Neighborhood groups fight the transfer of Southwest Museum artifacts to the Autry Center in Griffith Park.
Showing that merger is not necessarily the end for cultural institutions, papers as far away as New York are following a dispute between Friends of the Southwest Museum (likely an ad hoc group, no Form 990) and the Autry National Center (EIN 95-3947744 Form 990), which acquired the Southwest Museum (EIN 95-1661698 Final Form 990) in 2003. The Autry has decided to close the Southwest until 2010 and convert most of the building to other (educational) uses. The artifacts will be moved and displayed at the Autry Center in Griffith Park.
The Autry National Center is not huge, but it was able to bail out the basically bankrupt Southwest Museum. The LA Times reports that the Autry Center had 165,000 visitors last year, 50,000 of them non-paying school kids; the Southwest had 40,000, half of them from school trips. The budget for the combined operations is just under $20 million. CEO John Gray takes home $208,000 for running an organization with a staff of 166.
The neighborhood battle is driven by Nicole Possert, who appears in articles in the local press (LA City Beat and LA Weekly). The LA Weekly story from last year has an interesting perspective on how the Southwest Museum fits into a more down home "north-south" cultural axis that contrasts with the "east-west" axis of the big-time LA museums like the Getty. Reporter Robert Green contrasts the vanishing history associated with second tier cultural institutions in many older American cities, in this case the story of Charles Lummis, with the pop-culture orientation of the Autry Center.
For the technically inclined, I have extracted the merger agreement between Southwest and the Autry Center, available here as a PDF File 896Kb. Noteworthy are the provisions for staff organization and accession, in particular maintaining separate operations and providing that with minor exceptions the collection of the Southwest Museum can not be deaccessioned until 2013, and then only by 3/4 vote of the trustees.
複数の政府関係者が明らかにした。外交安全保障政策で助言を得るためとしているが、政府の役職に野党関係者を起用するのは極めて異例だ。国会対策で焦点となる公明党との関係強化を模索する狙いもあるようだが、民主、公明両党間の正式ルートで協議した痕跡はあまり見えず、“民公”接近につながるかどうかは微妙だ。
関係者によると、高野氏の起用は、藤村官房長官が高野氏に「外交機能を強化したい」と打診した。政府高官は3日、「外交関係のアドバイザーだ。国連平和維持活動(PKO)の問題も含め、広く意見をうかがう」と説明した。ただ、政府内にも「公明党とのパイプ強化を狙ったものだろう」との見方が強い。
Posted by: バーバリーマフラー | November 04, 2011 at 04:39 AM
ティンバーランド12日に判明した政府の社会保障分野の一体改革素案(骨子案)は、来年の法案提出を検討してきた受診時定額負担制度の見送りを容認するなど、負担増を先送りしようとする民主党の主張に大幅に譲歩する内容となった。公務員の特権に切り込むことが期待された被用者年金一元化でも、公務員の優遇措置の存続に道を開く文言が盛り込まれた。「公平な負担」を旗印とした社会保障改革の看板は大きくゆがみつつある。
ティンバーランド骨子案は、病院を訪れるたびに患者が100円を上乗せして支払う受診時定額負担制度について「(導入見送りを掲げた)民主党ワーキングチームの報告を踏まえる」と記した。70~74歳の窓口負担の2割への引き上げでは「平成24年度の対応については調整」と、その後の引き上げに含みを残したが、党側の猛反発で撤回に追いやられるのは確実な情勢だ。
Posted by: ティンバーランド | December 12, 2011 at 10:23 PM