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To enable Cabinet to give consideration to a recommendation made by the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee in respect of the Council’s formal consultation response to the above draft Strategy.

RESOLVED that the proposed consultation response, as attached as Appendix B to item A.3 of the Reference from the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee, be approved as this Council’s formal response to Essex County Council’s consultation on its “Essex Future Library Services Strategy 2019 – 2024”.

For the record and as a point of information Councillors G V Guglielmi, I J Henderson and P B Honeywood each reminded the meeting that they were also elected Members of Essex County Council.

Cabinet was aware that the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee, at its meeting held on 28 January 2019, had considered the consultation being undertaken by Essex County Council on its draft strategy for the future of library services over the next five years. The proposed strategy was based on the views gathered from the public in 2018 and the consultation would close on 20 February 2019.

The full strategy and a consultation response proposed by that Committee were attached at appendices A and B respectively to item A.3 of the Reference from the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

Having considered the strategy together with the proposed consultation response:-

It was moved by Councillor McWilliams, seconded by Councillor Fairley and:-

RESOLVED that the proposed consultation response, as attached as Appendix B to item A.3 of the Reference from the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee, be approved as this Council’s formal response to Essex County Council’s consultation on its “Essex Future Library Services Strategy 2019 – 2024”.