Agenda item

Report by Executive Director – Customer Services.

The Committee considered a report which requested that Members decide upon the future of the items identified in this report in line with the protocol outlined at section 4.2.

Decision:

Members agreed:-

(1)  That arrangements are made for the items identified at 4.3.2 and 4.4.2 to be moved to the Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre and displayed at appropriate locations within the building;

(2)  To loan the Boer War Memorial to the Heritage Trust and to delegate authority to the Executive Director of Customer Services to draw up such legal agreement as required;

(3)  That the William Yellowlees painting is relocated to the Helensburgh Library to be part of the permanent exhibition on Henry Bell;

(4)  To delegate to the Area Committee Manager in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair to identify a suitable location within Helensburgh for the display of the ceremonial chairs located in the Municipal Buildings and in the Marriage Rooms, and if no location can be identified that they are subject to formal valuation and arrangements are made for them to be sold; and

(5)  That the furniture identified at 4.3.1 and 4.4.1 is subject to formal valuation and arrangements are thereafter made for the sale of this furniture to be progressed with the proceeds from the sale being used to facilitate the display of the civic items

Councillor Freeman, having moved an amendment which failed to find a seconder, required his dissent from the foregoing decision to be recorded.

(Ref:  Report by Executive Director – Customer Services dated 9 September 2016, submitted.)