TO: Chair and Members of the Board
FROM: Samuel A. May, Executive Director
DATE: July 10, 2018
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UPDATE ON THE MARGATE UTILITY BOX PUBLIC ART PROJECT
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BACKGROUND:
MCRA Staff has been diligently working on continuing the Margate Utility Box Public Art Project, which was originally initiated by Redevelopment Management Associates (RMA). MCRA staff has encountered several challenges on understanding and gathering information related to the subject project due to the lack of a transition process between RMA and current MCRA staff. After detailed research MCRA staff presents the below findings:
Traffic Boxes
Initial project was divided into two Phases. MCRA Staff was unable to determine the exact count and location of the traffic boxes to be wrapped in each of those phases determined by RMA. As a result, MCRA Staff has reached out to Broward County to confirm the quantity, location, jurisdiction and ID number of traffic boxes located in the City of Margate.
Further, MCRA Staff in collaboration with the City's GIS Division and actual site visits has confirmed the following (Exhibit 1):
* Utility Boxes within the MCRA: 26. These include traffic boxes (19) and Broward County's Copper Communications Cable Junction Boxes (7), which are usually smaller boxes that are located in close proximity to the main traffic boxes at some of the intersections.
* Utility Boxes Outside of the MCRA Boundaries: 11. These include ten (10) traffic boxes and one (1) Broward County Copper Communications Cable Junction Box.
In addition of wrapping the utility and junction boxes throughout the City, Staff recommends wrapping the Utility Payment Mail Box located in front of City Hall. Since the box is located within the CRA area the MCRA is able to cover this expense.
The total number of boxes to be wrapped, including the utility payment mail box, is 38.
Below are further details of the project:
Call to Artists
* Call to Artists process was completed by R...
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