Resources Policy and Scrutiny Committee - 1 July 2010


Location: Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House


NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber , Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Committee: -

Councillors:-

Sarah Nelmes (Chairman)

Peter Ray

 

Paul Goggins  (Vice-Chairman)

Ralph Sangster

 

Guy Davies

David Sansom

 

Geoffrey Dunne

Ron Spellen

 

Richard Laval

 

David Gardner, Director of Corporate Resources and Governance
17 June 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 11 March 2010 (circulated separately to Members of the Committee).

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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.

 

 

 

SCRUTINY

 

 

5.

BUDGETARY CONTROL TASK AND FINISH GROUP

 

 

 

This Task and Finish Group requested that it receive a demonstration of the new IT Financial System.  Arrangements will be made for this to be given to the Committee at the start of the meeting.

 

 

6.

FILMING ADMINISTRATION FEES

 

 

 

This report recommends the introduction of an administrative charge for filming permission enquiries.

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7.

PROCUREMENT STRATEGY

 

 

 

To provide the Committee with details on the revised Procurement Strategy being adopted by the Council.

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8.

SERVICE PLANS 2009/12 - MONITORING AND REPORTING FRAMEWORK - 2009/10 YEAR END REVIEW

 

 

 

The purpose of reporting Service Plans to the Policy and Scrutiny Committees is to enable Members to monitor ongoing performance against a range of issues and to question the Heads of Service on these and other service related matters.
 

 

(a)  Legal

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(b)  Customer Services Centre

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(c)  Leisure and Community (Partnerships)
 

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(d)  Democratic Services

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9.

39 OXHEY DRIVE - LEASE

 

 

 

This report is concerned with the leasing of 39 Oxhey Drive for 3 years to Three Rivers District Council (TRDC) from Herts County Council and the subsequent sub-letting of the building from Three Rivers District Council to ASCEND to enable the Local Strategic Partnership funded ‘Step-Up’ project to take place.

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10.

LOCAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE REWARD GRANT EXPENDITURE

 

 

 

This report presents to the committee a summary of the progress made by the Three Rivers Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) with regards to Performance Reward Grant (PRG) expenditure following the decision by government to withhold the 2nd instalment of the reward grant.

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11.

PROPOSED OXHEY HALL CHILDREN’S CENTRE, HAMPERMILL LANE, OXHEY.

 

 

 

A report setting out the proposed leasing arrangements for the Ebury Children’s Centre.

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12.

ANNUAL CORPORATE EQUALITY PERFORMANCE REPORT

 

 

 

This report updates members on the Corporate Equality Performance of the Council.

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13.

DRAFT SCOPING DOCUMENT FOR JOINT SHARED SERVICE SCRUTINY

 

 

 

To review and make necessary changes to the draft joint shared service scrutiny scoping document (Appendix A); and

 

 

 

To agree the setting up of a joint task and finish group for Shared Services with members from Watford Borough Council. This would be a parallel scrutiny project, along with the Health Inequality scrutiny project (for which the Task and Finish Group is to be sourced across the four Policy and Scrutiny Committees).

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WORK PROGRAMME

 

 

14.

WORK PROGRAMME

 

 

 

To agree the Committee’s work programme.

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15.

OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3 above.

 

 

16.

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.

WEB DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

 

 

 

This report provides an update on progress towards the relaunch of the Council website in September of this year. Costings will be provided to the Committee prior to the meeting. ( to follow)

 

 

2.

OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3 above.