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City of Omaha
Jim Suttle,Mayor
Honorable President
and Members of the City Council,
Attached for consideration is a Resolution appointing Jose Garcia to the Landmarks Heritage
Preservation Commission. Mr. Garcia is fulfilling the remaining term of Sarah Burt, who
resigned.
A copy of Mr. Garcia's Résumé is attached for your information.
Your favorable consideration of this request will be appreciated.
Sincerely,
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Jim Suttle, Mayor
City of Omaha
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Jose F. Garcia
816 North 34th st(for 37 years)
Omaha, Nebraska
razatimes@gmail.com
Born in Kansas City in 1945, I am at the age of sixty-five. The father of 2 boys, I have been married to the
former Linda Perez for going on 34 years.
I lived in the Mexican barrio of the West Side, raised by my paternal Grandmother until I graduated
from Manual High Vocational School in 1963. The next three.years I worked for Macy's, Aetna Insurance
and finally took a job with Commerce Trust Company as an IDP clerk. At the same time, I attended
Metropolitan Junior College, working towards an Associate's Degree in Banking until 1966 when I
entered the U.S.Army.
After a three year enlistment, part of it in Southeast Asia, I returned to civilian life and began my
University training at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where I was awarded a Bachelors Degree
in Psychology in 1972. I also involved myself in student government,social and cultural politics and
worked 20 hours a week for the United States Postal Department during this time period.
Upon graduating, I took a position as a Program Developer with the Kansas Council of Farm Workers and
Low Income People, in Garden City, Kansas. Over my one year employment, I was responsible for a
quarter of a million dollars worth of Federal funding dollars for a variety of C.A.P. projects in western
Kansas.
In 1973, I returned to Kansas City, married and began working for the Xerox Corporation,thus beginning
a point in my life that was beset by economic and personal occurrences that in 1976 prompted my move
from Kansas City to Omaha, Nebraska, on July 4th, 1976.
Having divorced my 15t wife, I married the former Linda Perez Rivera and began a series of positions that
included the Chicano Awareness Center,Adoptive Hypnosis Center and for a time,when my 15t son was
born in 1977, a stay at home Dad.
In 1980, I was hired by the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, holding a variety of positions to include
management until I took a New York Dock buyout in 1992, and left the railroad.
Between 1992 and 1997, my wife Linda and I opened an art cultural center on 13th street and because
the buyout included a monthly salary for a period of five years, became active promoting arts, history
and culture that reflected Chicano Mexican American society and tradition.
In 1998,the buyout agreement terminated and I returned to gainful employment with the Union Pacific
Railroad after a short Christmas stint with the United States Postal Service. During my tenure beginning
as a crew dispatcher, promoted to a manager in 2002, I retired from railroad service in 2007, at the age
of 62. Through this period of time I was active in Community activities supporting cultural, artistic and
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organizational dynamics and engaging management techniques, strategies and processes in the design
and implementation of exhibits, presentations as well as encouraging collaborative efforts within and
without the Mexican American community in the State. Since 1977, I have remained active in
promoting and encouraging community cultural arts and historical expression during National Hispanic
Month.
My wife and I have over the years managed, assessed and maintained a growing collection of images,
literature, periodicals, books, artifacts,vintage and historical documents and photographs along with art
objects and materials identified as part of the Mexican and Chicano experience of the Americas.
Of particular interest welling from my close and personal association with South Omaha, its buildings,
people, streets, has been a sentiment for urban settings and the interaction between people and
structures. Learning how both have changed and affected each other through the history of the City has
been somewhat of a passion.
Since I am not a Man of letters, I attended the school of experience by becoming a Board Member of
the Douglas County Historical Society to gain insight and experience which has in 2010, resulted in the
formation of the Mexican American Historical Society of the Midlands.
Acting as their volunteer Executive Director, MAHSM has become the prime depository of historical •
records identified and associated with the history of Mexican American peoples in South Omaha.
It is at this vocation that I am involved in daily.
I am also a member of the Latino Futuro Fund,the Latino Coalition of Nebraska,a board member of the
Literacy Council of Omaha, Nebraska Story Arts,and a long time member of the American G.I. Forum.
