Issue - meetings

This report is intended to provide Members with an update on progress following the decision at Executive EMAP in March 2006 to support the development of a managed workspace scheme at Clifton Moor under the capital programme and to lease new managed workspace from the developer Helmsley Group.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i)                 Note the content of this report and the progress made towards the establishment of the new Eco Business Centre;

(ii)               Approve that a two-year Service Level Agreement to YSMBAC (York, Selby & Malton Business Advice Centres Ltd) be issued to manage the Eco Business Centre.

Decision of the Executive Leader

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

REASON:                  To update the Executive Member, and due to the uncertainty presented by the current tendering of the regional business support contract by Yorkshire Forward which will be settled within the proposed two year period

Members considered a report which intended to provide Members with an update on progress following the decision at Executive EMAP in March 2006 to support the development of a managed workspace scheme at Clifton Moor under the capital programme, and to lease new managed workspace from the developer Helmsley Group.

The report presented two options:

i)          that York, Selby and Malton Business Advice Centres Ltd (YSMBAC) should manage the Eco Business Centre on behalf of CYC for 2 years until the result of the current tendering exercise by Yorkshire Forward is known;

ii)         that a tender exercise should be undertaken to seek a management company who could manage the centre and also provide a high-quality business advice service to tenants - crucial to the ethos of the centre.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i)                 Note the content of this report and the progress made towards the establishment of the new Eco Business Centre;

(ii)               Approve that a two-year Service Level Agreement to YSMBAC (York, Selby & Malton Business Advice Centres Ltd) be issued to manage the Eco Business Centre.

Decision of the Executive Leader

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

REASON:                  To update the Executive Member, and due to the uncertainty presented by the current tendering of the regional business support contract by Yorkshire Forward which will be settled within the proposed two year period