Meeting documents

To consider a report by the Head of Legal and Democratic Services (Reference HLDS/07/65) first submitted to Cabinet on 18 December 2007.

To agree to enter into the final form of agreements for transfer of the Museums and  Gallery Service to the Scarborough Museums Trust as follows:

(a)    a Services Agreement relating to the provision of the entire Museums and Gallery Service by the Trust;

(b)    a Service Level Agreement setting out services the Council will continue to make available to the Trust, and the terms upon which those services will be available;

(c)     a Collections Agreement relating to the management of all collections held by the Council;

(d)    a lease of the Rotunda Museum;

(e)    a sub-lease of Wood End (as tenant of the Creative Industries Centre);

(f)      a licence to occupy the Art Gallery, pending consideration of future proposals for enhancement of the building;

(g)    a sub-lease of the Museum Store at Unit 10, Eastfield;

(h)   a short term business lease of Londesborough Lodge to the Scarborough

Museums Trust for the period that the Trust will be leasing the building pending completion on comparable terms to those that would have applied had the Trust been able to move into Wood End Museum from 1 January 2008;

(i)   entry into a loan agreement to the Trust providing the sum of £50,000  repayable over two years to fund fundraising activity being undertaken by the Trust toward continuing operations (agreed by Council on 29 October 2007 report HFS0720); and

(j)      entry into an Admissions Agreement with Scarborough Museums Trust and North Yorkshire County Council to enable Scarborough Museums Trust to become an admitted body.