Issue - items at meetings - Service Plan Monitoring

This report analyses performance by reference to the service plan, the budget and the performance indicators for all of the services funded through the Leisure and Culture budget.

Members considered a report that analysed performance by reference to the service plan, the budget and the performance indicators for all of the services funded through the leisure budget.

The report also detailed a number of suggested service cuts to offset a projected overspend of £196k in Sports & Active Leisure services.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised to:

(i) Note the performance of services within the directorate funded through the Leisure & Heritage budget;

(ii) Agree the additional savings proposed in paragraph 6 of the report, totalling £101k

(iii) Agree to fund any remaining budget shortfall up to a maximum of £95k from the Library Bookstock budget in 2006/07 with the recommendation to the Executive that this cost be met from contingency.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED: That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON: To update the Executive Member and manage the budget effectively.

Members considered a report that analysed performance by reference to the service plan, the budget and the performance indicators for all of the services funded through the leisure budget.

The report also detailed a number of suggested service cuts to offset a projected overspend of £196k in Sports & Active Leisure services created largely by the delay in the sale of the Barbican and the consequent delay in the planned capital investment in Edmund Wilson and Yearsley pools.