Tauranga City Council is setting a deadline for the future of the Cargo Shed amongst squabbling between the current lease holder Creative Tauranga and stallholders.
Both stallholders and Creative Tauranga have been asked to present their submissions on the future of the shed at council's Projects and Monitoring Committee meeting on Monday, June 10.
The Cargo Shed's future will be put to council on June 10.
The decision, made by TCC this morning, follows a request by stallholders to take over the lease directly from the council due to their inability to work with Creative Tauranga.
Each party has been requested to present a full outline on the shed, including their vision, potential customers, types of experiences the public will have, opening hours, assistance required and promotion of the venue.
The proposals are required to align with the shed's current purpose - providing a creative arts venue open to the public. The term of the new agreement will be for 12 months period from July 1, 2013.
The committee will consider the issue of the preferred licensee for the Cargo Shed through an agenda item as part of the formal section of the meeting.
The struggle for control of the council owned shed erupted in April when the artisan tenants were given eviction notices, requiring them to be out by the end of May.
The current stallholders' leases had expired and Creative Tauranga CEO Tracey Ruddick-Gudsell said at the time the board is considering a new direction for the shed. Details on the new direction are yet to be made public.
The tenants took the matter to the council's annual plan hearings on May 13, where they proposed taking over the shed's lease, and removing Creative Tauranga from the loop.
Stallholders wanted council permission to remain in the shed until the end of Creative Tauranga's current lease on June 30 to allow them to formulate a plan for the shed, including a full projected cash-flow.
After the hearings Creative Tauranga again wrote to the tenants allowing them to remain until June 30, but under conditions the tenants say are unacceptable.
Creative Tauranga is government and council funded.
City council communications manager Frank Begley says the rent Creative Tauranga pays on the shed is somewhere between a ‘peppercorn' and commercial rate. It is a rate designed to enable a community arts venue to operate.
The Cargo Shed on Dive Crescent has been operating since November 2004. Creative Tauranga took over the management of the Cargo Shed in April 2009.
9 comments
Toy tossers
Posted on 30-05-2013 13:03 | By YOGI BEAR
All squabbling over nothing, let them deal direct with TCC, have a real lease and get rid of the useless Creative Tauranga.
Rastus
Posted on 30-05-2013 14:05 | By rastus
Creative Tauranga is a disgrace. An almost fascist organization that thinks that the way forward for the arts is to dictate - show me anything creative that this outfit has ever done and maybe I and others would be prepared to support them - they have had weeks to settle this debate by simply coming out with what brilliant plan they have in mind - the public will soon decide whether or not their ideas warrant support!
WHAT IS THE NEW DIRECTION
Posted on 30-05-2013 14:20 | By Colleen Spiro
repeat.....WHAT IS THE NEW DIRECTION??????? Spit it out.
My hope for a plan is
Posted on 30-05-2013 15:08 | By bridp
to pull the unsightly building down and not spend a cent more on "renovations". Replace it with a building that is designed with sea views and an open market atmosphere, where arts, seafood, etc can be sold and displayed. Do it properly for once TCC.
New direction
Posted on 31-05-2013 08:41 | By YOGI BEAR
That is easy, "File 13"! Bridp, please "DON'T" suggest to TCC that they demolish yet another building, it only reinforces the ability to destroy, they know nothing else. Creative Tauranga is certainly of no use to anyone EVER but they don't yet know or realize it, it is part of the official mind set of living in a moth ball world.
Priority
Posted on 31-05-2013 09:19 | By RawPrawn
Don't spend a single cent on it until the ownership of the 'land' is settled - TCC's own City Plan shows, quite properly, the Cargo Shed sits on harbour water. Until a registered land title is created any financial investment of ratepayers money on the building is a totally unacceptable risk.
Just another Council fiasco
Posted on 31-05-2013 10:58 | By Councillorwatch
Why is it that when Council gets involved I think things turn to custard? How about revealing the actual rent paid, it shouldn't be a secret? It's a business venture on all parts, and that's fine. Sell space and sell stuff or art or whatever you call it. Also make clear what Council pay Creative Tauranga every year. The paying public deserve full information.
Thank Goodness
Posted on 31-05-2013 21:03 | By DRich
Thank goodness there may be a future for the Cargo Shed beyond the current dubious fascination with insipid amateurish tat! Creative Tauranga have done a great job of building something from nothing, and now it is time to move forward
Cargo Shed lease and ownership
Posted on 01-06-2013 08:29 | By Murray.Guy
The lease to Creative Tauranga for the Cargo Shed is for a "Creative Arts Market and the letting of stalls within". The rent is $5500 pa incl GST It expires on 30 June 2013. For the most part the tenants have self managed their activities. The future for the Cargo Shed will only be resolved once the Council has resolved 'land ownership matters' with the Crown. The area on which the Cargo Shed sits is without title (early harbour board fill) and in Crown ownership.
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