Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Healthy LIfestyles

RESOLVED THAT

1.    the procurement of the Shopmobility Service be instigated ; and

2.    contribution equal to the value of the net savings generated in year’s 1 to 5 be made into the budget strategy (support) reserve be approved.

The Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles introduced the report and reminded Cabinet that in September 2015 they had resolved that the Shopmobility service be put to a commissioning process, having examined the results of the consultation exercise which strongly supported continuation of the service. The report summarised the results of early market engagement regarding the service and recommended moving to procurement.

She explained that the procurement exercise would enable usage of the service to be increased which could also increase the level of spend on tourism that shopmobility brought into the town. The aim was for a 5 year decrease in the cost of the service and to make it self sustaining in the long run. The mechanism should ensure that all those who required assistance with mobility could access it.

RESOLVED THAT

1.    the procurement of the Shopmobility Service be instigated ; and

2.    contribution equal to the value of the net savings generated in year’s 1 to 5 be made into the budget strategy (support) reserve be approved.