The Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee met on June 22, 2026, to discuss and approve items including a mural artwork waiver, zoo pricing adjustments, and playground equipment selections. Reports were provided on zoo operations, recreation programs, parks maintenance, and a yard-of-the-month program. The next meeting is scheduled for July 20, 2026.
Are we ready to start? That was my fault, I wasn't paying attention. We work these sides. Uh let's get started. Welcome to the parks, recreation and beautification committee meeting. Vicky, would you call roll, please? Commissioner Paula. Here. Commissioner Cassows. Commissioner Porter. Julie Serena. Brian Davis. Hunter McLamore. Here. Commissioner Jones. Michael Perkins. Here. Kim Tipton? Here. Philip Frazy. Thank you, Vicky. Before you in the packet, you have the minutes from our last meeting from May eighteenth. Have you had time to look them over? I'll take a motion for approval. So I have a motion and a second to approve the minutes from May eighteenth. All those in favor say aye. Anyone opposed? Same sign. The minutes are approved from our last meeting. At that point in time, we found out that there are rules and restrictions. So I will kind of turn it over to across the chamber. Morris because his uh explanation has a lot more legal authority to it than mine. And so we'll leave that to him to respond to but uh just to let you know that we have not received any feedback from the artist himself. Okay. Mr. Morris Madam Chair So I actually I understand that you have one form of the waiver in front of you. I actually drafted one before that that I like much much better and it's shorter and it's simpler and it just says you waive all VARA rights period. We can do whatever we want however we want whenever we want you waive all your rights. That seems to me to be the way most cities handle it but after reaching out to Albuquerque they took a much softer approach and they wanted to give their artists some you know some deference and some the ability to interject and do the repairs themselves or have some say so. So after getting their feedback I drafted this second version that you have in front of you. I didn't put a timeline on it so in the fourth paragraph down it's it talks about in cases of emergency public safety concerns or where immediate action is reasonably required the city will make reasonable documented efforts to notify the artist prior to undertaking significant restoration alteration or repair of the artwork which is essentially we've done in this case it goes on to say upon such notice artists shall have a reasonable opportunity at a mutually agreed and reasonable cost to the city to perform or oversee any necessary repairs, restoration or touch-ups. And then the next paragraph is where we prescribe the amount of the time they have to respond to us we just write that word reasonable again. So that's intentional because every situation can be dealt with on a kind of a case by case basis. The way reasonable is defined under Black's law is it reads courts generally define it as the amount of time that an ordinarily prudent person would consider fair and appropriate under the specific circumstances. What is quote reasonable and quote depends heavily on the facts industry standards the nature of the obligation the urgency the party's expectation expectation and sometimes local custom or statutory context in this case I think it would make a difference if the person's here local what's a reasonable amount of time versus if they're maybe National Guard and deployed in Afghanistan or or something. So I think where they are how we notified them was it mail was it a phone call was it email all of that would factor into what we think is reasonable. Or we could just put a timeline on it. I think reasonable is a little bit safer but we could put a lengthy timeline on it give them 90 days, 120 days if we wanted to do that. I don't see why not that's to me that seems like that would be plenty of notice. Or we can do with away with it all together and just require that they waive all their rights and give unfettered discretion to the city to touch up repair restore et cetera so I'm not sure what the better option is.