ALTON Town Council is to hold an extraordinary full council meeting tonight to review the minutes of the electors’ meeting on March 10 which centred on proposals for the future of the Assembly Rooms.

The meeting will consider the representations made and if, or how, they might influence the decision taken by the town council on February 10 to enter into an operating contract with Alton Community Association to provide caretaking, booking and marketing services for the High Street venue.

At the electors’ meeting, called by six electors under the Local Government Act 1972 to discuss the future of the building, those electors who were eligible voted unanimously to “reject an plans for the Alton Community Association to take over the running of the Assembly Rooms until the electors and users of the Assembly Rooms have been publicly consulted”.

A second motion that Alton Town Council does not enter into any agreement with Alton Community Association until the association has presented a business and marketing plan was agreed by 54 votes to nine, with 16 abstentions.

The extraordinary meeting is at the Assembly Rooms tonight at 7pm and is open to the public.