Meeting with Colin Dale
The working group has met with Colin Dale, who is in charge of the Community Services work stream at the Auckland Transition Agency. It was an excellent meeting and we look forward to working with him further.
• We felt confident that Colin Dale is working hard to try and capture the existing arts funding structures across the current cities and propose them to the new supercity. He was genuinely interested in our views, and we were fortunate to meet with him as we understand that other heads of work streams have been less open to these meeting requests.
• The draft organisational structure for the council is constantly being modified, we saw the version at that time is not in the public realm as yet as it is draft and will change before it becomes a discussion document
• Specific roles of the local boards are still undecided. We feel this is something to watch carefully as it is unclear how the local board will relate to the central structure on the topic of Arts and culture and what types of arts facilities/individuals might be impacted.
Our plans for the near future:
• Responding to the ATA’s discussion document on proposed CCOs
• Assessing the issues in the third bill for the arts sector, and providing advice on how to make submissions.
• To meet with the arts reference group to discuss the issues for medium-sized enterprises with regional delivery and/or regional aspirations.
Some useful dates:
1st February: Draft Organisational Structure finalised.
12th February: Submissions due for the third and final Bill
Mid February: Meeting with arts sector, where the working group will present and discuss their findings, recommendations and advice. Date TBC
May 2010: Organisational Structure adopted.
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