MARTA will set aside 1% of it's annual budget for public art (sales, neighborhoods)

[cqholt]

Starting July 1st, about $2.5M will be set aside for public art program , KP announced this on 6/29/2016 during the reveal of the En Route mural at King Memorial Station, a partnership between MARTA and WonderRoot.

The MARTA board recently voted in favor of the public arts program. That means the public arts initiative will serve as a source of revenues through the annual 1 percent of the agency’s capital improvement program. MARTA also has accepted the responsibility for maintaining the murals.

MARTA, WonderRoot and other partners unveil Pecou mural at King Memorial Station - SaportaReport

[Mossberg]

Nice!

[fourthwarden]

MARTA has a lot of blank concrete to pretty-up!

[Sualpine]

Just add live music and I'll be happy.

[bu2]

Sounds like they don't need that extra tax, since they are spending it on things other than transit.

Earmarks are just really bad ideas.

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by bu2

Sounds like they don't need that extra tax, since they are spending it on things other than transit.

Earmarks are just really bad ideas.

Yup. Wonder how that will go over with taxpayers who get to vote on the increased sales tax?

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by bu2

Sounds like they don't need that extra tax, since they are spending it on things other than transit.

Earmarks are just really bad ideas.

How dare an agency who is running at a budget surplus set aside some of that surplus to improve the aesthetic quality of their system?

How dare that same agency not, simultaneously, have enough of a surplus to fund the massive level of expansion that they, and the city, and the citizens, want?

Seriously, this is .1% of the overall expansion effort. IF this program ran for the full 40 years, which I HIGHLY DOUBT IT WILL, it would be a measly 4% of the full effort. That is also if it was coming out of the expansion funding, which it isn't. At all. Period.

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Yup. Wonder how that will go over with taxpayers who get to vote on the increased sales tax?

Probably pretty well, considering it's a visible way to add color and beauty to the generally bank and bleak aesthetics of MARTA's structures.

Y'all're fooling y'all's selves if you think this will hurt the sales-tax vote.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bu2

Sounds like they don't need that extra tax, since they are spending it on things other than transit.

Earmarks are just really bad ideas.

So wait, first people talk about how ugly the brutalist style of the stations are and then get upset when a transit agency that has made 3 straight years of budget surplus wants to integrate those stations into the neighborhoods more?
Nobody gets upset when GDOT builds an ornate bridge.
MARTA cannot win with some people. Personally this is a drop in the bucket from their budget and with go far beyond the $2.5 million/year spent on the project.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by fourthwarden

How dare an agency who is running at a budget surplus set aside some of that surplus to improve the aesthetic quality of their system?

How dare that same agency not, simultaneously, have enough of a surplus to fund the massive level of expansion that they, and the city, and the citizens, want?

Seriously, this is .1% of the overall expansion effort. IF this program ran for the full 40 years, which I HIGHLY DOUBT IT WILL, it would be a measly 4% of the full effort. That is also if it was coming out of the expansion funding, which it isn't. At all. Period.




Probably pretty well, considering it's a visible way to add color and beauty to the generally bank and bleak aesthetics of MARTA's structures.

Y'all're fooling y'all's selves if you think this will hurt the sales-tax vote.

It doesn't matter anyway as neither of them have a vote in the CoA-ONLY sales tax increase.

[glovenyc]

I really wish Cobb would join MARTA.