Public Question Time (15 minutes)
To receive any questions from members of the public provided that a question does not relate to:
· Matters which are the subject of current or pending legal proceedings, or
· Matters relating to employees or former employees of the Council or comments in respect of individual Council Officers
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Minutes:
5.1 A member of the public asked two questions. The first question was as follows:
According to the report entitled 'The Future Marketing of Gloucester', section 6.5 to strengthen other aspects of the city's marketing collateral, states how little quality marketing collateral has been left behind with the Tourist Information team with very limited material to hand out. It is proposed to produce a visitor guide for 2021 as a quick fix. Please can you confirm why the Tourist Information Centre has been left with so little material when there was a requirement for Marketing Gloucester to produce this marketing material and would have presumably had a budget attached funded by Gloucester City Council and please can you confirm what the money was spent on instead?
5.2 The second question was as follows:
According to the report entitled 'The Future Marketing of Gloucester' section 6.1 to appoint a small but highly focused 'place marketing' team within Gloucester City Council for an initial period of at least two years, states six key tasks for this proposed team. The report also recommends at section 6.8 the development of a really strong events and festivals programme that reflects and builds the city's new narrative. This is not listed as a key task in section 6.1, not is there any indication of a budget to support a really strong events and festivals programme. Please can you therefore confirm who will be responsible for the development of the events and festivals programme and where the funding will come from as Appendix 2, budget for the Destination Marketing function within GCC, paragraph 2 refers to a figure of £215,000 from the Destination Marketing budget being spent on Events and Festivals. Is this £215,000 a historic figure or is this a figure for any future events and festivals
5.3 The Chair advised that the questions were likely to be addressed by the Cabinet Member and Officers during the course of the discussion on agenda item 8.