Issue - meetings

Councillor Michael commended Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) for their handling of the Bromley Library Service during the eight-month strike action. GLL did an excellent job in ensuring that all the Borough’s libraries were kept open during the dispute, given that 50 regular staff (out of 110) took part in the action.

She was disappointed to note that the number of new library members fell by 12.5% in the past six months and asked to what extent was this due to the industrial action.  She also asked whether GLL would initiate a recruitment/marketing drive in order to boost the number of library members and users once the libraries had re-opened and things returned to normal.

Referring to Appendix 4 – Events and Activities, it was interesting to see that Orpington (119) had the largest number of events and activities in this period, closely followed by Petts Wood (116), while Central had only 40. In terms of attendees, it was interesting to see that West Wickham had the second largest number of attendees (1,498) after Orpington (1,704) despite holding only 46 events.

The report was noted.