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(a)      Notes that a designed
evaluation document will be circulated in the new year with full
budgets included in the year end budget pack;
(b)      Instructs the Chief
Officer – City Development and Regeneration to engage with
cultural and heritage partners to develop Festival of the Sea 2026,
in order to build upon the legacy of Tall Ships and by allocating
monies from the Coastal Communities Fund and seeking further grants
and private sponsorship to support; and
(c)      Instructs the Chief
Officer – City Development and Regeneration to work with
regional youth sail training partners to ensure opportunities for
young people from Aberdeen to take part in the Tall Ships Races
2026 on a fully-funded basis; and to seek grants and sponsorship to
widen this programme as far as possible. AND
(1)      Instructs the Chief
Officer – City Development and Regeneration, in consultation
with Port of Aberdeen and Sail Training International, to take the
necessary steps to bid to host the Tall Ships Races in Aberdeen as
early as 2030; and
(2)      Instructs the Chief
Officer – Finance to include an additional  £30,000 in the General Fund Revenue budget
from 2026/27 onwards to continue to build upon the legacy and story
established by The Tall Ships Races Aberdeen 2025, to provisionally
cover costs of 10 Sail Trainees participating in the Tall Ships
Races each year moving forward.