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Dover City Council issued the following announcement on Aug. 12.

At the City Council meeting this week, Mayor Robert Carrier and the Dover City Council recognized the Dover Arts Commission for being honored by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts with the Governor's Arts Award for Creative Communities. The Creative Communities Award recognizes a city, town, community-wide organization, or an individual that significantly fostered the arts through funding and/or program initiatives within the past three years, and the Arts Commission was chosen because of a number of arts-related initiatives in recent years.

"What you guys do is unbelievable," Carrier said to members of the Arts Commission, shortly before reading the proclamation.

Arts Commission Co-Chair Jane Hamor, Vice Chair Linnea Nemeth, and Commission member Cliff Blake were in attendance at the City Council meeting to receive the proclamation.

The proclamation reads:

WHEREAS: The Dover Arts Commission and the City of Dover were recently honored by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts with the Governor's Arts Award for Creative Communities; and

WHEREAS: The Creative Communities Award recognizes the Dover Arts Commission for significantly fostering the arts through funding and/or program initiatives; and

WHEREAS: The Dover Arts Commission is a City Council-created committee that serves in an advisory capacity to the City Council and City Manager, enhancing appreciation and awareness of arts and culture in the community through increased dialog and citizen participation; and

WHEREAS: Initiatives by the Dover Arts Commission and the City of Dover to foster art within Dover include:

• Incorporating public art requirements into new development in the Downtown central business district;
• Creating an Arts & Culture Chapter of the Master Plan;
• Establishing City Arts Grants;
• Establishing the Art Beat Program, creating partnerships between local businesses and artists;
• Funding a new state-of-the-art performance center at Dover High School;

  Supporting programming to make art accessible to all citizens through the Dover Public Library and Recreation Department.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ROBERT CARRIER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DOVER, NEWI HAMPSHIRE, AND THE ENTIRE DOVER CITY COUNCIL DO HEREBY CONGRATULATE:

DOVER ARTS COMMISSION

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