AGENDA ITEM #
STAFF REPORT
TO: Mayor and City Council DATE: January 20, 2022 FROM: Isaiah Hagerman, City Manager
SUBJECT: Appointment of a City Council Member to the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Board
SPECIFIC REQUEST OR RECOMMENDATION
That the Library Board / City Council nominate and appoint a Mayor Ted Weill to the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Board.
JUSTIFICATION OR INFORMATION
BACKGROUND:
The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is a world-class gathering of the finest writers who contribute to the intellectual vitality of our time. The City of Rancho Mirage, California, welcomes 40 authors and 1,000 readers from around the globe to the Rancho Mirage Library and Observatory each January.
Their mission is to bring our readers a rich and diverse program with topics ranging from politics, history, humor, and health to genre and literary fiction. The writers are all experts in their field, distinguished historians, respected journalists and gifted storytellers. Many are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize as well as New York Times bestsellers.
Mr. Dana Hobart’s resignation from City Council on November 18, 2021, also left a vacancy on the Writers Festival Board which Mr. Hobart had filled since its inception.
Resolution No. 2014-LB-55 Section 4.3 states “Two members of Library Board/City Council, as appointed by a majority of the Library Board/City Council, shall serve as voting members of the RM Writers Festival, Inc. Board of Directors.”
Jamie Kabler, Writers Festival Founder, respectfully requests that Mayor Ted Weill be appointed to fill the vacant seat on the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Board. 11-1