I have for years shared my knowledge and experience of this City with audiences. I feel that much work
needs to be done to initiate preservation activity up and down the 24th street corridor, especially east of
24th&Vinton, and between F and Q streets on 24th st.
I lament the fact that the architectural legacy of our City as it relates to the builders that were
responsible for both housing and commercial building stock within the neighborhoods and its
business/commercial sites is not well understood.
And so I end this narrative. I plan to remain active in the historical and cultural life of my City and look
forward to the adventures and challenges that lay ahead.
Sincerely,
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BOARD/COMMISSION CANDIDATE RESPONSE FORM
In consideration for appointment to the
I submit the following information:
Name of Board or Commission:
Last name: Garcia First name: Jose' Middle Initial: F.
Home address: 816 North 34th st
City: Omaha State: Ne Zip:68131-1934
Home Phone: 402-651-0442 Work Phone: none 'Fax: none
E-mail: jose@mahsmidlands.org or razatimes@gmail.com
City Council District: Sex: M Race: 3rd generation Mexican American
Business name: Mexican American Historical Society of the Midlands
Job title: Executive Director
Business address: 4913 S. 25th st '
City: Omaha State: Ne Zip 68107
Where would you like us to direct your correspondence? (check box)
Home (x ) or( ) Business
(x ) My appointment to the above named Board or Commission and term of service to the City would not
conflict with my professional or personal interests.
Name — Print or Type Jose Francisco Garcia
Date:_3.23.11
Please return this completed form along with a copy of your resume to:
Barb Velinsky
Community Director
Bvelinsky@ci.omaha.ne.us
or .
1819 Farnam Street, Suite 300
Omaha, Nebraska 68183
Fax: 402-444-6059
an American Historical Society of the Midlands.
Acting as their volunteer Executive Director, MAHSM has become the prime depository of historical •
records identified and associated with the history of Mexican American peoples in South Omaha.
It is at this vocation that I am involved in daily.
I am also a member of the Latino Futuro Fund,the Latino Coalition of Nebraska,a board member of the
Literacy Council of Omaha, Nebraska Story Arts,and a long time member of the American G.I. Forum.
I have for years shared my knowledge and experience of this City with audiences. I feel that much work
needs to be done to initiate preservation activity up and down the 24th street corridor, especially east of
24th&Vinton, and between F and Q streets on 24th st.
I lament the fact that the architectural legacy of our City as it relates to the builders that were
responsible for both housing and commercial building stock within the neighborhoods and its
business/commercial sites is not well understood.
And so I end this narrative. I plan to remain active in the historical and cultural life of my City and look
forward to the adventures and challenges that lay ahead.
Sincerely,
Jose' F. Garci'a
ispatcher, promoted to a manager in 2002, I retired from railroad service in 2007, at the age
of 62. Through this period of time I was active in Community activities supporting cultural, artistic and
historical venues.
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RECEIVED REQUEST TO LAW
LAW DEPARTMENT
20I I APR -5 AM I I= 10
FOR LAW DEPARTMENT USE ONLY
LOG BOOK # 66-11 = MAYOR
TO: PAUL•D. KRATZ, City Attorney DATE ASSIGNED 04/05/11
DATE 4/26/2011 ASSIGNED TO [✓41 t j
ANSWERED/SENT OUT
REQUEST BEING MADE BY: WITHDRAWN
Mayor's Office 5006
Barb Velinsky Community Director 444-6274
TIME LINE: City Council Agenda - April 26, 2011
(ALLOW 12 WORKING DAYS FROM DATE RECEIVED BY LAW DEPARTMENT)
REQUEST FOR:
Appoint Jose Garcia to the Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission
(STATE SPECIFICALLY WHAT YOU ARE REQUESTING)
DETAILS:
Mayor Jim Suttle requests a Resolution be placed on the City Council agenda of April 26, 2011 to
appoint Jose Garcia, representing a Director of a Museum to the Landmarks Board. Mr. Garcia fills an
unexpired term of Sarah Burt who resigned. His term will begin on April 26, 2011 and end on August
18, 2011.
