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CITY OF WEST CHICAGO
PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
ITEM TITLE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: 4. A,
Mexican Independence Day 2022
Final Report FILE NUMBER:
Mexican Cultural Center
COMMITTEE AGENDA DATE: November 28,
2022
COUNCIL AGENDA DATE:
STAFF REVIEW: Tom Dabareiner
APPROVED BY CITY ADMINISTRATOR:
Michael Guttman SIGNATURE
ITEM SUMMARY:
The Mexican Cultural Center (MCC) submitted the attached documentation of expenses for the
Mexican Independence Day Festival that took place September 10-11, 2022. The Festival was
cancelled on Sunday, September 11 because of weather.
The City provided the MCC with $11,500 per the Funding Agreement (22-R-0023) as well as
$2,500 in matching contributions. The final report shows that $19,035.89.99 was spent. The final
$500 is due since contractual requirements have been met.
Two deposits for bands that were made in 2021 were applied to 2022. Please see U and W for
more information.
ACTIONS PROPOSED:
Recommend approval of the final report submitted by the MCC for MID 2022.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION:

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Dear City of West Chicago,
The Mexican Cultural Center would like to thank the City of West Chicago for the past years of
support to honor the cultural heritage of West Chicago through Mexican Independence Day.
We were so happy to return to an in-person event this year after celebrating virtually the last
two years. Although we were hopeful the weather would hold out, we did have to cancel the
programming that was scheduled for Sunday, a big loss to the community, but with the bad
weather we made the hard decision to keep the community safe.
Despite not being able to celebrate the normal Sunday line up of El Grito and more downtown
performances, we had a wonderful Saturday with dancing horses, vendors and crowds
downtown and musical performances. Our vendors and performers were happy to return and
we look forward to celebrating fully next year. The community also came out and were excited
to be able to come together. As in past years we had sponsors supplement the generous funding
from the City and welcomed a brand new sponsor this year in LakeShore Recycling.
We are continually grateful for the partnership of the City over the past seven years. We look
forward to strengthening this event as we build off of past years’ successes and other exciting
programming we are doing in the county to benefit the people of West Chicago.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about this report.
Fernando Ramirez, President

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Expense -19,035.89
City of West Chicago $ 11,500.00
, City of West Chicago $ 2,500.00
‘Comcast : ; $ 1,000.00
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‘Lake shore recycling $2,500.00
: _ $ 500.00 |
Total as _ 7 $ 19,000.00 .