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17 <br />MAINTENANCE PRACTICES <br />RECOMMENDATION 12 <br />Develop artwork maintenance practices to ensure the public art collection is in good condition. <br />A professional arts conservator should be hired on an as-needed basis to conduct this work. <br />1. Conduct a condition survey of all City-owned artwork once a year. Include a condition <br />report on each artwork and prioritize recommendations for restoration, repair, or <br />maintenance, as needed. <br />2. Ensure that routine maintenance of the artwork, by the department under whose <br />jurisdiction the artwork is located, occurs with regularity. <br />3. Ensure that all repair and restoration of the artwork is completed with the highest standards <br />of professional conservation practice. d. Proactively address maintenance and conservation <br />needs for new artwork commissioned and purchased by the City of San Leandro by <br />facilitating a technical review of the artist’s conceptual and final design in consultation with <br />an art conservator. <br />4. Offer periodic workshops on routine maintenance practices to City of San Leandro <br />department staff responsible for day-to-day general upkeep of the artwork. <br />OVERVIEW <br />The image and value of the City of San Leandro’s public art collection depends <br />on the work being in good condition, which requires careful documentation, <br />monitoring, and maintenance. Artworks in the collection need to be inventoried, <br />documented, and assessed on a regular basis. <br />1. Maintenance refers to all activities required to conserve, repair, or preserve <br />the integrity of an artwork and site in which the artwork is located. This is the <br />responsibility of the Arts and Culture Program staff. Routine maintenance is <br />limited to the basic day-to-day care of the artwork, conducted by the Public <br />Works Department such as mowing the lawn around an outdoor sculpture <br />and removing the daily accumulation of dust, dirt, and fingerprints. Removal <br />of grafitti needs to be accomplished by a qualified art conservator to prevent <br />damage to artwork by abrasives that are generally used by Public Works. <br />2. Conservation refers to the activities required to repair, restore, and conserve <br />a damaged or malfunctioning artwork, including treatment that returns the <br />artwork to its original condition. The Arts and Culture staff is responsible to <br />oversee the conservation of artwork and conduct an annual survey of the <br />condition of the artwork in the City’s collection. <br />28