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Experience Wellington the council-controlled organisation that oversees Wellington museums for the Wellington City Council has unveiled a confidential ‘change proposal’ to staff only. It involves significant centralisation of previously separate institutions. For City Gallery, it disestablishes the key positions of Director and Chief Curator and redistributes other staff into trust-wide teams.
The proposal has been presented as ‘operational’, therefore not requiring public consultation. However, the changes are structural, substantial, and far reaching. They will dramatically and forever change the nature of the Gallery, how it operates, and what it can deliver.
De-professionalisation will undermine the specialist networks and relationships that have enabled the Gallery to secure key loans and exhibitions, such as the upcoming
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Wellington City Councillors have voted 11-3 to add mana whenua representation to council committees.
From July 1, Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and Ngāti Toa Rangatira will each have members with voting rights on all council committees and subcommittees except the CEO Performance Review Committee, the city’s two community boards and the District Licensing Committee.
The recommendation stems from a notice of motion successfully introduced by Councillor Jill Day (Ngāti Tuwharetoa) last year.
Mayor Andy Foster voted for the move, despite his concern it had not been subject to full community consultation.