Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Town Clerk/Culture Mile Director and Chief Grants Officer. 

 Members considered a report of the Assistant Town Clerk/Culture Mile Director, which presented the recommendations of the City Arts Initiative (CAI), which had met on 19 April 2018. 

In response to query about the governance of the CAI, which is a Member/Officer Working Party, the Town Clerk agreed to canvass Members for expressions of interest in serving.  Members noted that, currently, membership included the Chairman of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee and two further Members of the Committee.  Members also noted that, for the next meeting scheduled at the end of May 2018, it would be prudent for the current arrangements to stand.    Mrs Littlechild expressed an interest in remaining on the CAI, by virtue of being Chairman of Sculpture in the City.  The Town Clerk advised that Members receive a report at their next meeting, seeking to formalise the governance arrangements of the City Arts Initiative. 

RESOLVED, that:

1.     The following recommendations of the CAI be approved:

a.     Crossrail Art Foundation: approve the proposed installation, with consideration given to sleeved bollards.

b.    London Festival of Architecture: approve the installation of the proposed temporary artistic interventions, subject to implementation of CAI recommendations on access, security, location and other issues; and agreement with Transport for London (TfL), and the City Corporation’s City Gardens and Highways teams, where appropriate.

c.     Contemporary Art Society: decline, noting the sculpture’s significant scale and thus its unsuitability for siting in the City’s small gardens and churchyards.

2.     Members approve the Terms of Reference and Composition of the City Arts Initiative Working Party, at its next meeting and annually thereafter, at the first meeting of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee following the Court of Common Council. NB: The existing arrangements in respect of the meeting of the CAI scheduled for the end of May 2018 will stand.