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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993-01-25 93-122 RESOLVECOUNCIL ACTION i$ Item No. 93-122 Date danuary #. 1993 Stem/Subject: Encouraging Efforts of The Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arts to Establish a 'Maine School of Performing Arts" in Downtown Bangor Responsible Department: Legal By letter dated December 21, 1992, Daryl W. Modes, founder and co-director of the Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arts, has asked the City Council to formally endorse The Northern Conservatory's efforts to establish a 'Maine School for the Performing Arts" in downtown Bangor. The proposed school would combine a number of functions, including a State-wide performing arts high school similar to the New York City high school for the performing arts depicted in the television show 'Pass." The attached Resolve would formally endorse the Northern Conservatory's efforts to establish the proposed school. tment Head G ag City Manager Associated Information: Resolve, Letter dated 12/21/92 Finance Director Legal Approval: °telwJff6% City Solicitor Intx'od wed For Passage First Reading Referral Page of 93-122 Assigned to Councilor Frankel January 25, 1993 CITY OF BANGOR RITLEI AeS0lUg. Encouraging Efforts of The Northern Co.rnarvatary . ..__ _.__.. of Music and the Performing arta to Establish a "Maine School of Performing Arts" in Downtown Bangor BY Bu av CoanoN of Me City ofBaapor: RESOLVED. WHEREAS, the Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arte is cnrently celebrating its tenth year of providing performing arts training and education in downtown Bangor; and WHEREAS, more than 60,000 students have received instruction or have attended classes offered by The Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arta during its ten years of existence in downtown Bangor; and WHEREAS, the Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arts has proposed to greatly expand the range and scope of its operations by establiehing a "Mine School for the Perf000ing Arts - at a suitable location 1n downtown Bangor; and WHEREAS, the continued presence and successful expansion of the Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arte in downtown Bangor will provide a significant cultural and educational reasource for citizens of the City of Bangor and the surrounding Penobscot region, NOW, THEREFORE, By the City Council of the City of Bangor, be it RESOLVED, THAT the City Council of the City of Bangor hereby strongly endorses and encourages efforts of the Northern Conservatory to establish a "Mine School for the Performing Arts - at a downtown Banger location; and be it further RESOLVED, THAT the City Council hereby endorses the Northern Conservatory's fund-raising efforts in support of the proposed school; and encourages all private supporters of the performing arts in Bangor to make liberal contributions in support of those efforts; and be it further ABSOLVED, THAT City of Bangor development staff are hereby directed to assist the Northern Conservatory in identifying a suitable location in downtown Bangor for the proposed school. IN CITY COUNCIL January 25, 1993 Suspension of the Rules Passed Moved to First Item on the Agenda. Resolve Passed. 93-122 BE50LVE Encouraging Efforts of The Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arts to Establish a "Maine School of Performing Arts" inn�Downtown n /Bangor �/LdN� 93-122 _E QOT2SEgVAVORW OF MUS1 - dnO the peRFo Rminq ARCS A Non-Rofit Corporatwn Harlow Sueet jSuite 9. 3rd Floo(), BIA10r. Maws Did01 (20) 947-8111 12/21/92 Mayor Sohn Bragg Bangor City Council Members Bangor City Hall Bangor, -Maine 09901 War Mayor Bragg am City Council Mambers The directors and staff of the Northern Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arts respectfully ask that you review and then publicly endorse an idea for the forming and development of the °Maine School for the Performing Arts", to be located in downtown Bangor. Your endorsement could become the foundation on which a campaign for fuming such a project would begin, as well as an impetus for developing downtown Bangor as a center for increased coumusity involvement. Here is a summary of key points in our proposal: The school would be housed in the downtown azee through acquisition am renovation of one of a number of possible sites. The school would be a not -fox -profit organization operating under the corporate name,' ne Maine School for the Performing Arts'. The Maine School for the Performing Arts would consist of three autonomous schools as follows: I. a school of music (the Northern Conservatory of Music wand the Performing Arts) 2. a school of dance 3. a school of theatre arts Each school would operate independently of the other while sharing equally in costs of overhead for the building and then combining forces for the purpose of performances (i.e. the Bangor Opera House as a Performance location). As an important adjunct to the school, a high school for the performing arts would provide students from around the state the Opportunity to earn a diploma while concentrating on specific performing arts areas. She entire organization would have as its focus not only the emphasis on family as the central issue in education, but on values that exemplify the _acceptance of everyene regardless of their status.' -2- 93-122 we feel such a school is realistic under the following conditions: 1. Schools with established raPutatlons and clientele would be included under the corporate umbrella respectfully. 2. Enough funding would be secured such that the three schools could operate free from debt arevice. 3. The Maine School for the performing Arts would be granted couplete exemption floe Bengal Pxopetty tax. 4. The school would operate year round. In more specific terms, we kindly ask the Bangor City Council to help us in the following ways: - 1. Make suggestions and reconaendations as to an appropriate site. 2. Make suggestions as to people who may want to take an active role in obtaining funding. 3. oY the utmost importance, we need the Council to publicly endorse this idea at an upcoming city council meeting, i.e. the second meeting in gumwxy or the filet mending in pabruary. our intention is to invite the news media to this meeting for the express purpose of asking guaations and than reporting, in detail, our proposal. You should know that we will be asking Senators Cohen and Mitchell, Coa2resewomen Sawe and others for their eadorsements as well. This dream comes p a result nd of Can years of lard walk a dedication by a foo people tucked away an the thud floor of e Maslow Street. We pray that you will demonstrate the same degree of respect and love for wx dream as the thousands of students who terve attended the conservatory have. Th1a, Cououncilit Manbexs, is from aux hearts to theixa. I as, Respectfully, ! Daryl w. Modes founder and co- director