Issue - meetings

At the invitation of the Chairman, Councillor R. Hollingworth, Portfolio Holder for Youth and Leisure addressed the Board on this item.

The Board gave consideration to a report which had also recently been considered by Cabinet on the proposed Service Level Agreement (SLA) between the Council and the Artrix Operating Trust for the provision of services at the Arts Centre. It was reported that whilst the Council was committed to providing the Artrix with annual funding up to £120,000 for the provision of community services for a period of ten years from the opening date of 2005, there was at present no formal SLA between the Council and the Artrix Operating Trust. The community programme had therefore been developed by operational staff at the Artrix and was not shaped by the Council’s values or priorities.

The proposed SLA had been developed by Council officers and the Operating Trust’s officers and was intended to address the issues of ensuring that the community programme reflected the Council’s priorities, that best practice operating systems and procedures were delivered and that a performance framework was established to enable expected outcomes from the funding provided could be reviewed and revised as appropriate.

The Performance Management Board noted that a performance report in relation to the Artrix was contained in the Board’s Work Programme for November 2008.

RESOLVED  that the report, together with the resolutions from the Cabinet meeting held on 4th June 2008 be noted.