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Coyote Point Museum thrives after near-death - San Jose Mercury News
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Coyote Point Museum saved from extinction - San Mateo Daily Journal
Friday, December 1st, 2006
| Coyote Point Museum saved from extinction San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - Three months after a very public battle for control over the Coyote Point Museum, its new board of directors collected all $558,000 in pledged donations, named … |
COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Archival News
COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER
Source: ANN MURAKAMI, Mercury News Staff Writer
By Spring 1991, people will be able to walk on the wild side and rub elbows with Bay Area animals in a new wildlife center at the Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo. Construction is expected to begin later this month for the three-acre center, which will feature every creature native to the area, from river otters to banana slugs. The center, in the Coyote Point Recreation Area, will include large rock formations with pockets of exhibits housing small mammals. The entire outcrop area will be
Published on October 4, 1989, Page 10, San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Golden Gate in San Mateo? - Examiner.com
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006| Golden Gate in San Mateo? Examiner.com -Oct 19, 2006 … and arts museum would blend with the park’s mission and likely bring more visitors to facilities including to the struggling Coyote Point Museum — which is … |
Golden Gate in San Mateo?
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SAN MATEO, Calif. - Updated recreation area plan calls for arts center, museum, other amenities
SAN MATEO — A 2,000-seat performing arts center could be the crown jewel of a renovated Coyote Point Recreation Area, according to officials.
Brought to the county by Broadway By the Bay, which is considering moving from its Burlingame address, the 50,000-square-foot arts center idea would be part of a broader park makeover. The master plan lays out a multiyear, five-phased framework for remaking the park into a major county attraction. Additional amenities could include an arts museum, possible restaurant, expanded Bay Trail, new food concessions, and improved beach, swimming and boating facilities, according to the recently released Coyote Point Recreation Area Master Plan update.
“We’re thinking of it as a miniature Golden Gate Park, with lots of cultural attractions,” said Ruth Waters, founder of the Peninsula Museum of Art, which — like Broadway By the Bay — is in discussions with parks officials in hopes of finding a space in park.
The arts center and arts museum would blend with the park’s mission and likely bring more visitors to facilities including to the struggling Coyote Point Museum — which is undergoing its own transformation, County Parks Director Dave Holland said. “I think it would be magnificent for the county park system,” Holland said.
A reconstructed Peninsula Avenue exit and entrance to the park, now in the planning stages, would make the vision of the park as a cultural draw even more feasible, Holland said. Much-needed meeting and reception space for groups of around 200 could also be part of an arts center, Holland said.
The update couldn’t come too soon for the 149-acre park, which welcomes 500,000 visitors a year, according to Sam Herzberg, a Parks and Recreation planner. The original master plan dates back to 1971.
The master plan update also provides for the relocation of the fire range near the golf course, which would be replaced by a multi-level parking structure. Facilities now leased to the Peninsula Humane Society would be redeveloped, once the organization relocates, opening a prime spot for the Peninsula Museum of Art, a restaurant or a new park maintenance facility, according to officials.
The proposed cultural dimensions of the park were a result of close coordination with the Arts Commission, also part of the county Parks and Recreation division, according to Bern Smith, chairman of county Parks and Recreation Commission, which approved the plan Oct. 5. He’s most excited about completing work on two regional trails that are part of the master plan, including the Bay Trail, envisioned to one day rim the Bay, and Bay Water Trail, promoted as a way to encourage nonmotorized boating such as sea kayaking and canoeing, Smith said.
“I think this park is perfectly suited to promote that type of use,” he said.
The updated master plan is scheduled to go to the Board of Supervisors for approval in early December, officials said.
