Agenda item

Associate Libraries

It was moved by Councillor Andrew Sangar, seconded by Councillor Vickie Priestley, that this Council:-

(a)       thanks all the hard-working volunteers at all of the city’s Associate Libraries;

(b)       recognises that the Associate Library groups need security over funding in order to effectively deliver services; and

(c)        recommends to the Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods that the funding for Associate Libraries should continue at no less than the current level in the next financial year.

Whereupon, it was moved by Councillor Isobel Bowler, seconded by Councillor Ibrar Hussain, as an amendment, that the Motion now submitted be amended by the deletion of paragraph (c) and the addition of a new paragraph (c) as follows:-

(c)        welcomes that the present Administration have already committed that the funding for Associate Libraries will continue at no less than the current level in the next financial year.

On being put to the vote, the amendment was carried.

The original motion, as amended, was then put as a Substantive Motion in the following form and carried:-

Resolved: that this Council:-

(a)       thanks all the hard-working volunteers at all of the city’s Associate Libraries;

(b)       recognises that the Associate Library groups need security over funding in order to effectively deliver services; and

c)         welcomes that the present Administration have already committed that the funding for Associate Libraries will continue at no less than the current level in the next financial year.