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RESOLUTION NO. 2022-XX
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN
BAUTISTA AUTHORIZING THE SAN BENITO COUNTY ARTS
COUNCIL (ARTS COUNCIL) INSTALLATION OF A MURAL ON THE
LUCK LIBRARY
WHEREAS: The City Council has adopted 2035 General Plan Element Policy 16 Historic Preservation and Community Design and the following goals, policies and implementation programs:
• Goal HPCD 3 Celebrated art resources. Objective HPCD 3.1 Create a community that is supportive of the arts.
• Policy HPCD 3.1.1 Promote Cultural Heritage and Arts tourism. • Program HPCD 3.1.1.1 Support Art Walks and ‘Alive after Five’ events on the first Friday or second Saturday of each month.
• Program HPCD 3.1.1.2 Encourage galleries and artisan businesses in the Main Street corridor.
• Program HPCD 3.1.1.3 Coordinate live performances, music, and theatre in restaurants, centers, and outdoor parks, and provide storage and electricity for these endeavors. • Program HPCD 3.1.1.4 Change land use in warehouses area for artist/performer studio space.
• Program HPCD 3.1.1.5 Develop public arts program for trails and complete streets WHEREAS The Arts Council is an entrepreneurial, nimble, collaborative nonprofit that provides arts programming and serves as a connector, investor, advocate and leader for the arts in San Benito County. Founded in 2006, the San Benito County Arts Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which serves as a State-Local Partner to the California Arts Council; WHEREAS The Arts Council is actively engaged in public art projects throughout San Benito County, including within San Juan Bautista, through its support of local artists, art groups and art and cultural organizations and is currently coordinating the Washington Street Underpass art installation as a partner with Caltrans and San Juan Bautista;
WHEREAS The Arts Council “Community Arts Impact Project” is funded by the Arts Council with support from the California Arts Council, a State Agency, and is designed to bring together artists, frontline workers and community members to recognize and process the collective trauma that COVID has inflicted on our rural community, while also celebrating and O
uplifting the ways in which our community has shown resilience, strength and compassion as we navigate these difficult times together;
WHEREAS the Arts Council, along with partner organization El Teatro Campesino selected a Lead Artist to work with the community to prepare a mural concept, finished design and to identify a preferred location, as described in Exhibit 1; NOW BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council determines that the process fulfills the City’s desire for full and active participation by members of the community and that design and location of the project is consistent with General Plan policies referenced herein; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council approves the installation by the Arts Council as depicted in Attachment 1 subject to the following conditions:
1. The installation shall not be painted directly on the library fascia; rather it shall be attached to the Library fascia.
2. The manner of attachment of material to the Library fascia shall be pursuant to plans and diagrams approved by the City Manager pursuant to an Encroachment Permit.
Attachment of material to the library fascia shall be performed to the satisfaction of the City Manager with appropriate assurances in accordance with the issued Encroachment Permit.
3. Removal of the material shall be at the discretion of the City Manager in accordance with provisions of the Encroachment Permit required herein.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of April 2022 by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
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Leslie Q. Jordan, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Don Reynolds, City Manager
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