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Leisure Facilities - Establishment of New Trust
Meeting: 04/02/2014 - Cabinet (Item 11)
11 Leisure Facilities - Establishment of New Trust 
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Item LAA 13/048 referred from Leisure and Arts Advisory Board minutes of 9 December 2013
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(Item LAA 13/048 referred from Leisure and Arts Advisory Board Minutes of 9 December 2013)
Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Leisure and Arts Advisory Board of 9 December 2013.
The Cabinet resolved that:
The recommendations of the Leisure and Arts Advisory Board be approved as follows:
1) the successful transfer of the management of the Council's main leisure facilities to a new Trust be noted;
2) the proposed core charges outlined in Annex 1 to the report be approved and implemented from 1 April 2014; and
3) a report on the charges for Poult Wood Golf Centre be considered at the next meeting of the Advisory Board.
Minutes:
Decision Notice D140010CAB
Meeting: 09/12/2013 - Leisure and Arts Advisory Board (Item 48)
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The joint report of the Director of Street Scene and Leisure and the Director of Finance and Transformation gave an update on the successful transfer of the management of the Council's main leisure facilities to a new Trust on 1 November 2013. Reference was made to the recruitment of the Board of Trustees and election of Mr Alan Nicholl as its first Chairman. It was noted that regular update reports on the performance of the Trust against the agreed outcomes would be presented to the Advisory Board.
The report also brought forward a review of the core charges for each facility and explained the basis on which the Trust's proposals could be made in accordance with the Management Agreement. It was agreed that in future the percentage increases be shown in the schedule of proposed charges.
Members expressed appreciation of the efforts of everyone involved in establishment of the new Trust.
RECOMMENDED: That
(1) the successful transfer of the management of the Council's main leisure facilities to a new Trust be noted;
(2) the proposed core charges outlined in Annex 1 to the report be approved and implemented from 1 April 2014; and
(3) a report on the charges for Poult Wood Golf Centre be considered at the next meeting of the Advisory Board.