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Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place)

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Further to Minute 83 above, the Cabinet considered a private report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place), which set out the confidential aspects of proposals for the Council to enter into a Strategic Partnership with the Historic Coventry Trust for the transfer of the Council’s historic properties.

RESOLVED that the Cabinet recommend that Council:-

1.  Approve that the Council enter into the Framework Agreement with Historic Coventry Trust for a period of five years.

2.  Delegate authority to the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration to transfer identified assets to Historic Coventry Trust subject to receipt of a satisfactory business case and secured funding satisfying the set criteria.

3.  Appoint the Cabinet Member for Community Development to the Board of Trustees for the Historic Coventry Trust.

4.  Delegate authority to Legal Services Manager to execute all the necessary documentation to give effect to all the subsequent transfers.

5.  Approve the set criteria that the Historic Coventry Trust must satisfy in their business case before the historic asset transfer can be completed, as set out in paragraph 2.1.14 of the report submitted.

6.  Delegate authority to the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration, to make any subsequent variation in relation to the terms of the proposals in this report.