Simplified: The Sioux Falls City Council seeks to get rid of Taxidermy collection at the Delbridge Museum does not set a precedent to regenerate things that have previously been given in the city. That is why they want an audit of other existing gift agreements to make sure they know what has been promised.

Why does it matter

  • The suggestion of the audit came only moments after painful – but eventually unanimously – Vote for excess Taxidermy collection This has been exposed for 40 years (and has an uncertain future for the last year and a half).
  • Advisor Miranda Bassi successfully brought a resolution of the surplus to ensure Zoo will create an interactive exhibit as a tribute to the legacy of the Delbridge Museum.

“There is a lot of heart, history and heritage in this collection,” Bassie said, adding that voting for the surplus collection is one of the most difficult she had to do.

  • Bassie, along with the wizard Rich Mercury, presented the proposal to Take a look at other gift agreements with unclear or unspecified deadlines. Initially, the Delbridge family donated the Taxidermy collection to the city in the 1980s and there was a lot of discussion on the advice on whether the city could give away something that was endowed and agreed to maintain a “permanent”, as stated by advisor Kurt Sol.

“Indeed, it’s a stain at the zoo and it’s going to be a while,” Soel said. “There was some discussion what it means” constantly. “It hurts me to see … We will take a very negative impact that goes forward for this vote.”

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Are you looking for an experience of how we got here? I have you:

Why can’t you say goodbye to taxiser before you go to college

A collection of about 150 specimens of taxidermia, which has been loved by Sioux Fallsians for decades, has been rescued from disposal. Now this is a vote of the City Council away from the departure to the University of Notre Dame.

Why the Brockhouse Collection may soon have a new home (or two or three)

An urban working group, charged with finding a copy for a copy, received interest from six different non -profit organizations, who said they would like to restore some or all pieces.

So what happens after that?

Mercury said he predicted he would take about three months About the internal audit of existing gift agreements.

  • The goal, he added, is to consider previous agreements as a way of strengthening the future. Ultimately it’s about making sure the donors are still ready Give gifts to the city without fear that they will be inferior.

“I want to make sure that philanthropy remains the secret sauce of the Siu waterfall,” Mercury said.