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EDINBURGH LEISURE BOARD SUB COMMITTEE MEETINGCOACHING / DRY ACTIVITIESTHURSDAY 29 TH OCTOBER 2009PRESENT:Neil Brown, Perrotine Orr, Sandy Sutherland , Douglas AdamsonNOTEACTION1. INTRODUCTION & REFERENCE TO AGENDA ITEMS1.1 NB referred to the sub committee’s recent meeting of 27 th August and plannedmeeting for early December, however given the Board’s wishes of 30 thSeptember, this meeting would be focused solely on the scrutiny of the coaching/ dry activities budgets.Info2. BOARD REQUEST FOR SCRUTINY OF INCOME AND EXPENDITUREBUDGETS2.1 NB referred to the September Board Meeting and more specifically the Board’swishes to look at 3 specific areas in terms of finance such as:-• review of central support costs• review of Sports & Service Development Services• review of key service areas eg. coaching / dry activitiesInfoNB referred to the wishes of the Board to have such reviews carried out from anexternal source eg. sub committees in relation to the key service areas and thattheir task should be to scrutinise the budgets with a view to seeking efficiencies.2.2 NB referred to the budget formats to ensure clarification of the subject matter inrespect of the following:-• coaching income – agreed that wet coaching should be considered by theaquatics sub committee as it was more appropriate for that group to do so• coaching income was accounted for both by site and by activity.• coaching expenditure however was the responsibility of Leisure Managers inrelation to staffing, equipment etc and was shown as part of facility budgets• dry activities expenditure is mainly through staff costs, e.g. setting up ofbadminton / table tennis / volleyball equipment and was not broken down byactivity.• larger sites monitor trends of specific sports / activities eg. MSC.Various items of information were presented such as dry coaching income bysite, reference to monthly monitoring income & expenditure accounts of sites andMSC dry admissions analysis figures with the following key issues being raised:-• need to ensure link between income performance and usage to ensuremonitoring of target audience changes. PO to forward dry coachingperformance information to the end of October to AS/DA by specific sports.• importance of children’s coaching sessions being delivered in a manner1InfoInfoPO