City of Aarau gets a culture department
The city of Aarau will have a new "Culture" department as of January 1, 2019. It comprises areas that are currently part of the City Chancellery: Department Management and the Culture Secretariat as well as the museum, the library and the city archive.
The management of the Culture Department and the Culture Secretariat are to comprise a total of 120 full-time equivalents. The City of Aarau is advertising the position of the future head externally. The new head of department will also be responsible for all commissions in the cultural sector, which are also being restructured.
Other tasks include supporting budgeting and ensuring controlling functions, overseeing City Council business in the cultural sector and representing cultural issues within the city administration and vis-à-vis the City Council and third parties.
The city's cultural sector has grown over the last twenty years. Aarau has developed into a city of culture and has made a name for itself with its cultural activities far beyond the borders of the canton and the country, writes the city. With the creation of the new department, "a strengthening of the organizational and management structures, a level-appropriate processing of specialist issues, the uniform processing of cross-sectional functions and increased organizational flexibility can be achieved".