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Museum appoints executive director - San Mateo Daily Journal
Thursday, September 14th, 2006| Museum appoints executive director San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - Sep 14, 2006 … to strengthen the museum’s endowment and long-term financial stability. It promises to maintain a balanced annual budget, establish new governance procedures …A new board of trustees for Coyote Point Museum made its first big change this week by naming a new interim executive director — just a week after a proposal to mix up leadership was approved. A new board of trustees was formed Tuesday night with many former board members coming on board and only a handful of current members remaining. The first order of business was to name Director of Marketing and Operations Michelle Martin as the new acting executive director. Corrina Marshall, who was hired as interim executive director in July to oversee the museum’s transition to a new nonprofit, is no longer with the museum, said newly elected board President Linda Lanier. Marshall was to manage the transition to the 11th Hour Project, a group headed by Silicon Valley executives and their spouses. The group wanted to raze the museum and build a state-of-the-art global warming education center. The current board feels Martin is a better fit for the job now that the museum will stay open. “Her role as acting executive director allows us the time needed to discover and hire the executive director with the skills that will guide our new energy and commitment,” Lanier said in a statement released yesterday. The new board aims to increase fundraising to strengthen the museum’s endowment and long-term financial stability. It promises to maintain a balanced annual budget, establish new governance procedures and implement a process for major changes to the environmental hall. It will create a new program and exhibit committee to implement upgrades to aging exhibits. Meanwhile, the Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum continues to collect donations from a growing number of Peninsula residents who want to see the wildlife education center remain open. The group has collected $556,886 from 805 people since the campaign began on Aug.1, Lanier said. The fundraising campaign was sparked by news that another nonprofit, the 11th Hour Project, was considering a takeover of the troubled museum. The 11th Hour Project, run by a group of Silicon Valley executives, wanted to turn the museum into a large-scale global warming education center. Lanier lead the campaign and was chosen to take over as president of the board of trustees, which will also consist of a handful of former board members from the 1980s and 1990s. Pete McCloskey, an eight-term former congressman and retired Sun Microsystems executive Eric Richert are on the board. Almost all board members have served, or are serving, on other nonprofit boards. The entire board is from San Mateo County. An advisory board was also formed and consists of national experts to help guide the board as it moves toward revamping the 52-year-old museum. |
Group taking over Coyote Point Museum
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Group taking over Coyote Point Museum
SF Gate.com - Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
09:29 PDT SAN MATEO — A Peninsula-based group has succeeded in its bid to take over Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo, after the museum’s board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday night to accept the grassroots organization’s proposal.
Linda Lanier, co-chair of the Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum, said her group’s plan would help the struggling wildlife learning center to remain open and ensure its long-term financial stability. The plan includes the creation of several new committees, one charged with creating new programming and exhibits at the museum, another that will focus on fundraising and a third that will act as an advisory body to the board.
Under the proposal, the museum will also seek new revenue boosters, such as corporate relationships, food and beverage operations and increased membership. Since early August, when the group was formed, it has raised $543,000 from community members — nearly one-third more than Lanier anticipated. The museum has a $700,000 deficit this fiscal year.
The current board also voted Tuesday night to accept 17 new members to the body as part of the proposal, said Lanier, who is one of the new members.
The museum, located on Coyote Point in San Mateo, has been struggling for years to stay fiscally solvent and has not had a permanent executive director in years.
Museum officials stirred a controversy last month when they announced they would consider two proposals to save the museum: the one from Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum, and another by the 11th Hour Project. That group, created by Silicon Valley executives and their families, aimed to scrap the museum and replace it with a global warming education center. Responding to community opposition, however, the group withdrew its proposal two weeks ago. The 11th Hour Project still hopes to build the center elsewhere.
Perhaps in response to the 11th Hour Project’s plan, the Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum states in its proposal that in the future the museum will “address underlying factors responsible for our environmental problems such as species extinction, loss of habitat, overpopulation, global warming and toxic waste.”
E-mail Marisa Lagos at mlagos@sfchronicle.com. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/06/BAG6BL06M510.DTL
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Group hopes $400,000 it raised will preserve Coyote Point Museum
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Group hopes $400,000 it raised will preserve Coyote Point Museum
Proponents of a climate center there showing less interest
- Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer, Wednesday, August 23, 2006
A community group that wants to preserve San Mateo’s Coyote Point Museum has raised more than $400,000, and museum officials said Tuesday that a rival proposal to scrap the aging attraction to make way for a global warming study center will most likely be rejected after receiving bad reviews from the public.
Also on Tuesday, the 11th Hour Project, the Silicon Valley-based environmental group that proposed scrapping Coyote Point Museum,
Global warming group eyes museum
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006SAN MATEO
Global warming group eyes museum
- Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer, Thursday, August 3, 2006
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Fans of the popular-but-struggling Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo are worried about the future of the 52-year-old wildlife learning center, but the nonprofit’s directors on Wednesday said the Peninsula mainstay would stay open because two groups have expressed interest in helping.
But Rob Thomas, president of the center’s board of trustees, wouldn’t directly address reports that a group with ties to former Vice President Al Gore — the Silicon Valley-based 11th Hour Project — is interested in scrapping the center and rebuilding it as a global-warming education hub.
COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Archival News
COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER
Source: ANN MURAKAMI, Mercury News Staff Writer
By Spring 1991, people will be able to walk on the wild side and rub elbows with Bay Area animals in a new wildlife center at the Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo. Construction is expected to begin later this month for the three-acre center, which will feature every creature native to the area, from river otters to banana slugs. The center, in the Coyote Point Recreation Area, will include large rock formations with pockets of exhibits housing small mammals. The entire outcrop area will be
Published on October 4, 1989, Page 10, San Jose Mercury News (CA)