Vote Delayed on Art Program at Airport Terminal
Because of a recently announced delay in completion of John Wayne Airport’s new terminal, a vote by the County Board of Supervisors on whether to create an art program at the terminal has been postponed from next Tuesday until Jan. 16, a county official said Monday.
County officials have targeted Sept. 15 instead of April 1 for the opening of the $50-million passenger terminal. They now say that the original timetable for construction was “too ambitious.”
Postponement of the art program vote will have no “substantive effect” on the plan, said Courtney Wiercioch, an aide to Supervisor Thomas F. Riley, whose district includes the airport. In fact, she said, it may prove advantageous: Airport staff members will have more time to study and refine recommendations made by a 12-member task force.
As envisioned by the task force, the program would include four professionally curated exhibits, performing arts events and the acquisition of two artworks annually. The program would commence with an exhibit to begin the day the new terminal opens.
“Now we don’t have to rush” to put together an opening exhibit by April, Wiercioch said.
Task force chairman Harvey Stearn said Monday that the decision to delay the vote was “reasonable and appropriate.”
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