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The Weekend Sun
Cargo Shed face off
Tauranga City Council is blowing the whistle on the Cargo Shed’s on-going dispute between lessee Creative Tauranga and the shed’s quayholders. Council staff decided yesterday to get both parties to present their proposals for the future management of the shed on Dive Crescent at the Projects and Monitoring Committee meeting on Monday, June 10. The decision follows a recent presentation by stallholder representatives, excluding Flux Coffee, to council requesting to lease the shed directly from council due to the inability to work effectively with Creative Tauranga. Now both Creative Tauranga and stallholders will have 10 minutes to present their case to council, outlining their future visions including activities, experiences, potential customers and
what they expect to attract, opening hours, assistance required and promotion of the venue. The proposals are required to align with the Cargo 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. They responded by taking the matter to the annual plan hearings 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 for the month of June 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, when the organisation’s current lease expires. But tenants rejected the letter saying the conditions are unacceptable. They packed up in disgust over the “unethical, immoral, and aggressive” communications they say are coming from Creative Tauranga. Creative Tauranga is a government and council funded organisation. City council communications manager Frank Begley says the rent Creative Tauranga pays on the Cargo Shed is somewhere between a ‘peppercorn’ and commercial rate. It is a rate designed to enable a community arts venue to operate. By Andrew Campbell
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