Remarks by Olga Granda
104 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
- Play at 1:41:37
“This is not a requirement that this building has. This is something that the community wants to put there.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:44:31
“Well, I think it was a completely different process because it came through the call to artists and the PAC, but when we approved the actual work, there was a presentation about the work.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:46:58
“Is there a funding shortage for this project at this time?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:47:19
“Do we have discretionary funds that we can contribute to this?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:47:48
“$45,000. That seems very high compared to some of the other projects that we've done.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:54:13
“I asked the question if that was a possibility, so we would have to get an answer from city staff, and we would have to see a budget in order to decide whether or not that was something we could do.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:54:43
“I think it depends on the budget of the work.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 1:55:08
“Sure. So I make a motion. AIPP Resolution 18550, Resolution of the Art and Public Places Board with attachments pursuant to Chapter 62, Article 16, titled Art and Public Places of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended. approving a public art installation by Marvin Weeks, the artist, titled The Miller and Nancy Dawkins Mural, located at approximately 4800 Northwest 12th Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33127, also known as the Miller J. and Nancy S. Dawkins Olympic Pool Complex, located within Charles Hadley Park, making findings containing a severability clause and providing for an…”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:02:20
“These are the actual proposals. That's not being selected.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:02:41
“You don't have a picture of one, so you only have a picture of two and three?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:08:40
“On the ORCID project, is there a part of the budget that is then allocated to the maintenance of the live plants, or the expectation is that that's something that's going to be programming afterwards with Fairchild?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:10:02
“But that has a limited time. So that would happen one or two times. And then the concern is, of course, three, four, five, ten years from now, then there are no orchids and it's a sculpture. And maybe that's okay. Maybe it's beautiful enough to be there. But I know we recently had another park that we had to fund the landscaping for, etc. So that's why that's a concern to me.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:20:10
“Just to clarify, Joyce has not yet come back with her reduced proposal for the limited budget. Her original proposal was just for the full $48,000.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:21:10
“But you're confident that she, like she's open to having such a great reduction of the budget and still working?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:24:05
“And the PAC member from District 4, there was a designated commissioner representative, you said?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:26:31
“Yes, but to answer your question, yes, we can choose to defer this if we prefer to not approve it at this time.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:27:07
“I don't feel like I have a clear understanding of what the the orchid wall is gonna be like Move to approve Magnus and not choice Or defer the whole thing Anybody else have a thought I mean Is there anything we gain by approving part of it and not the other part?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:27:51
“If we're confident we're going to have quorum. I support approving Magnus, but I'll go with what everybody else wants.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:28:20
“Would you support moving forward with Magnus only, or do you want to defer the whole thing?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:29:53
“So do we want to move forward with approving Magnus?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:29:59
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:30:53
“and continue or deferring the approval of Joyce until the next meeting when we see her final proposal.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:32:03
“Okay, so I do need to finish with just Magnus and not add the continuance.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:32:32
“Okay, so I make a motion to split AIPP Resolution 1885 to separate the approval of Magna Sodom and from Joyce Ouellette. Does that work? And then we come back.”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026
- Play at 2:33:05
“And then now I repeat, oh, do we need to vote on that?”
Art in Public Places Board · Feb 9, 2026