Four-year plan for the promotion of culture in Bern
The municipal council of the City of Bern (the executive) has adopted a planning paper for the 2016 to 2019 subsidy period, which is now going out for consultation. The planning shows which priorities will be set.
From 2016, the city is to spend CHF 20.83 million per year on the institutions jointly financed with the canton and regional municipalities in the area of the Presidential Directorate; the majority of this will go to Konzert Theater Bern. This amount includes an increase of around CHF 500,000 in total, spread across the eight institutions.
In future, CHF 6.27 million is to be spent on the eleven new institutions subsidized exclusively by the city; this includes a gross subsidy increase of CHF 316,000.
Finally, the credits for direct promotion (project contributions, cultural exchange, investment contributions and others) are to be significantly increased, namely by around CHF 670,000. This is not least in response to a long-standing request from the City Council to increase the proportion of direct funding in the total volume.
Overall, the planned increases amount to 4.7 percent; the premiums for multi-year contracts remain constant over the entire term.
The consultation on the four-year plan will last until the end of August 2014. The new service contracts should be submitted to the municipal council as early as December 2014. The corresponding credit decisions by the city council are planned for March 2015, the referendum on June 14, 2015.
More info: Consultation draft
