Decision details
Future Management of Ellesmere Library Service and Customer Service Point
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The Portfolio Holder for Business, ip&e, Culture and Commissioning and the Porfolio Holder for Resources, Finance and Support and I.T. considered a report by the Director of Commissioning on the future management of Ellesmere Library Service and Customer Service Point.
Decision:
RESOLVED:
1. That the management of Ellesmere library is transferred from Shropshire Council to a new organisation to be confirmed following an open procurement exercise. This will be supported by a contract between Shropshire Council and the new managing organisation, details of which will be confirmed following negotiations.
2. That the management of Ellesmere Customer Service Point is transferred from Shropshire Council to a new organisation to be confirmed following an open procurement exercise. Similarly this will be supported by a contract between Shropshire Council and the new managing organisation, details of which will be confirmed following negotiations.
3. That authority be delegated to the Director of Commissioning in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Business, ip&e, Culture and Commissioning (North) to take any further consequential decisions relating to the transfer of the library.
4. That authority be delegated to the Director of Public Health in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Resources & Support to take any further consequential decisions relating to the transfer of the customer service point.
Reason(s) for decision:
The opportunity to provide a sustainable future for the library and Customer Service Point in a new location in Ellesmere and the creation of a community hub.
The opportunity to utilise Transformation Challenge Award funding in the completion of building improvements and in the successful delivery of the wider Community Hub programme in Shropshire, should the timescale of the transfer meet TCA funding requirements
Publication date: 17/12/2015
Date of decision: 17/12/2015
Decided at meeting: 17/12/2015 - Joint Decision Making Session by Portfolio Holder for Business, ip&e, Culture and Commissioning and the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Resources and Support and I.T.
Effective from: 06/01/2016
Accompanying Documents:
- 1 Future Management of Ellesmere Library Service and Customer Service Point PDF 253 KB
- 1 Appendix 1 Soft Market Testing Prospectus PDF 112 KB
- 1 Appendix 2 Ellesmere Library and Customer Service Point public consultation documents PDF 267 KB
- 1 Appendix 3 Ellesmere Library and Customer Service Point Public Consultation Results and Comments PDF 144 KB
- 1 Appendix 4 ESIIA Assessment for Ellesmere Library and Customer Service Point PDF 344 KB