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9 CITY OF - IPIVERSIDE Cultural Heritage Board Memorandum Community & Economic Development Department Planning Division 3900 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92522 1 Phone: (951) 826 -5371 1 RiversideCA.gov TO: CULTURAL HERITAGE BOARD MEETING DATE: April 19, 2017 FROM: HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER ITEM NO: 3 WARD: CITYWIDE SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION OF RECOMMENDATION FOR ADOPTION OF CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY AND FINDINGS - CHINESE AMERICANS IN RIVERSIDE: HISTORIC CONTEXT STATEMENT, 1868 -1975 RECOMMENDATION: That the Cultural Heritage Board (CHB) recommend that the City Council approve the attached findings, thereby adopting the cultural resources survey - Chinese Americans in Riverside: Historic Context Statement, 1868 -1975. BACKGROUND: The City of Riverside received a $40,000 Certified Local Government (CLG) grant in 2015 to prepare a citywide Chinese American historic context statement for identifying and evaluating resources associated with Chinese Americans in Riverside and educational materials. The CHB staff partnered with the Riverside Metropolitan Museum (RMM), California State University San Bernardino ( CSUSB), and the University of California Riverside (UCR) Public History Department and hired Historic Resources Group (HRG), who assigned M. Rosalind Sagara, who meets the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Professional Qualifications and experienced in Chinese American history, to complete the intensive -level study. This project met four important objectives of the City General Plan's Historic Preservation Element, which are further described in the findings in Exhibit 1: • Objective HP -2.0: to continue an active program to identify, interpret and designate the City's cultural resources • Objective HP -3.0: to promote the City's cultural resources as a means to enhance the City's identity as an important center of Southern California history • Objective HP -4.0: To fully integrate the consideration of cultural resources as a major aspect of the City's planning, permitting and development activities • Objective HP -6.0: to actively pursue funding for historic preservation programs ANALYSIS: The City's partnership included additional coordination with the Riverside Public Library, CSUSB and UCR student research assistants /interns, community volunteers, as well as local and cultural experts, including such organizations as Asian - Pacific Cultural Association and the Gom -Benn Village Society of Los Angeles.