Make Poet Laureate Program permanent through EC3
General Committee makes recommendations; City Council makes the final decision.
We haven’t matched this to Council’s final vote yet. Committee recommendations normally go to the City Council meeting on March 28, 2022.
Councillor Votes
Full Resolution Text
That Council approve the recommendations outlined in Report CSACH22-007, dated March 7, 2022 of the Commissioner of Community Services as follows: a) That the recommendation of the Arts, Culture and Heritage Advisory Committee (ACHAC) to have the City of Peterborough’s Poet Laureate Program become a permanent program administered by the Electric City Culture Council (EC3) in consultation with the Manager of Arts, Culture and Heritage and funded through the Arts, Culture and Heritage budget, in the amount of $2,000 be approved; b) That an annual report of the program be presented to the Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee; and c) That the Poet be formally introduced to Council through attendance at a Council meeting during their term of appointment.