Today’s presentation
Overview of City Life grants
Consider three dimensions: Whole of city through to local
Big impact or spread
Our responsibility or someone else?
What would an unbalanced program look like?
Some reflections - no conclusions
Tier 1
3 year funding in budget
At the ‘high end’ Riverfestival $768,000 Brisbane Festival
$512,000
Through to:• Brisbane Writers $25,000• Buddha’s Birthday
$20,000
Tier 2
3 year funding in budget
More focused interest
Things like: 4MBS Classics $10,000 Moorooka Street
Festival $10,000 Valley Jazz $5,000 Billy Cart Capers
$15,000
Tier 3
Single year funding
Competitive process
2005/06 budget of $270,000
Things like: Zillmere Multicultural
Festival $15,000 Sherwood Community
Festival $10,000 Vietnamese Tet $5,000
Issues
Getting on and off ‘the list’
Alternative supports for developing festivals
Commercial pressures
Joint partnership BCC and Dept of Housing
$2 million annually from BCC
Offer of vacant land
Good relationship with planning and development assessment
Dilemma: complementing not supplementing public housing
Brisbane Housing Company
$750,000 available annually
Grant in exchange for 10 year covenant to provide affordable housing
Maximum of $100,000 per developer
Low take up rate: covenant timing $ amount?
Private developers incentives
Community provider incentives
$400,000 available annually
Average of $900 to 144 groups
Important to some groups Maybe not all?
Balancing act 3Our responsibility or someone else’s?
Traditional ‘demarcation’ between levels of government
Long standing issue of cost-shifting
Different levels of government better placed for different things
Community doesn’t distinguish - just want results
When a level of government might go outside its arena
To get things started To fill a high priority
need To pressure other
levels To encourage
change/new direction Disputed space A ‘new’ or significantly
altered policy area
Works better when
Cooperation with other levels of government and community
Purposeful and planned
Scope of role clear and communicated
Solid political commitment