ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY SAFETY
7 April 2003.
ACTION SHEET ARISING FROM THE ABOVE COMMITTEE
Present: Councillors Ullman ( Chairman), Broughton, Fernandez, King, Upton, Owen,
Councillors Hinds (for items 3, 4) Warmisham and Clarke (for items 4,5) Lancaster and Hunt (for item 5), Merry (for items 6
and 7)
Officers: Russell Bernstein, Karen Lucas Charles Green (for items 3,4) John Wooderson and Elaine Davis( for item 4),
Gordon Dickson and John Rooney(for item 5), Steve Thompson and Tom McDonald (for items 6 and 7) .
ITEM
1.
Apologies for
Absence.
ACTION REQUIRED
RESPONSIBLE
MEMBER / OFFICER
Apologies received from Councillors Slater, Jolley,
Hicks, Wilson, Witkowski and Morris.
2.
(a)Minutes of the Last Minutes approved.
Councillor Upton be added to the list of Members in
Meeting on the 3
March 2003 (b)action attendance.
sheet.
Action sheet noted.
3.
Best Value Review of The final challenge session was held two weeks ago.
Economic
It was felt more work is required on the review,
Development.
including highlighting outcomes and achievements for
the service.
Resolved:
To present the final report at the May 2003 meeting.
TIMESCALE
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Karen Lucas.
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Charles Green and
Councillor Hinds.
To be included on the
agenda for the
Scrutiny Meeting on
the 12 May 2003.
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4.
Housing Market
Renewal (HMR)
Fund.
A presentation was provided by Elaine Davis
summarising the main points of the reports presented
to Members.
Charles Green, John
Wooderson, Elaine
Davis, Councillors Hinds
and Warmisham.
It is hoped that monies from the HMR bid will be
available early and the resource for Central Salford
will hopefully remain at £54m over 3 years.
Consultation draft:- LSP April’03
- Cabinet April’03
- Area Reg. Partnerships April/May’03
- Political Executive April’03
- Final submission to ODPM mid May’03.
Members raised concerns about the renaming of
areas in the report, removing recognition from
communities. Officers explained that the areas had
been renamed on advice for marketing purposes not
to remove local identities. If there is an adverse
reaction to these suggestions by communities then
further consideration will be given.
More area detail will be provided at the Political
Executive Meeting on Friday 11 April 2003. Further
debate will be held through other forums i.e.
Community Committees.
With regard to the ADF Strategy, the wording in
theme 6 needs to change from ‘effective performance
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management to reflect ensuring delivery.
Resolved:
To report back following approval of the funding and
provide more detail on the thematics as outlined in
the report.
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Youth Nuisance
Strategy.
This report was approved at Cabinet in December
2002 and is now a working document, which will be
updated with any new initiatives.
July or Sept. 2003.
Gordon Dickson, John
Rooney, Councillors
Warmisham and
Lancaster,
A discussion forum for Members will be organised.
Members agreed the document needs to be shared
corporately with all key agencies, as well as with
young people in Salford.
Resolved:
1.The City Juvenile Youth Strategy to be adopted and
implemented on a corporate basis by all the cities
staff who work with young people.
2.Engage with partners and report back on progress
within 3 months.
6.
Community Strategy.
This report was presented to Cabinet in January
2003.
Date to be agreed.
Tom McDonald,
Councillor Merry.
Further discussion is required regarding the role of
scrutiny and how we can empower Community
Committees to undertake and be effective in their
scrutiny role.
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7.
Best Value Review of
Community
Engagement.
All Members from this Committee have been invited
to the mid point challenge session on the 16 April
2003 at 6pm.
Steve Thompson and
Councillor Merry.
In scrutinising the report reference was made by
Members that:
-The report needs to contain a clear success criteria
for engagement.
-Strategies for the council also need to highlight
the service, to the extent of if it is cost effective.
-Evaluation of alternative models e.g. citizens panels
and focus groups.
Resolved:
1.Future report to include:
-Performance measures.
-Review of the service.
-Evaluation of alternative models.
-Selling and promoting of the service.
Date to be agreed.
May/June 2003/
2.The mid point challenge report to be shared with
Members.
8.
Work Programme.
9.
Forward Plan.
No issues raised.
Karen Lucas
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The forward plan presented to this Scrutiny
Committee will only contain details pertaining to
Economic and Community Safety Scrutiny
Committee, including any cross cutting topics.
Karen Lucas
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10.
Any other Business
of an Urgent Nature.
-Review Session.
-Public participation.
Following on from the review held in April 2002 to
organise and facilitate a review session for Members
at the June 2003 meeting.
Councillor Ullman explained that we need to entice
public attendance, thus we need to consider venues,
times of meetings and possibly have co-opted
members.
Date of Next Meeting: 12
Russell Bernstein &
Karen Lucas in liaison
with Councillor Ullman.
June Scrutiny meeting.
May 2003. - 2.00pm (briefing for Members at 1.30pm)
Chairman
Assistant Director
Principal Scrutiny Support Officer
Scrutiny Support Officer
Tony Ullman
Russell Bernstein
David McGovern
Karen Lucas
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