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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: May 18, 2020 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:20-094 ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number:10.A. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />BY:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Liz Warmerdam <br />Interim Finance Director <br />TITLE:City Council Discussion of Mildred Howard’s Proposed Design for the Work of <br />Art to be Installed Along the Front Façade of the San Leandro Main Library <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Consistent with the City Council’s direction at its July 15, 2019 meeting, staff brings forward for <br />the City Council’s consideration, based on the City of San Leandro Arts Commission’s <br />recommendation, the draft design of a sculpture to be installed along the front façade of the San <br />Leandro Main Library. <br />BACKGROUND <br />At the July 15, 2019 regular City Council meeting, the Council approved a $135,000 contract with <br />award-winning Bay Area artist Mildred Howard for the design, fabrication, and installation of a <br />bronze sculpture to be installed at the San Leandro Main Library. Ms. Howard spent the <br />subsequent months formulating design concepts. <br />As part of her development of the proposed sculpture, Ms. Howard worked collaboratively with a <br />committee of the City of San Leandro Arts Commission consisting of the Chair and Vice Chair of <br />the Commission. She also received input from the City’s Library Director as part of the process. <br />The proposed sculpture would be cast in bronze from a local foundry in the East Bay and would <br />be approximately 12-15 feet in height and mounted on the front façade of the Main Library, below <br />the exterior clock on the lower portion of the building, adjacent to the main entryway. As part of the <br />project, Ms. Howard also secured an agreement from Quincy Troupe, nationally-acclaimed <br />author, poet and professor, to develop a related poem that would be installed along the façade of <br />the retaining wall located immediately in front of the Main Library building, adjacent to the <br />Library’s front lawn area. It is envisioned that the poem would provide additional context for the <br />proposed sculpture. A visual rendering of Ms. Howard’s proposal is attached as an exhibit to this <br />staff report. <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 4/29/2020 <br />23