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CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA STATEMENT
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ITEM nTLE:
RESOLUTION AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR
2009/2010 LIBRARY DEPARTMENT BUDGET BY
APPROPRIATING A ONE-TIME UNANTICIPATED GRANT
REVENUE IN THE AMOUNT OF $6,000 FOR THE CHULA
VISTA HERITAGE MUSEUM EXHIBIT FARMING IN
CHULA VISTA
LIBRARY DIRECTf 'fDL'~
CITY MANAGER /
ASSISTANT CITY! NAGER sr
SUBMITTED BY:
REVIEWED BY:
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SUMlVIARY
The Chula Vista Public Library received a one-time grant award from the County of San
Diego-Community Enhancement Program in the amount of $6,000 for fiscal year 20 I 0 for
the Exhibit Fanning in Chula Vista.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The Environmental Review Coordinator has reviewed the proposed achvlty for
compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and has determined
that there is no possibility that the activity may have a significant effect on the
environment; therefore, pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the State CEQA Guidelines
the activity is not subject to CEQA. Thus, no environmental review is necessary.
RECOMMENDA nON
That Council adopt the resolution.
BOARDS/COM:NIISSION RECOMMENDA nON
Not Applicable
DISCUSSION
The Chula Vista Public Library has been awarded a one-time grant in the amount of
$6,000 from the County of San Diego- Community Enhancement Program. The
Community Enhancement program funds cultural activities, museums, visitors and
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convention bureaus, economic development at the regional and community levels
throughout San Diego County and is awarded annually. The Chula Vista Heritage
Museum had funded two exhibits in previous years through the same program. The
Fiscal Year 2009/2010 award will allow the Library to open a new exhibit in the Heritage
Museum that will chronicle farming and agricultural practices in the early days of Chula
Vista and the South Bay. Through the extensive use of large reproductions of
photographs from the Chula Vista Public Library's local history collection and
information boards, the exhibit will illustrate crops, people, historical farming equipment,
artifacts and farming practices long gone.
It is anticipated that residents of Chula Vista, local authors and researchers,
schoolchildren and visitors to Chula Vista will learn about this now vanished way of life.
The exhibit will be housed in the Chula Vista Heritage Museum on Third Avenue for one
year. The Chula Vista Heritage Museum is open three afternoons a week. Admission is
free.
DECISION Mt\A"ER CONFLICT
Staff has reviewed the property holdings of the City Council and has found no property
holdings within 500 feet of the boundaries of the property which is the subject of this
action.
CURRENT YEAR FISCAL IMP ACT
The one-time grant award in the amount of $6,000 will be appropriated into the current
year Library's supplies and services budget.
ONGOING FISCAL IMPACT
None. One time only award.
ATTACHMENTS
Not applicable
Prepared by: Stephanie Loney, Principal Librarian, Library
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RESOLUTION NO. 2009-
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR
2009/2010 LIBRARY DEPARTMENT BUDGET BY
APPROPRIATING ONE-TIME UNANTICIPATED
GRANT REVENUE IN THE AMOUNT OF $6000 FOR
THE CHULA VISTA HERlT AGE MUSEUM EXHIBIT
FARMING IN CHULA VISTA
WHEREAS, the Chula Vista Public Library received a one-time grant
award trom the County of San DIego' ~ Community Enhancement Program in the
amount of $6000 for fiscal year 2009/20 I 0 for the Exhibit - Farming in Chula
Vista; and
WHEREAS, this grant will allow the Library to initiate a new exhibit in
the Heritage Museum that will chronicle farming and agricultural practices in the
early days of Chula Vista and the South Bay; and
WHEREAS, tbro,ugh the extensive use of large reproductions of
photographs from the Chula Vista Pu~lic Library's local history collection and
information boards, the exhibit will illustrate crops, people, historical farming
equipment, artifacts and farming practices long gone; and
WHEREAS, the exhibit will be housed in the Chula Vista Heritage
Museum on Third Avenue for one year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Chula Vista does hereby amend the fiscal year 2009/2010 Library
Department budget by appropriating one-time grant revenue in the amount of
$6000 for the Chula Vista Heritage Museum Exhibit Farming in Chula Vista.
Presented by:
Approved as to form by:
Betty Waznis
Director of Library
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