Arts tender accepted by council

Council said the shortfall can either be diverted from other areas, or covered by grants funding.

During the monthly meeting last week, the mood of most councillors is to simply ‘‘move forward and put the issue to bed’’.

Council was presented with four recommendations including borrowing money, deferring the project or scraping its plans all together.

Despite Cr John Taylor’s suggestion to reconsider and take a careful approach, his stance was not supported by his fellow councillors. Cr Taylor had his dissent to moving forward recorded.

Cr Denis Glanville said the issues have been going for too long and there was no point delaying the initial agreement made last year.