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HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA • OCT. 21-JAN. 15 • HIGH.ORG
FUNDING PREMIER EXHIBITION
PROVIDED BY SERIES SPONSOR
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern is organized by the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840—1917), Christ and Mary Magdalene (detail), original model 1894,
carved by Victor Peter 1908, marble, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2014.32.
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SANDY SPRINGS
Lease terms approved with
Georgia Commission on the
Holocaust
BY BOB PEPALIS
Sandy Springs City Council voted 4-2
to approve the lease terms and conditions
with the Georgia Commission on the Ho
locaust (GCH) at its Aug. 16 meeting.
The council took the vote after its sec
ond public hearing on its plans for a cultur
al center that would house the GCH offic
es, a new Anne Frank
in the World Exhib
it and the Georgia
Holocaust Memori
al. The building also
is expected to house
Visit Sandy Springs
— the city’s hospitali
ty and tourism agency
— and a Sandy Springs
Police substation.
The plan is to
build the cultural
center at 6110 Blue
Stone Road, the for
mer home of Heritage
Sandy Springs.
For more than a
year, the project has been quite controver
sial, with many residents and city officials
split on whether they support it.
At the Aug. 16 meeting, councilmem-
bers Jody Reichel and Tibby Dejulio end
ed up voting against the agreement, citing
fiduciary responsibilities. Both said they
support the mission of the GCH, but said
it was not the time for the city to spend
$600,000 on a design when the city’s fi
nances were uncertain.
Dejulio also said if Fulton County and
its cities don’t come to an agreement on the
one-penny Local Option Sales Tax, the city
could lose $33 million in tax revenue. And
if Fulton County gets the share it wants of
the sales tax revenue, Sandy Springs will
lose $10 million in revenue. He cited infla
tion and a recession also.
“We are not being fiscally responsible
stewards of taxpayer dollars by spending
this money at this time until we have better
guarantees until we have better knowledge.
Until we know if we’re going to keep the lo
cal option sales tax,” he said.
Mayor Rusty Paul said the project was
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well funded, with almost $2.5 million avail
able in budgeted city funds for the cultural
center, the GCH’s $3 million letter of credit
against the lease payments that will be due,
and another $2.5 million it plans to raise
for exhibits in the building.
Rep. Sharon Cooper (R-East Cobb),
spoke in support of the project in her first
appearance before the council.
“We certainly need — in this day and
age of so much hatred and divisiveness
in our country — something that speaks
to our young people about what happens
when you let hatred take over,” she said.
“And when you pit one group of people
against another, we are all equal in the eyes
of God. And therefore, I would urge you to
move forward with this.”
The next step for the cultural center
project will be for an architect to provide
a design based on what the city and GCH
want for the building. That design should
provide estimated construction costs that
will set the amount of the lease payments.
The lease conditions require GCH to
pay 20 years of rent equal to the costs for
the design and construction of its share
of the building, estimated to be 7,000 to
8,750 square feet. The anticipated size of
the building to replace the existing Blue-
stone building is 13,230 square feet.
A January construction estimate put the
cost at $5.93 million.
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