Resources Policy Panel - 15 March 2007
Location: Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House
RESOURCES POLICY PANEL
NOTICE AND AGENDA
For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Thursday, 15 March 2007 at 7.30pm.
Members of the Panel: -
Councillors:- | Richard Laval (Chairman) | Sarah Nelmes (Vice-Chairman) |
| Harry Davies | DavidLake |
| Geoffrey Dunne | John Pendlebury |
| Pam Hames |
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Tony Beirne, Director of Strategic Services
7 March 2007
Please note that there will be a presentation from the Audit Commission on the Access to Services Review before the Resources Policy Panel. All Members are invited to attend. The Presentation will start at 7.00pm. |
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.
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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 15 February 2007.
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3. | NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS
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| Items of other business notified under Council Procedural 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. | THREE RIVERS HOUSE - MANNED GUARDING
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| The purpose of this Report is to seek permission to extend the existing contract for Manned Guarding (security guards for Three Rivers House) for one year to cover the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009.
 | 07 03 15 RS i - (05) manned security. DOWNLOAD |
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6. | PERFORMANCE MONITORING REPORT - QUARTER 3, 2006/2007
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| To receive Quarter 3 of 2006/07 (October - December) performance indicators relating to the Resources Policy Panel.
| 07 03 15 RS i - (06) perf mon rpt q3. DOWNLOAD |
| 07 03 15 RS i - (06) perf mon rpt q3-app. DOWNLOAD |
You can download the full Performance Monitoring Report for Quarter 3 of 2006/07 on the Performance Montoring page.
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7. | MARKET & SOCIAL RESEARCH CONSORTIUM CONTRACT
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| This report provides details of the Hertfordshire Consortium Market and Social Research Procurement process and requests that delegated authority for the Portfolio Holder (Resources) and Director of Strategic Services is recommended to the Executive Committee so that contract awards can be agreed by the Consortium between 3rd May and 10th May 2007.
| 07 03 15 RS i - (07) consortium. DOWNLOAD |
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8. | ICT UPDATE
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| This report details progress made on various IT Projects since the last update given to this Panel on 18 January 2007.
| 07 03 15 RS i - (08) ict update. DOWNLOAD |
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9. | SHARED SERVICES
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| This report seeks the Panel's approval to recommend to the Executive Committee that this Council continues to participate in the shared services programme with Watford and Dacorum Borough Councils. Specifically that the project proceeds to the next stage of the programme on the basis of the conclusions of the Strategic Business case, attached as Appendix A. This also means agreeing to commit £100,000 of revenue funding in 2007/08, which would be this Council's contribution to taking the programme forward. The funding has been identified as a contingency amount in 2007/08.
| 07 03 15 RS i - (09) shared services. DOWNLOAD |
| 07 03 15 RS i - (09) shared services-app. DOWNLOAD |
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10. | RESOURCES POLICY PANEL'S WORK PROGRAMME
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| To review and make necessary changes to the Policy Panel's work programme.
| 07 03 15 RS i - (10) work prog. DOWNLOAD |
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11. | OTHER BUSINESS - if approved under Item 3 above.
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12. | EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
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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 paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act." It has been decided by the Council in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
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| (Note: If other 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).
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1. | EXTENSION OF BANK CONTRACT
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| To obtain Committee approval to extend the current Bank contract for a further year and not to retender pursuant to rule 5 (a) (ii) under the Contracts Procedure Rules.
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2. | OTHER BUSINESS - if approved under Item 3 above.
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