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MEMORANDUM To: From: Date: Re: Pleasanton City Council Deborah Acosta, City Manager Susan Rossi, Finance Director B~ad Hirst, Chair Pleasanton Centennial Celebration October 31, 1994 Final Report - Centennial Celebration The Centennial Celebration is essentially concluded, with the exception of completing the civic art project and the creation/installation of the sidewalk vignettes. The Centennial was the city's, but the celebration was the community's. Please let me state emphatically and up-front that the celebration idea emanated from the Mayor and City Council in 1990 and has continued every day for four years. Your enthusiastic support has been evident, noticed by the entire community and greatly appreciated by all of us 'who v'orked cn the Celebration. The wholehearted support and participation by your City Manager, her Executive Assistant, Public Works Director, City Engineer, Director of Parks and Community Services, Chief of Police, Fire Chief, Superintendent of Parks, Superintendent of Streets, and their entire staffs were essential to the success of the Celebration. At the November 1st Council meeting, it will be my pleasure to return $50,000 that you funded for Celebration seed money. There is-one understanding and one recommendation that accompanies the $50,000. The understanding is that, should William Granizo not be able to complete the art project, the Centennial Celebration has access to an amount necessary for another artist to complete the project. Your City Manager once suggested that the money could be held in trust until the art project was completed. The recommendation, assuming completion of the art project as originally designed, is that you allocate the $50,000 to be invested in the construction of an art piece obelisk in Centennial Park adjacent to the Senior Center which will complete the theme of Centennial Park. 123 Main Street Pleasanton, California 94566 (510) 484-8008