Arts, Culture and Events Committee

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Arts, Culture and Events Committee held in the Reception Lounge, Auckland Town Hall, 301-305 Queen Street, Auckland on Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at

9.45 am.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Cr Alf Filipaina

 

Members

Cr Dr Cathy Casey

 

 

Cr Linda Cooper, JP

 

 

Cr Hon Chris Fletcher, QSO

From 10:24am, Item 11

 

Member Liane Ngamane

From 9:58am, Item 10

 

Cr Wayne Walker

 

 

Cr George Wood, CNZM

 

 

APOLOGIES

 

 

Member Precious Clark

Non-attendance

 

Cr Chris Fletcher

For lateness

 

Member Liane Ngamane

For lateness

 

Cr John Watson

Non-attendance

 

ALSO PRESENT

 

 

Cr Calum Penrose

 

 

 


Arts, Culture and Events Committee

04 December 2013

 

 

 

 

1          Apologies

 

Resolution number ART/2013/1

MOVED by Chairperson AM Filipaina, seconded by Cr WD Walker:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)         accept the apologies from Cr John Watson and Member Precious Clark for non-attendance and from Cr Chris Fletcher and Member Liane Ngamane for lateness.

CARRIED

 

 

2          Declaration of Interest

 

There were no declarations of interest.

 

 

3          Confirmation of Minutes

 

            There were no confirmation of minutes.

 

 

4          Petitions

 

There were no petitions.

 

 

5          Public Input

 

There was no public input.

 

 

6          Local Board Input

 

There was no local board input.

 

 

7          Extraordinary Business

 

There was no extraordinary business.

 

 

8          Notices of Motion

 

There were no notices of motion.


 

 

9

Regional Event Fund Final Distribution 2013/2014

 

 

 

Resolution number ART/2013/2

MOVED by Chairperson AM Filipaina, seconded by Cr CM Casey:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)      approve the allocation of $100,000 of regional event funding to a contestable process targeting the priority areas of Maori, youth, and winter events.

b)       endorse an application and assessment process similar to that carried out for earlier funding distribution, with the addition of an EOI phase to ensure only proposed events closely aligned with the priority areas be required to submit full applications.

 

CARRIED

 

 

10

Funding the Queen Street Golden Mile 2014

 

 

 

Member  Ngamane entered the meeting at 9.58am.

 

 

 

Resolution number ART/2013/3

MOVED by Chairperson AM Filipaina, seconded by Cr WD Walker:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)         approve the allocation of $100,000 grant funding to the Queen Street Golden Mile event in April 2014 being offset against equivalent savings from the Botanic Gardens Festival budget.

b)         endorse that future funding for the Queen Street Golden Mile be considered through the contestable regional event fund process.

c)         request that the Field of Dreams Trust present to the February 2014 meeting of the Arts, Culture and Evens Committee on the Queen Street Golden Mile event.

 

CARRIED

 


 

11

Arts and Culture and Events - Programme Update

 

 

 

Cr CE Fletcher entered the meeting at 10.24am.

 

 

 

A copy of the tabled information is attached to the official copy of these minutes and is

available on the Auckland Council website.

 

 

 

Resolution number ART/2013/4

MOVED by Cr WD Walker, seconded by Cr CM Casey:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)      receive the presentation.

b)        thank the Arts and Culture Manager Kaye Glamuzina and the Events Manager David Burt for their presentations.

c)         commend the staff of the civic events team for their excellent work across the region.

d)        ask officers to explore the gifting of the gangway for the Spirit of New Zealand and to confirm budget and feasibility.

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Tabled Information - Programme Update

b     Tabled Informaiton - Events  

 

 

12

Arts and Culture Activities and Events Calendars – December 2013 to February 2014

 

 

 

Resolution number ART/2013/5

MOVED by Cr WD Walker, seconded by Member  Ngamane:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)      receive the report.

CARRIED

 

 

13

Arts and Culture Strategic Action Plan progress update: December 2014

 

 

 

Resolution number ART/2013/6

MOVED by Cr CM Casey, seconded by Member  Ngamane:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)      receive and comment on the report.

 

CARRIED

  

14        Consideration of Extraordinary Items

 

There was no consideration of extraordinary items.  

 

 


 

 

15        Procedural motion to exclude the public

 

Resolution number ART/2013/7

MOVED by Chairperson AM Filipaina, seconded by Cr CE Fletcher:  

That the Arts, Culture and Events Committee:

a)      exclude the public from the following part(s) of the proceedings of this meeting.

The general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter, and the specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution follows.

This resolution is made in reliance on section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and the particular interest or interests protected by section 6 or section 7 of that Act which would be prejudiced by the holding of the whole or relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting in public, as follows:

 

C1       2013/2014 Interim Regional Community Funding Allocation for Arts Organisations

Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter

Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable)

Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this resolution

The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for withholding exists under section 7.

s7(2)(b)(ii) - The withholding of the information is necessary to protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information.

In particular, this report is confidential on the basis that it discusses individual organisation's financial information and permission has not been sought for disclosure to the public..

s48(1)(a)

The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for withholding exists under section 7.

 

 

The text of these resolutions is made available to the public who are present at the meeting and form part of the minutes of the meeting.

 

CARRIED

 

11.42am          The public was excluded.

 

Resolutions in relation to the confidential items are recorded in the confidential section of these minutes and are not publicly available.

 

11.54am          The public was re-admitted.

 

restatementS

 

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

 

 

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2013/2014 Interim Regional Community Funding Allocation for Arts Organisations

 

e)      confirm that the resolutions and report remain in the confidential minutes until reasons for confidentiality no longer exists.

  

 

 

11.54am                                             The Chairperson thanked Members for their attendance and attention to business and declared the meeting closed.

 

CONFIRMED AS A TRUE AND CORRECT RECORD AT A MEETING OF THE Arts, Culture and Events Committee HELD ON

 

 

 

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