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DATE: December 16, 2014
STAFF REPORT
Library and Museum Services Department
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Mary Beth Hayes, Director of Library & Museum Services
SUBJECT: ACCEPT A GIFT OF $3,000 FROM THE ARCADIA MUSEUM
FOUNDATION FOR PROGRAMS AT THE GILB MUSEUM OF ARCADIA
HERITAGE
Recommendation: Approve
SUMMARY
The Arcadia Museum Foundation ( "Foundation ") wishes to donate $3,000 to the Gilb
Museum of Arcadia Heritage ( "Museum), for special programs. This staff report will
allow the City to accept the donation.
DISCUSSION
The Foundation, as part of its continuing support of the Museum's mission, is donating
$3,000 to be used for the following purposes:
• Genealogy Workshop: Charlotte Bocage, Southern California Genealogical
Society, "Have You Really Looked Everywhere ?"
• Mount Lowe Symposium:
Lecturers: Michael Patris, Mount Lowe Preservation Society, "Mount Lowe Then
and Now"
Barbara Hunter Schultz, Pancho Barnes Biographer, " Pancho and
Friends"
Entertainment: Vin Fiz Flyer Band
• Adult Lecture: Joanne Van Tilburg, UCLA Rock Art Archive /Cotsen Institute for
Archaeology, "Rock Art of the San Gabriel Valleys and Mountains"
• Native American Storyteller: Abel Silvas as Running Grunion
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• Cultural Demonstration: Flintknapping workshop, James Bowden, "A Native
American Toolbox" with soapstone bead - making workshop.
• Arcadia at the Movies:
• Notorious: Director Alfred Hitchcock, Actors Cary Grant and Ingrid
Bergman
• Road to Singapore: Actors Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
• Puppetry Performance /Snow Festival
These programs support the Museum's mission to celebrate the City's rich heritage with
exhibits and educational programs that will encourage community involvement. The
funds donated by the Foundation help the Museum and the City provide a high level of
programming to the citizens of Arcadia beyond the current capacity of the City's General
Fund. Without the ongoing support and financial assistance of the Foundation, the
quality and number of Museum programs would be diminished.
FISCAL IMPACT
Receipt of these funds will provide $3,000 for Museum programs.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council accept a gift of $3,000 from the Arcadia
Museum Foundation for programs at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage.
Approved.
Dominic Lanza
City Manager