Issue - items at meetings - Work Programme

Consideration of the current work programme.

The workshop on the leisure management contract was confirmed as July 27 from 1-3pm in R431, King’s House.

Andrew Comben, Chief Executive of the Dome and Festival would be invited to give a presentation at the next meeting on the Festival.

The other areas on the agenda for September were: marketing and use of Council Premises; legibility study; marathon feedback; ad-hoc panel report; workshop feedback; Local Economic Assessment.

Other future issues included: co-operatives; the business case for culture; report on the implications for the cultural sector from the changes underway.

55.1 The Chairman informed the Committee that the next ad-hoc panel on the cultural provision for children would hold its first scoping meeting on 24 February. The members were Councillor Mel Davis, Council Rachel Fryer, and Councillor Carol Theobald. The Chairman noted that Councillor Davis had expressed an interest in Chairing the Panel and CTEOSC members agreed with this proposition. It was noted that the final decision on Chairing was for the panel members to make but CTEOSC’s view would be expressed.

55.2 The Committee agreed to add Performance Indicators to the agenda for the meeting in July and this would focus on new business registrations.  The marketing of premises and venues  had been discussed at a previous meeting and it was agreed to add this to the work programme.

55.3 The issue of music venues in the city was discussed and a venue operator had offered to bring some other venue operators to a future meeting to outline what is happening in their sector, and the barriers that needed to be addressed. It was suggested that this could be the subject of a future scrutiny workshop.  There was an item on the April agenda on music venues with a paper from Kevin Nixon of the Brighton Music Institute which may be a good starting point for this discussion.

55.4 It was noted that the item to be referred to Council from this agenda was Item 54, the Executive Response to the Environmental Industries report.