MY Town is a traveling children's exhibit design to teach traffic safety and other healthy life skills to young children and their guardians. The exhibit was created through a partnership between TAMC, MY Museum, CSUMB, First 5, Monterey County Libraries, and Hijos del Sol as a creative way to engage the community and create a fun space for learning. The initial site for the exhibit was at the Steinbeck Center in downtown Salinas. The grand opening was held on June 7, 2019 and was a great success with 750 people visiting the MY Town Exhibit. MY Town had between 100 - 300 visitors per day through the end of June 2019.
Staff was actively looking for the next locations for the exhibit when the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders took effect in Monterey County. With those shelter-in-place orders lifting more than a year later, staff would like to revive the MY Town Exhibit but need to extend the contract with MY Museum in order to do so.
The current contract expires the end of May 2021. Amendment #1 would extend the duration of the contract out to December 31, 2023 to allow adequate time for COVID-19 restrictions to lift and find a suitable venue(s) for the MY Town Exhibit.