Issue - meetings

To consider report 5/11 of the head of economy, leisure and property. 

The committee is asked to consider whether:

• to accept the report, or
• to require the client officer and contractor to attend a future meeting of the committee to answer questions. 

The committee considered report 5/11 of the head of economy, leisure and property.  This set out the 2010/11 leisure contract monitoring report for DC Leisure, which ran the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre in Abingdon.  The options open to the committee were:

• to accept the report and recommend that the Cabinet member for economy, leisure and property agrees with the officer that the contractor should be awarded a ‘fair’ assessment, or
• to require the council’s contract monitoring officer, the contractor, and the relevant Cabinet member to attend a future meeting of the Scrutiny Committee to answer questions on the contractor’s performance. 

At its meeting in January 2011, the committee had considered the last monitoring report and had requested trend analysis in future reports.  However, this was not included in the latest report.  The committee asked for the council’s contract monitoring officer, the contractor, and the relevant Cabinet member to attend a future meeting of the Scrutiny Committee to answer questions on the contractor’s performance.  The committee asked for an action plan to improve the service at the centre, and asked for details of internal services that had responded to the survey questionnaire.  The committee also requested that the report should look at usage of the leisure centre in 2010/11 and previous years and at how this could be increased in future years. 

RESOLVED:

(a)       To require the council’s contract monitoring officer, the contractor (DC Leisure), and the relevant Cabinet member to attend a future meeting of the Scrutiny Committee to answer questions on the contractor’s performance; and

(b)       To request that the monitoring report should be amended to include trend analysis on usage of the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, details of the internal services’ response to the survey questionnaire, and an action plan to increase use of the centre and improve the service.