2018-02-06 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 1 - Noosa Museum letter

Services & Organisation
   Committee Agenda
    6 February 2018
 Item 1 - Attachment 1

Services & Organisation
                                                                                                     Committee Agenda
                                                                                                        6 February 2018
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     Mayor Wellington
     Noosa Council
    9 Pelican Street
    TEWANTIN Q4565                                                                20" December 2017
     Dear Mayor Wellington,
    Thank you for meeting with us today as a follow-up to the constructive meeting with you on 11 to discuss the opportunity for
    Cooroora Historical Society Inc to purchase the former Cooroora Masonic Lodge property in Station Street Pomona which is for
    sale. This letter is to provide further details about this exciting project for Noosa Shire Museum and also to respond to specific
    items raised during our first meeting on 11".
     Noosa Shire Museum strongly believes that this State Heritage Register Listed File No.602423 Icon in Noosa Shire should be
    owned and operated as an annexe to the museum. The property will become part of the museum’s collections with the
     responsibility of providing the public access to the precious interior murals, provide a venue for museum events, displays , and
    visiting exhibitions, improve NSM sustainability and complement the development planning under way following on from the
     Noosa Council review by Josh Tarrant and the 2017 Australian Standards Review by Museums and Galleries Queensland. This
    action and community development by Cooroora Historical Society Inc will comply with “The Burra Charter — The Australian
    ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance” - Article 9. Location 9.1.
    To purchase this property for the above reasons, CHS Inc is asking Noosa Council to be a financial partner by approving our
     Heritage Levy application to fund 50% of the purchase price of the property. The remaining 50% is being sought from other
    funding sources . The owners have provided a sale price to us of $450,000.00.

    To address issues mentioned during our first meeting last week , the following response is provided to individual items —

       ISSUES -               RESPONSE —
     COUNCIL to PURCHASE _ This application from Cooroora Historical Society Inc. is not asking Noosa Council to “purchase an old
     OLD BUILDING:            building”. This application is asking for Council’s interest and financial support to assist CHS Inc. raise
                              funds from various sources to purchase and publicly use an Icon of Noosa Shire heritage for Shire and
                              Community development.
     VOLUNTEERS:              CHS management committee is confident of providing adequate volunteer staff numbers to
                              operate the site as an annexe to NSM.
     RATE PAYERS MONEY:       An allocation for funding from the Heritage Levy to provide part funding for the purchase of the
                              property is justified by this CHS project which is to preserve and use acknowledged Noosa Shire
                              social and cultural heritage as depicted by rare artistic murals painted in the 1920s within the building
      yuh ey                  which are additional site heritage to the history and early settlement of the land by one of the
   iY                         Protestant Unity Group settlers from 1896 and the Masonic Lodge built in 1923 , please refer to
fej     RE GEVED        a     Heritage Levy policy page 1 “preserve and protect the tangible and Intangible heritage of the Shire”.
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