are ineligible to be used in c0i)iggetion with Public Art FLind 3110,,rams, One oercent (jN gfille funds from multiple City capitg1_pI,-qJeets may, be accumulated i ' I ' i t ' fie - Public Art Fund fgi'ific o't'j'r'ooses as defined by separate rcs01Uti0I'I 01'thC_(J1y COL11161. B. Qnlyy those ca ital tiroiects exceeldim) the �SLUTI OfSeVellty-fiVC thousand dollars `75,000) will be subject to the _pLt-_,.)visions of this section. At Such tinic as the total capital proiect e.W! n(riture of any individual project exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) the one percent 1%) provided llel'611 Ofall Such monies expended forthat ca ital pro shall be imid iiit() the llublic Art Ftind as rollows: oLie p .qtLgg,ptL - 1,%q), of the construction contract award, excluding funds from restricted sources including the Transportation Benefit District and Olympic Gravity Water System Fund, and excludjing,�An funds from state or federal sources which are ---- ------------- - -_y_ � - iI1ehJ.,Jb1C to Ile used in conjunction with public art fund progranis, includiiig dditive cligM orders or other alterations to the co fund. Washington State sales tax, design fees, furnishings. and administrative expenditures will not be included as part of the CaDital nrqQ'Legget c �xperaditure. 3.50.040 General revenues to the municipal arts fund. In addition to funds. as jnay be a, ropriated for I-nunici, a] conStrLlUiQn_R[QiK�, the city, council shallallocate an g1212r��oii to the mun cd al Arts Fund or other aq_IjjLogLait J cngrneraLc�d in �Lj� Li rp) os c s cLig c Lr._ 3.50.050 Arts commission responsibilities - Process. The Port Townsend Arts Corn i m hall follow -Any pq,[icies related. to public art to make a decisionsL!r��es of visual xiblic -art shaill be urcha,'l whqLty es ofartists shall be efi Jble for contracts irrd li ccessionin Liblic visual art, The Port Townsend Ails Coninl shall also adhere to aily-Rolicies, related to the 0111 Ill )Ublic aq iiii-oniotion ofand encgur� =Rg 3.50.060 Public arts projects - City council approval. 1,'gbIic... Art FLind...liponics.shall not_t2q (,Lxp "o gilded iIIIqLtt the pr( )r the City tincil, _1y: __--pri-or an Nothin in this section shall limit tlac amount of mone the City Port Townsend rill exj)end for at`-, tr—Trt PI gE�trts inifiadves. 3.50.070 Municipal arts fund created. There is, hereb created a s fL nd entitled the "rntini paL�jr!,� und"-J!1!q.which all fUnds shall . . ....... ci city-f �()111 Ay—hatever-SmIrce R)r he )grL)qse ofLfin , for the advancenient or lociLl cWtgral, q -L-4__ � --L_ and arti��flc)ro�')ranis- a�ndsery �iccs NVi �thi n thecit ,.Jq�JL �cfnw J�derql, state or other Rinds to which the city rnav be entitled now or in the filItUre. other ftinds as the city !nM- —froa, Cone to linic _Iransfer into sqi4--fignd. and revenUeS fron1j) nces or )r(jccjs snsgred j2Y-1fi(L9. �j-popirrill Funds eannarked for fundi . ..... n _IlLiblic t E0 IL S, 11 liq0io P aced in the municipal al arts fund, bgL mremain rt of the project Coll st ruct ion-1) udgq!.