2014-06-17 Infrastructure and Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   17 JUNE 2014




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INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    17 JUNE 2014

  STRATEGIC POLICY - MEMORIALS AND PLAQUES

  ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
  Council officers will assess the suitability of applications and liaise with the councillor in whose division a
  memorial is proposed to be located.
  The Memorials and Plaques Guidelines will allow the referral of disputed, contentious, major or complex
  proposals to council for consideration.

  POLICY REVIEW
  This Memorials and Plaques Policy and related procedures will be reviewed in 2012 to evaluate its
  effectiveness and continuing relevance.

  DEFINITIONS
 Deaccessioning        The process used to remove an art or design work, memorial or plaque
                       permanently from a collection. This can involve the transfer of ownership by sale,
                       exchange or gifting. Deaccessioning can also occur if the maintenance costs
                       exceed the value of the memorial.
  Memorial             An object or feature that commemorates a significant event,         individual,
                       organisation or anniversary. A proposed memorial to be to be located on land
                       owned or managed by council, and to be commissioned or purchased from a
                       professional artist/s must be referred to council’s Public Art Assessment Panel.
 Maintenance           The keeping of an artefact or structure, document, landscape feature or place, or
                       other physical feature in a specified condition by council at the cost of the
                       proponent.
  Plaque               A flat tile/tablet of metal, stone or other appropriate material which includes text
                       and/or images to commemorate a person, place or an event and/or to provide
                       historical text or information relevant to its location. Such a plaque is usually fixed
                       to an object, furniture, building or pavement.
  Proponent            The person, group or organisation applying to commemorate a person, event or
                       place with a memorial or plaque. The proponent may be an individual, group or
                       representative of a government or non-government organisation.
  Public Land          Community land/waterways, road reserves and operational land owned by council
                       and any other land/waterways in council's care, control or management.
  Roadside Memorial   An object or image constructed, erected, planted, painted or placed on an ad hoc
                       basis to commemorate individuals lost through traffic fatalities.

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