Thank you for clarifying all that and it is as I’d expected, we seem to be pretty much in agreement – in general, I suggest in furious agreement. However, “GOD is in the detail” as always. Unless the “budget process” starts right NOW I submit that too much is at stake to leave the matter of QVMAG governance and funding until later IF the institution wishes to place itself in the strongest possible negotiating position with funding agencies, sponsors, donors, et al. I also submit that too much is at stake to be ‘relaxed and comfortable’ about the way progress is pursued after all this time and under the current circumstances – and especially so with looming funding threats apparent.
Time is escaping while decisions and evaluations are currently being made, and apparently actively(?), without the meaningful and proactive engagement of the QVMAG’s Community of Ownership & Interest (COI) and indeed without there being a meaningful and proactive governance model being in place.
Furthermore, it is not “council” that is required to fund the institution “to the tune of $4million”, rather it is Launceston’s ratepayers who will be stumping up their hard earned cash for that purpose – conscripted in the form of an undisclosed levy within their rates. As you know I’m a staunched advocate for the ‘value of musingplaces’ in the context of current 21st C sensibilities given the potential dividends – social, cultural & fiscal – such institutions have to offer. However, given the community investments made and called for, some tangible performance indicators are required.
By extension I believe that, and I’m advocating that, the QVMAG’s COI in its broadest and most inclusive context would want to be, indeed needs to be, proactively engaged with the institution and consequently be afforded some tangible accountability via an appropriate and credible governance model – whatever form that may take.
I submit that the time is NOW for the Aldermen/Trustees to be fully engaged in reimagining the QVMAG’s future – governance, management & operational models – given all that is at stake and what opportunities there are available to make it a truly great regional musingplace.
Regard,
Ray
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On 7/11/14 8:39 AM, "Mayor" <Mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au> wrote:
Dear Ray,
I've had a number of ratepayers congratulating me on my comments which like you I did not hear.
In an interview earlier this week I stated I support and believe council would support an independent board for QVMAG however as a new council we have not discussed this but would be discussing during the budget process. I also said should council be required to fund this especially to the tune of $4million of course we would want a say in the running of QVMAG as any board/council would
want a say if it was providing the funding.I also said council will continue discussions with the State Government.
Regards,
Albert
On 6 Nov 2014, at 3:27 pm, "Ray Norman"
Good afternoon Albert,
I’ve just received a phone call from someone who’d received a copy of my QVMAG OPEN LETTER and had heard you on the news this morning. Unfortunately I didn’t hear that news as I was engaged with another project this morning for a deadline that has just passed ... AND met.
My caller was saying that you were “misrepresenting [my] case” and that you were “totally at odds with what I was presenting”. As there is no transcript available of what went to air from my interview recorded some time ago or your remarks that followed I’ll have to rely on your memory. Where are we at odds and what did you actually say?
I’m a little perplexed that we might be speaking in discord as on balance I’d imagined that for all kinds of reasons you’d support, in a general way, the propositions I’m putting up for consideration.
Regards,
Ray
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