This Act establishes a Museum of Contemporary Art to be build by the Guild and owned and operated by the city.
The maintenance and operation can and should be outsourced to a private group
(either from within the guild or not – guild gets first choice). So there will be no “deed”.
Just a standard contract agreed between the City and the private group, where the
private group is entitled to all the revenues and benefits on the MoCA (and it even gets
the building for free), but the City owns the land beneath.
The “contract” should have a duration (say, 3 months) and set some goals (eg. number
of artistic & cultural events held there, number of visitors, traffic generated for the
City, etc.), and be automatically revalidated if all goals are achieved. If they aren’t, it’s
up to the City to discuss more reasonable goals, or make a new contract with a
different group.
passed 2 October 2005