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Resources Policy and Scrutiny Committee - 11 March 2010

Location: Dickinson Room, Three Rivers House

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Dickinson Room, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Thursday, 11 March 2010 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Committee: -

Councillors:-	Sarah Nelmes (Chairman)	Richard Laval
	Harry Davies (Vice-Chairman)	Chris Lloyd
	Tony Barton	Peter Ray
	Graham Denman	Ron Spellen
	Geoffrey Dunne

David Gardner, Director of Corporate Resources and Governance
3 March 2010

The Committee 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 Committee. 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

2.	MINUTES

	To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting held on 12 November 2009 (circulated separately to Members of the Committee). 09 11 12 RS mins DOWNLOAD

3.	NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

	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.

4.	DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

	To receive any declarations of interest.

	POLICY

5.	ADOPTION OF OPEN SPACE AT PHASES 1 AND 4 ABBEY PARK, ABBOTS LANGLEY

	The Council has been approached by Barratt Homes regarding the possible adoption of 8 parcels of land in the vicinity of Abbey Park, Abbots Langley. The land formed part of the area developed during Phase 4 of the Leavesden Hospital Site but was not included in a planning agreement at the time of the development. Ownership and thus responsibility for maintenance is currently retained by the developer. 10 03 11 RS i - (05) adoption of open spaces DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (05) adoption of open spaces-app a DOWNLOAD

	SCRUTINY

6.	ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN 2009/2014

	This report presents to Members the updated Asset Management Plan (AMP) for 2009/2014. It discusses inter alia legislative constraints on the properties, sharing facilities and disposal of property. This AMP replaces the 2007 version. 10 03 11 RS i - (06) asset mngmnt plan DOWNLOAD

7.	CORPORATE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

	This report summarises the levels of customer satisfaction across all services and recommends a new corporate customer satisfaction target for 2010-11. 10 03 11 RS i - (07) corporate satisfaction DOWNLOAD

8.	LOCAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE REWARD GRANT EXPENDITURE

	This report presents to the committee procedures that have been implemented to ensure financial probity with regards to Performance Reward Grant (PRG) expenditure (as requested by the committee at their September 2009 meeting). In addition there is a summary report of the PRG spend to date. 10 03 11 RS i - (08) lsp prg expend DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (08) lsp prg expend-app 1 (gov and fin mngmt procs) DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (08) lsp prg expend-app 2 (procurement procedures) DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (08) lsp prg expend-app 3 (lsp prg commissioned projects) DOWNLOAD

9.	DRAFT PARTNERSHIP SCRUTINY WORK PROGRAMME

	To review and make necessary changes to the draft Partnership Scrutiny Work Programme, including project prioritisation (see Appendix A).

	To review and make necessary changes to the draft Scoping Document for Three Rivers Health Inequality (see Appendix B). 10 03 11 RS i - (09) ptnrship scrutiny DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (09) ptnrship scrutiny-app a (potential proj) DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (09) ptnrship scrutiny-app b (health inequality scrutiny) DOWNLOAD

10.	CONTRACTS PROCEDURE RULES

	To provide the Committee with details of proposals to change the Contract Procedure Rules. 10 03 11 RS i - (10) contracts procedure rules DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (10) contracts procedure rules-app DOWNLOAD

11.	REVIEW OF FINANCIAL PROCEDURE RULES

	This report summarises the outcome of a review of, and recommends an amendment to, the Financial Procedure Rules. 10 03 11 RS i - (11) financial procedure rules DOWNLOAD

12.	PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

	This report updates Members on aspects of the performance management framework. 10 03 11 RS i - (12) perf mngmnt framework DOWNLOAD

	WORK PROGRAMME

13.	WORK PROGRAMME

	To agree the Committee’s work programme. 10 03 11 RS i - (13) work prog DOWNLOAD 10 03 11 RS i - (13) work prog-app DOWNLOAD

14.	OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3 above.

15.	EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

	If the Committee wishes to consider the remaining item in private, it will be appropriate for a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

		“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

	(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 items).

1.	PROPOSED SALE OF THE CRESCENT CLUB, HALLOWES CRESCENT, SOUTH OXHEY

	To consider whether to sell the freehold interest in the Crescent Club and accept an offer from Paradigm Housing Group.

2.	OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3 above.