For City Council Meeting [February 11, 2020]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Manager
FROM: Perry Brents, Director of Community Services
Title
Request City Council approval of a two-day event and adding Run Whatcha Brung and Taste of Rialto to the City's Special Events Calendar for Fiscal Year 2019-2020.
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BACKGROUND:
In the City Council meeting of December 10, 2019, the Rialto City Council adopted a Special Events Policy and identified City Sponsored or Co-Sponsored special events by title and approved a budget resolution to appropriate specific funding amounts for each event.
City Council in their deliberations decided to hold on its consideration of the Run Whatcha Brung and Taste of Rialto from the list of formally recognized events sponsored or co-sponsored by the City. Event organizers are asking that City Council re-consider their decision and place the events back onto the City's Annual Calendar of Special Events.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION:
The City's Calendar of City Sponsored and Co-Sponsored events are those events utilizing City resources and have been 1) named by title and approved through City Council budget resolution and 2) have been determined by City Council to serve a public purpose. Rialto Rotary Club is the Event Organizer for Run Whatcha Brung. The Rialto Chamber of Commerce is the Event Organizer for Taste of Rialto. Rialto Rotary Club is requesting that City Council consider placing both Run Whatcha Brung and Taste of Rialto back onto the City's Calendar of Special Events as a singular City Co-sponsored event.
The event is proposed to be held on Foothill Boulevard on Friday evening May 29, and on Riverside Drive on Saturday May 30. The event routes and times would be the same as the 2019 event and includes various street closures as in 2019. Staff did discuss with Rotary representatives the possibility of holding the event both days on Riverside Drive as a means to lower City-related costs; h...
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