Agenda item

Notices of Motion

1.    PROPOSED BY COUNCILLOR HILTON

 

“This council notes the closure of city council leisure and sports facilities following the collapse of Aspire Sports and Cultural Trust that operated GL1 Leisure Centre and the Oxstalls Tennis Centre on the council’s behalf.


This council agrees that the public and users of these sports facilities should not have to wait 12 months before they are reopened.


This council calls on the administration to reopen these facilities as early as possible using staff directly employed by the city council if necessary.”

Minutes:

42.1    Councillor Hilton proposed and Councillor Wilson seconded the following motion:

 

“This council notes the closure of city council leisure and sports facilities following the collapse of Aspire Sports and Cultural Trust that operated GL1 Leisure Centre and the Oxstalls Tennis Centre on the council’s behalf.

 

This council agrees that the public and users of these sports facilities should not have to wait 12 months before they are reopened.

 

This council calls on the administration to reopen these facilities as early as possible using staff directly employed by the city council if necessary.”

 

42.2    Councillor Cook moved, and Councillor Lewis seconded the following amendment:

 

“This council notes the closure of city council leisure and sports facilities following the collapse of Aspire Sports and Cultural Trust that operated GL1 Leisure Centre and the Oxstalls Tennis Centre on the council’s behalf.

 

This council agrees that the public and users of these sports facilities should not have to wait 12 months before they are reopened.

 

This council calls on the administration to reopen these facilities as early as possible using Aspire’s former staff directly employed engaged by the city council’s interim service provider if necessary where possible.”

 

42.3    Councillor Hilton accepted the amendment, which became part of the substantive motion.

 

42.4    Councillor Field moved, and Councillor Hyman seconded the following amendment:

 

“This council notes the closure of city council leisure and sports facilities following the collapse of Aspire Sports and Cultural Trust that operated GL1 Leisure Centre and the Oxstalls Tennis Centre on the council’s behalf. 

 

This council calls on the cabinet member for culture and leisure to provide a written apology to the staff of Aspire, the users of the sports centres, to members of the council and city council taxpayers for his administration’s failure to negotiate a continuation of the contract with Aspire, which would have stopped the dramatic closure of the council’s sports facilities. 

 
This council agrees that the public and users of these sports facilities should not have to wait 12 months before they are fully reopened. 

 

This council calls on the administration to reopen these facilities as early as possible using Aspire’s former staff engaged by the city council’s interim service provider where possible.”

 

42.5    Councillor Hilton requested that the amendment be put to the vote and five Members of the Liberal Democrat Group requested that votes be recorded. The vote was lost.

 

Councillor

For

Against

Abstaining

Williams

 

Y

 

Hudson

 

Y

 

Cook

 

Y

 

Norman

 

Y

 

S. Chambers

 

Y

 

Lewis

 

Y

 

Padillia

 

Y

 

Hilton

Y

 

 

Chambers-Dubus

Y

 

 

Gravells

 

Y

 

Tracey

 

Y

 

Morgan

 

Y

 

Wilson

Y

 

 

Bhaimia

 

Y

 

D. Brown

Y

 

 

Taylor

 

Y

 

Field

Y

 

 

Patel

 

Y

 

Brooker

 

Y

 

J. Brown

Y

 

 

Hyman

Y

 

 

Finnegan

 

Y

 

Ackroyd

 

Y

 

A. Chambers

 

Y

 

Dee

 

Y

 

Evans

 

Y

 

Kubaszczyk

 

Y

 

Radley

Y

 

 

Zaman

 

Y

 

Sawyer

Y

 

 

Campbell

 

Y

 

Trimnell

Y

 

 

Total:

10

22

0

 

42.6    RESOLVED that:

 

This council notes the closure of city council leisure and sports facilities following the collapse of Aspire Sports and Cultural Trust that operated GL1 Leisure Centre and the Oxstalls Tennis Centre on the council’s behalf.

 

This council agrees that the public and users of these sports facilities should not have to wait 12 months before they are reopened.

 

This council calls on the administration to reopen these facilities as early as possible using Aspire’s former staff engaged by the city council’s interim service provider where possible.

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