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city Council Meeting 6-26-90
Santa Monica, california
RESOLUTION NUMBER 8051(CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA SUPPORTING REAUTHORIZATION
OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
WHEREAS, the arts enhance our quality of life by helping to
define a nation's and a community's ~dentity, values and
heritage,
contributing to cross-cuI tural communication and
developing creative problem-solving skills; and
WHEREAS, public investment in the arts stimulates economic
growth,
attracts
business
and
corporate
investment
to
communities, promotes downtown and neighborhood revitalization,
spurs tourism, enhances the image of our communities and nation,
and encourages innovation and inspiration in society; and
WHEREAS, the National Endowment for the Arts' twenty-five
year stellar history of promoting creativity and cultural
vitality has enabled a flourishing of the arts to reach every
state and community and made the arts available to every citizen
of our nation; and
WHEREAS, in its twenty-five year history the National
Endowment for the Arts has made over 85,000 grants and funded the
presentation or creation of over 1,000,000 images of which only
25 projects have become controversial; and
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WHEREAS, the restrictive language approved by Congress in
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1990 would have the effect of promoting censorship and inhibiting
creativity at the expense of quality within the arts community,
and gives Congress the power to micro-manage the Endowment and
define obscenity rather than the courts; and
WHEREAS, the Endowment's citizen-involved panel system,
local matching requirements for grants and reviews by the
Presidentially-appointed National Council on the Arts and its
Chairperson provide appropriate checks and balances with regard
to federal funding for the arts; and
WHEREAS, President Bush supports reauthorization of the
National Endowment for the Arts without restrictive language and
has submitted legislation to that effect in Congress; and
WHEREAS,
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
in sponsoring
legislation to establish the National Endowment for the Arts,
proclaimed, "We fully recognize that no government can call
artistic excellence into existence.
It must flow from the
quality of the society and the good fortune of the nation. Nor
should any government seek to restrict the freedom of the artist
to pursue goals his goals in his own way.
Freedom is an
essential condition for the artist, and in proportion, if freedom
is diminished so is the prospect of artistic achievement,"
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
The city council of the city of Santa Monica
resolves to support reauthorization of the National Foundation on
the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 and continued funding for the
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National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the Institute of Museum service for FY-1991
without restrictive language.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be
in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS V
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 26th day of June, 1990.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 8051(CCS)
was duly adopted by the City council of the city of Santa Monica
at a meeting thereof held on June 26th, 1990 by the following
council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Abdo, Finkel, Genser, Jennings,
Katz, Reed, Mayor Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
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