Public Services and Health Policy Panel - 5 July 2007
Location: Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House
PUBLIC SERVICES AND HEALTH
POLICY PANEL
NOTICE AND AGENDA
For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Thursday, 5 July 2007 at 7.30pm.
Members of the Panel:-
Councillors:- | Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Chairman) | Barbara Green |
| Les Mead (Vice-Chairman) | David Lake |
| Kemal Butt | Brian Norman |
| Leighton Dann | |
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Tony Beirne, Director of Strategic Services
21 June 2007
The Policy Panel welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on agenda items. Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that, in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Policy Panel. Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.
1. | APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
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2. | MINUTES
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| To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, 14 June 2007 (copies enclosed for Members of the Policy Panel).
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3. | NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS
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| Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 31 to be announced, together with the special circumstances, which justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.
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4. | DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
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| To receive any declarations of interest.
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5. | PRESENTATION ON THE RESULTS OF THE WASTE AUDIT
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| To receive a presentation on the results of the waste audit.
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6. | RECYCLING OF YELLOW PAGES
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| This report advises members on the recycling of Yellow Pages, via the Yellow Woods Challenge that was offered to schools for the first time this year and seeks permission to continue this scheme in future years.
 | 07 07 05 PS i - (06) yellow woods. DOWNLOAD |
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7. | ISSUE OF FIXED PENALTY NOTICES FOR FAILURE TO USE BINS / BOXES CORRECTLY
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| To seek members approval to issue Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for the wilful contamination of green garden waste bins.
| 07 07 05 PS i - (07) fixed penalty notices. DOWNLOAD |
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8. | UPDATE ON COVERT CAMERAS
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| To advise members of the success of the covert cameras purchased to reduce flytipping.
| 07 07 05 PS i - (08) covert cameras. DOWNLOAD |
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9. | ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FOOD LAW AND HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICE PLANS
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| To review the 2006/07 Food Law and Health and Safety Law Enforcement Service Plans; to recommend strategy on the Councils statutory duties for 2007/08 and to recommend the revised plans to Executive Committee.
| 07 07 05 PS i - (09) enf serv plans. DOWNLOAD |
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10. | ENVIRONMENT ACT 1995 - CONSULTATION UPON DRAFT AIR QUALITY ACTION PLAN
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| This report introduces the first draft of an Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) for the district. The purpose of the plan is to set out how the District Council will take action within its area to reduce air pollution locally, so that pollution within the hotspots near the M25 is reduced to within statutory objectives.
| 07 07 05 PS i - (10) draft air quality action plan. DOWNLOAD |
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11. | WORK PROGRAMME
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| To agree the Panel's Work Programme.
| 07 07 05 PS i - (11) work prog. DOWNLOAD |
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12. | EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
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| If any confidential business is approved under Item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional item(s) and a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-
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| "that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under the respective paragraphs of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act."
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1. | OTHER BUSINESS - if approved under item 3.
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