Agenda and decisions
PDF 176 KBVenue: The Leader's Office, County Hall, Kington upon Thames, KT1 2DN
Contact: Andrew Baird
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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting.
Notes: · In line with the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012, declarations may relate to the interest of the member, or the member’s spouse or civil partner, or a person with whom the member is living as husband or wife, or a person with whom the member is living as if they were civil partners and the member is aware they have the interest. · Members need only disclose interests not currently listed on the Register of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests. · Members must notify the Monitoring Officer of any interests disclosed at the meeting so they may be added to the Register. · Members are reminded that they must not participate in any item where they have a disclosable pecuniary interest. |
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PROCEDURAL MATTERS
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Members' Questions
(i) The deadline for Members’ questions is 12pm four working days before the meeting (06/10/2016).
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Public Questions
The deadline for public questions is seven days before the meeting (05/10/2016).
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Petitions
The deadline for petitions was 14 days before the meeting, and no petitions have been received.
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Four Year Funding Settlement
The executive decision to accept or decine the Goverment’s four year settlement offer has been delegated to the Leader of the Council for decision following a discission at the Full Council meeting on 11 October 2016.
The report for this item is marked to follow and will be available at the meeting on 12 October. Decision: The Leader determined that Surrey County Council should not accept the multi-year funding settlement offered by the Government. |
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Support For The Watts Gallery 'Physical Energy' Bi-Centennial Sculpture Project
G.F. Watts was a leading Victorian artist with major connections and associations with Surrey. The Watts Gallery and Studios are an important cultural and tourism asset for the county. In connection with his bi-centennial year in 2017 there is an ambition to create a new casting of Watts’ iconic sculpture ‘Physical Energy’. The Watts Gallery Trust will be running an appeal to fund this new piece of art. Specialist foundries capable of undertaking this work have limited capacity and there is likely to be a long time scale associated with the casting of such an important fine art sculpture. In order to deliver the project in time for the Watts bi-centennial celebrations, the Watts Gallery may need to commission the casting before the fundraising campaign is completed. In order to ensure that this major new piece of public art will form a centre piece of the bicentennial celebrations, it is proposed that Surrey County Council provides an interest free loan, up to a value not exceeding £140,000, to enable the Trust to commission the casting alongside an active fund raising campaign. Decision: It is recommended that the Leader agrees to the Council offering an interest free loan to the Watts Gallery Trust for an amount not exceeding £140,000 for the purpose of the commissioning of casting of G.F. Watts sculpture ‘Physical Energy’ – subject to satisfactory financial and legal due diligence and the following conditions:-
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