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COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE

TUESDAY 20 MAY 1997 - 3.00 vm

Present:- Provost Allan, Councillors Calvert, Morrison (M), Roach, Sir Simpson Stevenson, Welch and Hunter, Councillor Morrison (M), Convener, in the Chair.

In attendance:- The Assistant Chief Executive (Social and Community Development), Mr G

MacGillivray (for the Assistant Chief Executive (Contract Services)), Director of Central

Services, Mr C McCrone (for the Director of Finance), Mr H McNeilly (for the Director of

Legal Services), Director of Leisure and Recreation, Mr I Taylor (for the Director of Property

and Technical Services) and Mr I Hillier (for the Chief Consumer Protection and Trading

Standards Officer).

Apologies for absence were intimated on behalf of Councillors Finnie and Mulholland.

The following paragraphs are submitted for information only, having been dealt with under the powers delegated to the Committee.

580 CAPITAL PROGRAMME 1997/98 - TECHNICAL PROGRESS 580

SUBMITTED: Report dated 2 May 1997 by the Director of Property and Technical Services on progress of current projects and detailing variations to projects which require approval in terms of the Council’s Financial Regulations.

DECIDED:

(a) That the contents of the report be noted; and

(b) That the Committee approve the following items of expenditure:

Project Effect on Expenditure

Greenock Waterfront Leisure Complex -

(a) Site Inspectorate Phone Calls £5,000 increase

(b) Altering Chemical Store type work and Hydrochloric

Acid in lieu of CO₂ £7,000 increase

581 CAPITAL PROGRAMME 1997/98 - FINANCIAL PROGRESS 581

SUBMITTED: Report dated 2 May 1997 by the Director of Finance detailing the financial position of current and proposed projects included in the 1997/98 Capital Programme.

DECIDED:

(a) That the contents of the report be noted; and

(b) That the Policy and Strategy Committee be requested to approve the increase of £31,000 in respect of the Community Services Capital Programme.

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582 THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (PROTECTION FROM TOBACCO’) ACT 1991 582

SUBMITTED: Report dated 29 April 1997 by the Chief Consumer Protection and Trading Standards Officer advising of the level of enforcement activities carried out by the Department to protect young persons from tobacco and tobacco products and requesting that the Committee approve the enforcement strategy set out in paragraph 2 of the report.

DECIDED: That the contents of the report be noted and that the enforcement strategy outlined in paragraph 2 of the report be adopted.

583 PERFORMING ANIMALS 583

SUBMITTED: Report dated 1 May 1997 by the Director of Leisure and Recreation following consideration of this item from the previous meeting for further details relating to the application by Fiesta Entertainment Ltd to hold a circus with performing animals in Coronation Park, Port Glasgow. It was noted that the performing animals would comprise horses only.

DECIDED:

(a) That the Committee not adopt a policy for organisations using performing animals in the course of events in Council property but to consider individual requests on their merits; and

(b) That Fiesta Entertainment Ltd be permitted to hold a circus in terms outlined in the report at Coronation Park, Port Glasgow between 9 and 15 June 1997.

584 CLIENT REPORT 584

SUBMITTED: Report dated 1 May 1997 by the Director of Leisure and Recreation advising of the ground maintenance contractor’s performance in general terms, to identify the present ongoing works and to forecast items which will be addressed in the coming months.

NOTED

585 LEISURE UPDATE REPORT 585

SUBMITTED: Report dated 1 May 1997 by the Director of Leisure and Recreation advising the Committee of the forthcoming events at Sports Centres, Pools, Community Centres and Parks and Open Spaces and providing information on vandalism, service developments and similar other issues.

NOTED

586 RESOLUTION: EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC AND PRESS 586

On the motion of the Convener it was agreed unanimously that in terms of Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the undemoted items of business on the grounds that consideration of the items involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the respective paragraphs of Part I of Schedule 7A of the Act as are set opposite each item:

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Item Paragraph(s)
Battery Park Pavilion 8

Leisure Management Facilities Statistical Information 9
YRM Engineers Ltd 6&8
Waterfront Leisure Complex Update 6&8
Waterfront Leisure Complex: Catering Provision 6 & 8

587 BATTERY PARK PAVILION 587

SUBMITTED: Report by the Assistant Chief Executive (Contract Services) on proposals to operate a cafe facility within the Battery Park Pavilion.

DECIDED: That the proposal to provide a cafe service at the Battery Park Pavilion be agreed.

588 LEISURE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES STATISTICAL INFORMATION 588

SUBMITTED: Report dated 28 April 1997 by the Director of Leisure and Recreation advising

of the number of users and associated income for facilities run under the Leisure Management

Contract within the Department of Leisure and Recreation.

NOTED

589 YRM ENGINEERS LTD 589

There was submitted a report by the Director of Legal Services on the position relating to the consultant appointed by the Council to provide mechanical and electrical engineering services in relation to the Greenock Waterfront Leisure Complex, all as detailed in the Appendix.

590 WATERFRONT LEISURE COMPLEX UPDATE 590

SUBMITTED: Report dated 1 May 1997 by the Director of Leisure and Recreation outlining the present position at the Waterfront Leisure Complex.

NOTED

591 WATERFRONT LEISURE COMPLEX: CATERING PROVISION 591

SUBMITTED: Report dated 1 May 1997 by the Director of Leisure and Recreation advising of the position relating to the catering provision at the Greenock Waterfront Leisure Complex.

NOTED