Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of a proposal to outsource the cafes at Medway Park and Strood sports centres to an external provider. Between 2013-2017 the cafes at Medway Park and Strood sports centres had been operated by Medway Norse at which point Medway Norse gave notice that they no longer wished to operate these cafes. Therefore, both cafes had been transferred to the Council on 1 September 2017, including an agreed TUPE of affected staff, pending the Council finding a new external supplier.

The report stated that the preferred option was to outsource the cafes because it was considered that this would provide the best customer service, whilst reducing budgetary expenditure and providing income certainty.

Reasons:

The outsourcing of the cafes to a dedicated external provider will provide better customer service, while providing income certainty and reducing service expenditure.