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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />FEBRUARY 4, 2013 <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />TITLE: APPROVED <br />AGREEMENT WITH THE CALIFORNIA ? As Recommended <br />COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ? As Amended <br />APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENT FOR El Ordinance on Reading <br />El Ordinance on 2 n "d Reading <br />LIBRARY SERVICES ENHANCEMENT ? Implementing Resolution <br />? Set Public Hearing For <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute an agreement with the <br />California Council for the Humanities in the amount of $10,000 for a Community Stories <br />grant to fund The Raitt Street Chronicles: A Survivors Oral History project. <br />2. Approve an appropriation adjustment recognizing $10,000 from the California Council for <br />the Humanities in the revenue account (no. 15011002 52040) and appropriating same to <br />expenditure account (no. 15011160 various). <br />DISCUSSION <br />Community Stories is a competitive grant program of Cal Humanities, a non-profit that promotes <br />the humanities in California. This program is intended to enable communities to voice, record, <br />and share histories, many previously untold or little known. It is awarded to projects that give <br />expression to the extraordinary variety of histories and experiences of California's places and <br />people to ensure that the stories can be widely shared. These narratives help us find our <br />commonalities, appreciate our differences, and learn something new about how to live well <br />together. <br />The Santa Ana Public Library, partnering with Cal State Fullerton's Grant Central Art Center, <br />has been awarded a $10,000 grant from Cal Humanities' Community Stories Program to <br />support its project, "Raitt Street Chronicles: A Survivors Oral History". During the next year, the <br />two organizations will cooperate to train Santa Ana teens to collect oral histories from the <br />Townsend/Raitt neighborhood. Teens will collect, archive, and share the stories of survivors of <br />violence from a community that has met, faced and overcome problems together. The video <br />interviews will be available for the public to view on various social media, and the final product of <br />20B-1