H&F Cabinet Decision for Barons Court Library 5 December 2011

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Update on implementation of Libraries Strategy : Barons Court Community Library/ Avonmore Neighbourhood Centre  PDF 85 KB View the background to item 11. View the decision for item 11. Additional documents: EIA Barons Court Library, item 11.  PDF 47 KB Decision: That, in order to deliver the MTFS savings for 2011/12 and develop the More Than a Library concept via a community run service, the following actions be approved: 1.            To work with Hammersmith and Fulham Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) to deliver a community library (the upper ground floor of Barons Court Library is leased to CAB to use half the space for its principal services and the other half a combined Self Service library and CAB waiting area, managed by CAB volunteers), the duration, rent and other terms of such lease to be as the Assistant Director Building Property Management and the Assistant Director (Legal and Democratic Services) consider appropriate. 2.            To note the financial risks if there continue to be costs associated with the lower ground floor, and issues related to the covenant, as outlined in the exempt report. 3.            That approval be given for an order to be placed under the Measured Term Contract for Non-Housing Projects 2011/2015. This procurement route is based on a framework agreement with three contractors. 4.            That the contract be awarded to Mulalley & Company Limited, at an estimated works cost of  £308,000 (including a contingency of £40,000) to which fees of £47,000 will be added, making a total cost of £355,000. The funding for this project will be met from the Corporate Planned Maintenance Programme 2011/2012 as approved by Cabinet on 7 February 2011 and the agreed protocol for variation as delegated to the Executive Director of Finance and Corporate Governance and the Assistant Director Building and Property Management. 5.            That the site be closed in January 2012 for a period of up to ten weeks (although this will be kept to a minimum), to allow  refurbishment works to take place, with authority delegated to the Cabinet Member for Residents Services, in consultation with the Executive Director of Environment, Leisure and Residents Services, to vary those dates should occasion require. 6.            To continue to draw down from corporate  contingencies the sum of £13k  per month should the site remain open beyond January 2012.

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