DATE:
September 9, 2025
CATEGORY:
Consent
DEPT.:
City Clerk’s Office
TITLE: Visual Arts Committee Reestablishing
Resolution
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Reestablishing the Visual Arts Committee and Prescribing Anew the Duties, Responsibilities, Powers, and Membership Thereof, to be read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).
BACKGROUND
On July 10, 1990, the City Council established the Visual Arts Committee by minute order. To comply with the requirement laid out in City Council Policy K- 2, Boards, Commissions, and Committees that all bodies not established by the City Charter shall be established by ordinance or resolution, staff has memorialized the duties and responsibilities, membership and qualifications, and terms of office of the Visual Arts Committee in the resolution attached to this report. This does not introduce any substantive changes to the way the body currently operates and only serves to formalize the establishment of the Visual Arts Committee by resolution of the City Council.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no budgetary impact associated with this recommendation.
LEVINE ACT
California Government Code Section 84308 (also known as the Levine Act) prohibits city officials from participating in any proceeding involving a “license, permit, or other entitlement for use” if the official has received a campaign contribution exceeding $500 from a party, participant, or agent of a party or participant within the last 12 months. The Levine Act is intended to prevent financial influence on decisions that affect specific, identifiable persons or participants. For more
Visual Arts Committee Reestablishing Resolution
September 9, 2025
information see the Fair Political Practices Commission website: www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/pay-to- play-limits-and-prohibitions.html
Please see below for information about whether the recommended action for this agenda item is subject to or exempt from the Levine Act.
EXEMPT FROM THE LEVINE ACT
☒ General policy and legislative actions
ALTERNATIVES
1. Decline to adopt the resolution.
2. Provide other direction.
PUBLIC NOTICING
Agenda posting.
Prepared by:
Heather Glaser
City Clerk
Approved by:
Audrey Seymour Ramberg
Assistant City Manager
Attachment: 1. Resolution