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SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
January 10, 2017
City Council
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Madam Mayor and City Councilors:
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Thriving communities invest in preserving and celebrating their histories. The board, staff, and
members of the History Center believe that the city's future will be built on the bedrock of our
shared experience. The process of creating a complex and diverse local history will forge lasting
connections between San Luis Obispo's many ethnic, religious, and cultural groups and honor the
important contributions of each.
We hope the city will make the preservation and interpretation of its history a priority in the coming
budget cycle by supporting the work of its own Cultural Heritage Committee and Jack House
Committee; by continuing and expanding its partnership with the History Center, the Railroad
Museum, the Veteran's Museum, the Mission Museum, Cal Poly Special Collections and Archives,
the San Luis Obispo County Genealogical Society, and other local history organizations; by working
with the San Luis Obispo Downtown Association to improve our historic downtown while retaining
its unique sense of place; and by allocating resources to care for the city's own historic properties.
The History Center also supports the creation of a downtown arts and cultural district, including
live/work housing for local artists, and an eventual application to the state cultural district program.
We are excited to see new visions evolve for Mission Plaza and Downtown San Luis Obispo. In
particular, the History Center strongly supports new buildings for the San Luis Obispo Museum of
Art and the Little Theatre. Later this year, after the city's new concept plans have been approved, we
hope to work with the city to develop a memorandum of understanding for the History Center's own
much-needed expansion into the adjacent surface parking lot at Monterey and Broad Streets.
The History Center partnered with the City and County of San Luis Obispo more than sixty years
ago to create its history museum and begin an ongoing collection of local history. With your
continued support, we can transform history into a community -wide collaboration, giving voice to all
San Luis Obispans. Help us build the resources that our citizens can use to preserve and honor the
past, even as we create new history that will inform and inspire future generations.
Sincerely,
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Eva Ulz
President Executive Director
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
( historycenterslo.org