Resume Enclosed
Revised 03/99
— Print or Type Jose Francisco Garcia
Date:_3.23.11
Please return this completed form along with a copy of your resume to:
Barb Velinsky
Community Director
Bvelinsky@ci.omaha.ne.us
or .
1819 Farnam Street, Suite 300
Omaha, Nebraska 68183
Fax: 402-444-6059
an American Historical Society of the Midlands.
Acting as their volunteer Executive Director, MAHSM has become the prime depository of historical •
records identified and associated with the history of Mexican American peoples in South Omaha.
It is at this vocation that I am involved in daily.
I am also a member of the Latino Futuro Fund,the Latino Coalition of Nebraska,a board member of the
Literacy Council of Omaha, Nebraska Story Arts,and a long time member of the American G.I. Forum.
I have for years shared my knowledge and experience of this City with audiences. I feel that much work
needs to be done to initiate preservation activity up and down the 24th street corridor, especially east of
24th&Vinton, and between F and Q streets on 24th st.
I lament the fact that the architectural legacy of our City as it relates to the builders that were
responsible for both housing and commercial building stock within the neighborhoods and its
business/commercial sites is not well understood.
And so I end this narrative. I plan to remain active in the historical and cultural life of my City and look
forward to the adventures and challenges that lay ahead.
Sincerely,
Jose' F. Garci'a
ispatcher, promoted to a manager in 2002, I retired from railroad service in 2007, at the age
of 62. Through this period of time I was active in Community activities supporting cultural, artistic and
historical venues.
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816 North 34th st(for 37 years)
Omaha, Nebraska
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Born in Kansas City in 1945, I am at the age of sixty-five. The father of 2 boys, I have been married to the
former Linda Perez for going on 34 years.
I lived in the Mexican barrio of the West Side, raised by my paternal Grandmother until I graduated
from Manual High Vocational School in 1963. The next three years I worked for Macy's,Aetna Insurance
and finally took a job with Commerce Trust Company as an IDP clerk. At the same time, I attended
Metropolitan Junior College, working towards an Associate's Degree in Banking until 1966 when I
entered the U.S.Army.
After a three year enlistment, part of it in Southeast Asia, I returned to civilian life and began my
University training at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where I was awarded a Bachelors Degree
in Psychology in 1972. I also involved myself in student government, social and cultural politics and
worked 20 hours a week for the United States Postal Department during this time period.
Upon graduating, I took a position as a Program Developer with the Kansas Council of Farm Workers and
Low Income People, in Garden City, Kansas. Over my one year employment, I was responsible for a
quarter of a million dollars worth of Federal funding dollars for a variety of C.A.P. projects in western
Kansas.
In 1973, I returned to Kansas City, married and began working for the Xerox Corporation,thus beginning
a point in my life that was beset by economic and personal occurrences that in 1976 prompted my move
from Kansas City to Omaha, Nebraska, on July4th, 1976.
Havingdivorced my1st wife, I married the former Linda Perez Rivera and began a series of positions that
included the Chicano Awareness Center,Adoptive Hypnosis Center and for a time,when my 1st son was
born in 1977, a stay at home Dad.
In 1980, I was hired by the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, holding a variety of positions to include
management until I took a New York Dock buyout in 1992, and left the railroad.
Between 1992 and 1997, my wife Linda and I opened an art cultural center on 13th street and because
the buyout included a monthly salary for a period of five years, became active promoting arts, history
and culture that reflected Chicano Mexican American society and tradition.
In 1998,the buyout agreement terminated and I returned to gainful employment with the Union Pacific
Railroad after a short Christmas stint with the United States Postal Service. During my tenure beginning
as a crew dispatcher, promoted to a manager in 2002, I retired from railroad service in 2007, at the age
of 62. Through this period of time I was active in Community activities supporting cultural, artistic and
historical venues.
