Issue - meetings

To present the fees and charges for 2009/10 for Leisure Services that were the subject of a request for further Officer consideration at the Council meeting on 19 January 2009. This item updates the Fees and Charges report presented to the Executive Committee on 7 January and includes a recommendation to approve the Fees and Charges in their entirety as submitted at that time. Should any Member wish to receive a further copy of the entire Fees and Charges Booklet please contact Committee Services.

(Report attached)

The Council considered once again the Fees and Charges for 2009/10, incorporating the additional information that had been requested at the last ordinary meeting of the Council in respect of the charges for Leisure Services.

Members were being asked to consider the approval of the Fees and Charges in their entirety following deferral of the recommendations at the meeting on 19 January. There were two additional amendments to those reported to the meeting in January that were tabled on the evening in respect of the charge for beverages in the Civic Suite and the incremental charges for the collection of additional items of bulky waste.

RESOLVED that

1)         in cases where;-

a)         fees or charges are statutory;

b)        fees and charges are set externally (for example under the Model Scheme of Charges for Building Control fees and charges);

c)         the Council has delegated authority for Officers to vary fees and charges to take account of various circumstances; or

d)        fees and charges are established under separate processes, for example the setting of Taxi Fares,

            the requirement for a general minimum 5% increase in fees and charges be waived;

2)         the proposed fees and charges for 2009/10, as listed in the appendices to the report submitted to the Executive Committee on 7 January 2009 and subject to the amendments recommended below, be approved;

3)         the requirement for a general minimum 5% increase in fees and charges for Leisure Services be waived;

4)         the proposed fees and charges as detailed in Appendices 1 and 2 to the additional report be approved; and

5)         the concessionary element of the Reddicard be reduced from 50% to 25%.