THAT:

(a)       authority be delegated to the Director for Economy, Communities and Corporate, in consultation with the Cabinet Members for Corporate Services and Contracts and Assets, to implement changes to service delivery (points 17-26) in order to release savings for April 2015;

(b)       consideration be given to closing the customer services centre at Franklin House and offering a combined customer and library service at the Broad Street site; and

(c)       should the decision taken in respect of recommendation (b) above be to progress a combined customer and library service at the Broad Street site, the cost of modernising the premises be financed through capital receipts from the disposal of selected operational properties to avoid extending the council’s borrowing requirements