Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Deputy Chief Executive regarding an offer from Yorkshire County Cricket Club to repay the outstanding loan that the Council provided in 2005 in order to enable them to purchase the Headingley cricket ground. The report explains the offer to the Council as being part of the Cricket Club’s proposed wider financial restructuring, and sets out the matters which the Council needs to consider in deciding whether to accept the offer from the Club.

Appendix B to this report is designated as exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3).

Further to Minute No. 184, 14^th January 2009, the Deputy Chief Executive submitted a report regarding an offer from Yorkshire County Cricket Club to repay the outstanding loan that the Council provided in 2005 in order to enable them to purchase the Headingley cricket ground. The report explained the offer to the Council as being part of the Cricket Club’s proposed wider financial restructuring, and set out the matters which the Council needed to consider in determining whether to accept the offer from the Club.

Following consideration of Appendix B to the submitted report, designated as exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3), which was considered in private at the conclusion of the meeting, it was

RESOLVED – That approval be given to accept a payment of £6,500,000 from Yorkshire County Cricket Club in full settlement of the Council’s loan to the Club.