Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Economy, Regeneration & Housing. 

The report seeks Cabinet approval for the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the council and Stockport County Football Club.   

The Cabinet is recommended to:-

(1) Approve the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and Stockport County Football Club to set out how we will work together to deliver our shared objectives; and

(2) Delegate authority to the Director of Development and Regeneration (Place), in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources and Economy, Regeneration and Housing, to enter into the Memorandum of Understanding; and

(3) Delegate authority for the Assistant Director (Legal & Democratic Governance), to take such steps and complete such agreements as are necessary to implement the resolutions recommended in this report and any decisions properly made under authority delegated by these resolutions.

Officer contact: Paul Richards on 0161 474 2940 or email:  paul.richards@stockport.gov.uk

The Cabinet Member for Economy, Regeneration & Climate Change (Councillor Colin MacAlister) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing a proposed Memorandum of Understanding between the council and Stockport County Football Club.

RESOLVED - (1) That approval be given to the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and Stockport County Football Club to set out how we will work together to deliver our shared objectives; and

(2) That authority be delegated to the Director of Development and Regeneration (Place), in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources and Economy, Regeneration and Housing, to enter into the Memorandum of Understanding; and

(3) That authority be delegated to the Assistant Director (Legal & Democratic Governance), to take such steps and complete such agreements as are necessary to implement the resolutions recommended in this report and any decisions properly made under authority delegated by these resolutions.

To consider a report of the Director of Development and Regeneration. 

The report seeks Cabinet approval for the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the council and Stockport County Football Club.   

The Scrutiny Committee is requested to note the report. 

Officer contact: Paul Richards 0161 474 2940 | paul.richards@stockport.gov.uk

The Director of Development and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) seeking Cabinet approval for the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the council and Stockport County Football Club.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:

·         The Memorandum of Understanding would establish the ways in which the council and the club intended to work together and would build on the positive partnership working and good will that already existed.

·         It was reported that the club was an asset to the borough, and the work the club did in the community was commendable.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.