Question 7: Consultant's Brief

Question 7: Have you as aldermen been involved in developing the brief for the consultant/s(?) and if so to what extent and at what point? 

Response: The Aldermen have been involved in setting the policy framework through ongoing discussions with the General Manager and the consideration of the Council report referred to previously. See response to Question 5. 

MY RESPONSE: Again, the question was addressed to the Aldermen individually and collectively and not management. That said I have been advised that Robyn Archer [1] is the consultant in question. By inference in previous statements here it would seem that she is being asked to provide ‘policy and strategic’ recommendations somewhat in isolation from the city’s ‘cultural realities’, 

The QVMAG’s Community of Ownership and Interest (COI) [1] • [2] where this set of policy recommendations might apply and the imperatives that define Launceston as a place seeking to attract cultural tourist etc. do not seem to have been engaged with.