RIVERSIDE City Council Memorandum
City of Arts & Innovation
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DATE: APRIL 4, 2023 FROM: CITY CLERK WARDS: ALL
SUBJECT: 2022 CITY SPIRIT AWARD
ISSUE:
Select community members) that exemplifies community spirit, good citizenship, and dedication to enhancing the quality of life in the City for the 2022 City Spirit Award.
RECOMMENDATION:
The Mayor's Nominating and Screening Committee recommends the City Council select a community member(s) for consideration of the 2022 City Spirit Award to honor their extraordinary deeds and community spirit, good citizenship, and dedication to enhancing the quality of life in the City.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION:
On March 7, 2023, the Mayor's Nominating and Screening Committee, with Chair Lock Dawson and Members Cervantes and Perry present and Member Conder absent, referred the following nominees to the City Council for consideration for the 2022 City Spirit Award:
The City Spirit Award recipient will be acknowledged in erected on the wall of fame during a City Council meeting in May 2023
2022 CITY SPIRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS
Recommended by: Nominee
Mayor Lock Dawson Lalit Acharya (posthumously)
Residente of Eastside Active in Leadership: Norma
Moyoroqui, Griselda Martínez, Maria Ochoa, Louise
Matus, and Jackie McNulty
Councilmember Cervantes
Councilmember Fierro Michael Anderson
Councilmember Conder Duane and Kelly Roberts
Councilwoman Plascencia Gabe Maldonado
Councilmember Hemenway Francisca Beltran
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BACKGROUND:
The Mayor and City Council have honored a community member each year since establishing the City Spirit Award in 1995. The prior award recipients are listed below.
CITY SPIRIT
AWARD
RECIPIENTS
1995 Dickey DeLoss 2009 Cindy Roth
1996 Rich Biber 2010 Kathy Allavie
1997 Michael Goldware 2011 Jane Block
1998 Rose Mayes 2012 Stan Morrison
1999 Rita Norton 2013 Debbie Guthrie
2000 Vic Miceli 2014 Gordon Bourns
2001 Daniel Hantman 2015 Anthony Rivera
2002 William Gavitt 2016 Henry Coil
2003 Dell Roberts 2017 Ruben and Diana Ayala
2004 Stan Brown 2018 • Brian Jaramillo
2005 Jim Erickson 2019 Zack Earp
2006 Natividad Fuentes 2020 Ofelia Valdez-Yeager
2007 : Damon Castillo 2021 Lynn Heatley
2008 San Huang
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT:
The City Council's selection of a community member for consideration for the 2021 City Spirit Award contributes to Strategic Plan Priority #5 - High Performing Government and Goal 5.3 - Enhance communication and collaboration with community members to improve transparency, build public trust, and encourage shared decision-making.
This item aligns with the 5 Cross-Cutting Threads as follows:
1. Community Trust - The City Spirit Award recipient selection process is transparent and promotes civic engagement by recognizing community members whose activities and actions serve the public interest, benefit the City's diverse populations, and result in the greater public good.
2. Equity - The City Spirit Award promotes equity as it is a citywide honor, and nominees may be chosen from all Wards. The positive impact of the nominees' extraordinary deeds and community spirit, good citizenship, and dedication to enhancing the quality of life in the City benefit the entire community.
3. Fiscal Responsibility - This item is neutral toward this Cross-Cutting Thread.
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4. Innovation - The City Spirit Award promotes recognition of community members whose contributions include building collaborative partnerships and embracing adaptive processes to meet the community changing needs and prepare for the future.
5. Sustainability and Resiliency - The City Spirit Award promotes recognition of community member's contribution to the community's needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future and ensuring the City's capacity to persevere, adapt and grow during good and difficult times alike.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact associated with this report.
Prepared by: Donesia Gause, City Clerk
Concurs with:
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ATRICIA LOCK DAWSON, Chair
Mayor's Nominating and Screening Committee
Attachment: Biographies of Nominees