Mr Amesbury said that, if passed, the proposals could bring "state-of-the-art leisure and library facilities for residents of the Levenshulme, Chorlton and East Manchester areas".
Library and youth facilities face a radical change, with some being handed to local communities to run.
Puddletown Library is the first of seven facilities to transfer to community ownership.
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The galleries have been inserted into a grand edifice of classrooms, a library, an auditorium, offices, conservation facilities, indoor and outdoor meeting spaces, and an atrium planted with trees and hanging vines.
Other facilities include a small children's library, exhibition spaces, lecture halls, a school for information sciences and a planetarium, this last being a separate, spherical structure poised at one end of the vast outside plaza like an orbiting satellite.
The city council plans to retain a "core network" of eight facilities, including the city centre "super library".
He said the education department, library and other services would be decommissioned, with some facilities including the kitchens and the gym being sent to be used at other prisons.
The project includes a hotel, restaurants and shops on site as well as a private club for residents with a spa, sports facilities, a cinema, a yoga studio and a library.
The three-storey community-purpose building, including a long-awaited new library, a day-care centre for older people and office facilities, is the first project to be developed as part of the Scottish Futures Trust Hub programme.
Library services are to be shaken up with 11 being turned into express facilities and a further 11 being offered to local communities to run for peppercorn rents.
The wall of glass on one side of the library, combined with its geographic exposition and the density of students in the small facilities turned it into a sauna for half the day during the spring months (which were also the exam months, when the libraries were most in demand).
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As well as 16 classrooms the two-storey structure has facilities including a computer suite, staff room, hall, office block and library.
The students are offered free tuition, uniforms and meals and have access to the academy's state-of-the-art facilities, which include modern classrooms, computers labs, sport fields and a 10, 000-volume library.
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