Group looking to complete courthouse art learns money isn't there

[thelakelander]

Although Jacksonville City Hall has been planning for years to install art outside the Duval County Courthouse, it never actually had enough of the money that was supposed to pay for it, city officials said Tuesday.

Now, the city must find funding elsewhere in order to complete the installation, which was budgeted for $897,880. Plans for the art were the result of the 1997 Art in Public Places ordinance, which calls for a small portion of new construction projects' costs to be set aside for public art.

City Councilmen Greg Anderson and John Crescimbeni met with city officials on Tuesday and were told the money originally set aside for the art in the courthouse's $350 million budget, part of the $2.25 billion Better Jacksonville Plan approved in 2000, is not available.

Full article: http://members.jacksonville.com/news/2014-07-29/story/jacksonville-group-looking-complete-courthouse-art-learn-money-isnt-there

[duvaldude08]

Good ole Jacksonville style, what can we say

[pierre]

Just get Keith Haring's Ghost to do it for free

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

This is pretty much bullshit.

But is it any real surprise?

[thelakelander]

Nopeeeeee.......