2015-03-03 Infrastructure & Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   3 MARCH 2015




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INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               3 MARCH 2015

    Aspher                                      Review of the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre Report | 7

    Key themes and community opinions
    Key principles - Role and function:
        *  Animportant community asset - part of Cooroy’s history, heritage and community
        *  Key role in building social capital
        *  Strong support for maintaining a visual arts focus
        *  Support for maintaining a cultural role and supporting emerging artists
        *  Needs to be sustainable on many levels — e.g. sound financial base, wide community
           support, strong management model.

    Key principles - Activities and programs
        *  Recognition of the importance of the existing pottery facilities and users
        ¢  Activities should complement, enhance and integrate with existing services and
           businesses, not compete
        *  Needs to be dynamic and have more energy
        *  Support for extending functions from visual arts to other community and cultural
           needs and activities, such as learning, music performances, lunches, and recreational
           activities.

    Key principles - Governance and support:
        *  Should be community run and driven
        *  Governance needs to be sustainable, and for some proposers, financial support from
           Council and/or other sources is a requirement
        *  Council needs to continue to maintain the building.

    Key principles — Users, usage and accessibility
        *  Open to the broader community, not just a select few
        ¢  Needs to be better used, with access and opening hours extended to include evenings
           and weekends.

    Opportunities identified that may need to be addressed in future planning and development
        *  Some building limitations need to be dealt with in order to facilitate more effective
           and efficient use of discrete and overall areas within the CBFAC. For example: poor
           acoustics for some activities when there are concurrent users and access to bathrooms
           and kitchen from other areas
        *  There is an opportunity to incorporate old and new ideas relevant to Cooroy and
           broader Noosa e.g. ceramics, heritage, biosphere, broader creative industries (such as
           creative community-working spaces)
        *  As appropriate, the building should be used to meet the needs identified in the local
           area e.g. helping young people, a place for life-long learning.

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