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My community involvement has been consistent and primarily active in bringing a level of expertise in
organizational dynamics and engaging management techniques, strategies and processes in the design
and implementation of exhibits, presentations as well as encouraging collaborative efforts within and
without the Mexican American community in the State. Since 1977, I have remained active in
promoting and encouraging community cultural arts and historical expression during National Hispanic
Month.
My wife and I have over the years managed, assessed and maintained a growing collection of images,
literature, periodicals, books, artifacts,vintage and historical documents and photographs along with art
objects and materials identified as part of the Mexican and Chicano experience of the Americas.
Of particular interest welling from my close and personal association with South Omaha, its buildings,
people,streets, has been a sentiment for urban settings and the interaction between people and
structures. Learning how both have changed and affected each other through the history of the City has
been somewhat of a passion.
Since I am not a Man of letters, I attended the school of experience by becoming a Board Member of
the Douglas County Historical Society to gain insight and experience which has in 2010, resulted in the
formation of the Mexican American Historical Society,of the Midlands.
Acting as their volunteer Executive Director, MAHSM has become the prime depository of historical
records identified and associated with the history of Mexican American peoples in South Omaha.
It is at this vocation that I am involved in daily.
I am also a member of the Latino Futuro Fund, the Latino Coalition of Nebraska,a board member of the
Literacy Council of Omaha, Nebraska Story Arts,and a long time member of the American G.I. Forum.
I have for years shared my knowledge and experience of this City with audiences. I feel that much work
needs to be done to initiate preservation activity up and down the 24th street corridor, especially east of
24th&Vinton, and between F and Q streets on 24th st.
I lament the fact that the architectural legacy of our City as it relates to the builders that were
responsible for both housing and commercial building stock within the neighborhoods and its
business/commercial sites is not well understood.
And so I end this narrative. I plan to remain active in the historical and cultural life of my City and look
forward to the adventures and challenges that lay ahead.
Sincerely,
Jose' F. Garci'a
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LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER
Omaha,Nebraska
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RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA:
WHEREAS, there now exists a vacancy on the Landmarks Heritage Preservation
Commission; and,
WHEREAS, Section 24-28 of the Omaha Municipal Code provides that vacancies
occurring in the membership of the Commission may be filled as provided in Section 24-26 of
the Omaha Municipal Code; and,
WHEREAS, Section 24-26 of the Omaha Municipal Code provides for the Mayor
to appoint the members of this Commission; and,
WHEREAS, Mayor Jim Suttle has appointed Jose Garcia to fill the remaining
term of Sarah Burt, who resigned, to the Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, as a
museum curator member commencing on the date of confirmation by the City Council and
expiring on August 18, 2011.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF OMAHA:
THAT, the appointment by Mayor Jim Suttle of Jose Garcia, as a museum curator
member of the Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, commencing upon confirmation
by the City Council and expiring on August 18, 2011, is hereby confirmed.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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I am also a member of the Latino Futuro Fund, the Latino Coalition of Nebraska,a board member of the
Literacy Council of Omaha, Nebraska Story Arts,and a long time member of the American G.I. Forum.
I have for years shared my knowledge and experience of this City with audiences. I feel that much work
needs to be done to initiate preservation activity up and down the 24th street corridor, especially east of
24th&Vinton, and between F and Q streets on 24th st.
I lament the fact that the architectural legacy of our City as it relates to the builders that were
responsible for both housing and commercial building stock within the neighborhoods and its
business/commercial sites is not well understood.
And so I end this narrative. I plan to remain active in the historical and cultural life of my City and look
forward to the adventures and challenges that lay ahead.
Sincerely,
Jose' F. Garci'a
oted to a manager in 2002, I retired from railroad service in 2007, at the age
of 62. Through this period of time I was active in Community activities supporting cultural, artistic and
historical venues.
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Honorable President
and Members of the City Council,
Attached for consideration is a Resolution appointing Jose Garcia to the Landmarks Heritage
Preservation Commission. Mr. Garcia is fulfilling the remaining term of Sarah Burt, who
resigned.
A copy of Mr. Garcia's Résumé is attached for your information.
Your favorable consideration of this request will be appreciated.
Sincerely,
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Jim Suttle, Mayor
City of Omaha
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