Issue - meetings

With the assistance of a report by the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services to consider the contents of the Cultural Strategy.

Approved the contents of the Cultural Strategy for Huntingdonshire.

By way of a report by the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet were acquainted with the contents of a proposed Cultural Strategy for Huntingdonshire.

The Cabinet were reminded that the development and implementation of the Cultural Strategy was a key objective of the Huntingdonshire Local Strategic Partnership and would be used as a reference in the current review of the Community Strategy for Huntingdonshire.  In discussing the implementation of key recommendations contained in the paper, Executive Councillors emphasised the significant contributions already made from the Council’s current budget on cultural objectives and reiterated that the delivery of any new initiatives would need to be financed from alternative funding sources. Having also been acquainted with the deliberations of the Overview & Scrutiny Panel (Service Delivery) on the matter, it was

RESOLVED

  that the draft Cultural Strategy for Huntingdonshire be approved.