A Motion will be presented at the first regular Council meeting in September. To the effect, the town retain the services of a curator with credentials sufficient to establish a museum, organise a collection provide advice to Council, guidance and leadership to the Aurora Historical Society and to volunteers willing to participate in the operation of a modern museum.
The motion is based on thirty- years of precedent that the Town of Aurora honours its heritage will continue to promote awareness to residents, young,old and new, of the town's proud history by provision of a museum and ancillary services.
Since 1976. Aurora invested millions of dollars in repairs to restore and maintain the structure of Church Street school. It was to stand as a symbol of the values of the founding families who struggled and sacrificed to create a place where families could grow and prosper..
In 2006 Aurora Council committed $2.3 million dollars to restore the interior of the building with a state of the art museum design funded by the Aurora Historical Society and adopted by Council.
A further $770 thousand heritage grant was obtained and used for the same purpose
Restoration of Church Street School has been complete since two years.
The town provides an annual budget in excess of $340.thousand dollars to its operation. In addition to providing maintenance services at a value of $147,thousand dollars.
The facility has a staff . No curator.
The town provides a grant of $50. thousand to the Aurora Historical Society, traditionally understood to fund curator services for the town's museum.
Today, no museum exists in the Church Street School. The collection is stored in boxes in the basement
Space has been apparently been provided to the Historical Society to "catalogue" the collection.
No curator is available to establish and organise the museum collection in its intended home.
No sign indicates the service will resume now or in the future, unless the town takes positive steps to make it happen.
The purpose of the motion is for the town to retain the services of a curator with sufficient credentials to provide advice to council, with the intent of restoring the museum to its rightful home.
To establish and organise the collection.
To provide guidance and leadership to the Aurora Historical Society and other volunteers who may choose to participate in the operation of the community's museum.
The over-all aim and objective is continued awareness of town history, respect for the work and sacrifice of the founding families who provided a concrete set of values and principles to guide its future which we are currently enjoying.
Funds are provided in 2011 and have been provided in previous budgets sufficient to cover the cost.
Church Street School continues to exist because of this community's commitment to respect its heritage and values.
It is this Council's authority and responsibility to ensure that happens.
Thursday 1 September 2011
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3 comments:
With the history of this topic, I wonder how successful the search for the new curator will be.
A difficult one for the Mormac Triad to target. They
must be hard at work on the script to make sure that
someone belonging to the Entitled Group gets the
power. Good luck to you, Evelyn.
Its about time someone decided to act , to bad it has to be you all the time
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