DATE: June 6, 2023
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Darlene Bradley, Director Library & Museum Services
SUBJECT: GIFT OF $13,900 FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM FOR
MUSEUM PROGRAMMING, MARKETING, AND ARCHIVAL SUPPLIES
CEQA: Not a Project
Recommendation: Accept
SUMMARY
The Friends of the Museum are offering a gift of $13,900 to the Gilb Museum to provide programming, promotional materials, community history kits, support for preservation workshops, and archival supplies specifically for the Floretta K. Lauber collection for the Museum. This generous donation will help further the educational programming, artifact, and collection preservation program, and help publicize the Museum at community events. It is recommended that the City Council accept this gift.
DISCUSSION
The Friends of the Museum, as part of its ongoing mission to support the Museum’s goals and objectives, are donating $13,900 to the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage. The Friends of the Museum board members raise this money through memberships, fundraising through the Ralphs Give Back program, as well as donations, in support of the Museum. The Museum is the only city entity that collects, preserves, and recognizes Arcadia’s rich heritage, past and present, for the community in a shared public setting.
Through carefully curated collections, exhibits, and public educational programs, the Museum shares the City’s diverse history, past and present, with the community, inviting the community in to discover, create dialog, provide a place for reflection, and a connected and shared identity for learning and discussion.
The funds donated by the Friends of the Museum help the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage and the City of Arcadia provide the Museum with funds to purchase some much- needed programming, marketing, and archival supplies to help further its mission beyond the current capacity of the City’s general fund. Without the ongoing support of the Friends
Donation in the amount of $13,900 from the Friends of the Museum June 6, 2023
of the Museum, the array of services, programs, collection care, and preservation would be diminished in quality and quantity now and for future generations.
Presently, all gifts over $1,000 are subject to approval by the City Council pursuant to City Charter Section 1218.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
The proposed action does not constitute a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), and it can be seen with certainty that it will have no impact on the environment. Thus, this matter is exempt under CEQA.
FISCAL IMPACT
Receipt of this $13,900 gift will provide adequate funding to continue the important community education and preservation of collections ensuring use of proper archival storage to maintain and preserve the collections for present and future exhibits, displays, and more.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended the City Council accept a gift of $13,900 from the Friends of the Museum for museum programming, marketing, and archival supplies.