RECORD OF CABINET BUSINESS
MEETING HELD ON 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2001
Agenda Item
Business
1.
Record of Business
(Contact: K.A.Clare
793 3009)
AGREED: THAT the record of the meeting held on 4th
September, 2001, be approved.
2.
Commonwealth Games
Update
(Contact: T.Stephenson
736 9448)
Councillor Eddie Sheehy, Lead Member for Arts and
Leisure, submitted a report on the current position with
regard to Commonwealth Games related activities based
around the City’s relationship with South Africa and the
appointment of a Commonwealth Games Co-ordinator.
AGREED: THAT the report be noted
3.
School Holiday Schedule
2002/03
(Contact:S. Nicholson
837 1833)
Councillor Keith Mann, Lead Member for Education,
submitted details of the proposed school holiday schedule
for 2002/03.
AGREED: THAT the school holiday schedule for
2002/2003 be approved; and that Council be
recommended to amend the Scheme of Delegation to
allow in future for such decisions to be made by the Lead
Member.
(THIS DECISION IS FOR POLICY COMMITTEE
APPROVAL).
4
Progress of the Library
Review and the Statutory
Public Library Standards
(Contact: R. Culpin
736 9448)
Councillor Eddie Sheehy, Lead Member for Arts and
Leisure, submitted a report on (a) the achievement to
date of the Annual Library Plan for 2001/02 noting the
shortfall in some of the necessary investment and (b) the
new statutory Public Library Standards, how Salford
measured up to them and what targets must be achieved
to meet the standards by 2004.
AGREED: (1) THAT the progress made towards
fulfilling the recommendations of the Library Review be
noted.
(2) THAT a further report be submitted at
the meeting of Cabinet to be held on 25th September,
2001, identifying options to be able to achieve the Public
Library Standards by 2004.
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5.
Rethinking Construction – A
Best Value Approach to
Procurement
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Councillor Barry Warner, Lead Member for Development
Services, submitted a report on the Governments
‘Partnering” approach to the procuring of construction
(Contact: M. Collier
793 8337)
projects which was seen as representing Best Value for
Local government.
AGREED:
THAT the following action be approved:-
(i) the appointment of a senior manager as Lead Officer
or partnering ‘Champion’.
(ii) establish a corporate in-house Rethinking
Construction/Implementation Team to identify options to
progress the partnering approach to construction
procurement, appraise those options and recommend a
way or ways forward for the Council (including the
selection process(es) and the preferred form(s) of
contract).
(iii) the appointment of an external partnering advisor to
help with the strategic development of the Council’s
implementation of the Rethinking Construction approach.
(iv) in future all construction schemes to be assessed in
terms of life cycle costs within the financial constraints
imposed by the available capital funding.
(v) approval to the partnering work currently being
progressed in Housing, Education and Development
Services continuing
(vi) in order to manage the risk to the Council initial
partnering initiatives should continue to involve in-house
professionals who have experience of working with
contractors and delivering current construction
programmes
(vii) starting this year all services within the Council that
procure construction work (including those provided by
external consultants) to adopt the Government’s
recommended P.I.’s for construction and monitor their
performance against them.
(viii) the Council’s performance as client, consultant and
contractor be benchmarked against the best providers of
construction services.
(ix) all staff/trade unions to be involved in the process
and kept informed of progress.
(x) the support of the appropriate Scrutiny Committees
be sought.
(xi) appropriate Member and Officer training be arranged
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including the possibility of a visit to an Authority already
successfully implementing the approach.
6.
Neighbourhood/Street
Warden Schemes
(Contact: E. Davies
793 3448)
Councillor Alice Smyth, Deputy Lead Member for
Community Safety, submitted a report (a) indicating that
DTLR had recently announced additional funding to
support the introduction of Neighbourhood/Street Warden
Schemes across the 374 Crime and Disorder
partnerships nationally and (b) containing options
available in terms of focusing future schemes together
with a policy framework for their introduction.
AGREED: (1) THAT the role and function of wardens
as the foundation for future schemes across the City be
endorsed.
(2) THAT approval be given to the
preparation of a Corporate Security Strategy.
(3) THAT the following areas be included
in the bid for Home Office grant:Brookhouse Estate, Winton
Kenyon Estate, Little Hulton
(THESE DECISIONS ARE FOR POLICY COMMITTEE
APPROVAL)
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Sure Start – Wave 5
(Contact: S. Ford
793 3421)
(Councillor Susan Slater
declared an interest in
respect of this item)
Councillor John Warmisham, Lead Member for Housing
Services, submitted a report indicating that the Council
had been invited to make applications for funding under
Wave 5 of the Sure Start Initiative.
AGREED: THAT Higher Broughton / Lower Broughton,
Trinity / Islington / Greengate /Ordsall, Barton and Little
Hulton be recommended to the Sure Start Partnership for
action under Wave 5.
(THIS DECISION IS FOR POLICY COMMITTEE
APPROVAL)
8.
Developing the City’s
Stabilisation Policy
(Contact: E. Davies
793 3448)
Councillor Bill Hinds, Leader of the Council, submitted a
report outlining the need to develop a Stabilisation Policy
to deal with packets of deprivation across the City.
AGREED:
9.
THAT the report be noted.
Capital Programme 2001/02 Councillor Derek Antrobus, Lead Member for Corporate
(Contact: J. Spink
Services, submitted a report containing proposals to
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793 3230)
eliminate the current over-programming level of £8.8M
within the 2001/02 capital programme.
AGREED:
(1) THAT the strategy agreed by Council
not to approve capital expenditure until such time as
funding is identified be re-affirmed.
(2) THAT the proposal to defer capital
expenditure as detailed in the report be approved.
(3) THAT approval be given to
approaches being made to Government agencies to
make them aware of the issues and to seek additional
funding; and that a further report be submitted to Cabinet
on the outcome of the discussions.
(THESE DECISIONS ARE FOR POLICY COMMITTEE
APPROVAL)
10.
2001/02 Revenue Budget
(Contact: J. Spink
793 3230)
A report of the Budget Committee was submitted in
respect of the progress of Directorates in the
implementation of the savings approved as part of the
2001/02 Revenue Budget.
AGREED: THAT the Director of Development Services
submit a report at a future meeting of Cabinet on the
mechanisms for information being passed to the Strategic
Property Management Unit of his Directorate regarding
the release of accommodation no longer required by
directorates.
11.
Budget Consultation
2002/03
(Contact: J.Spink
793 3230)
AGREED: THAT the Lead and Deputy Lead Member for
Corporate Services in consultation with the Leader and
Deputy Leader of the Council be authorised to approved
the Budget Consultation document for submission to
Council on 19th September, 2001.
12.
Future Meetings of Cabinet
(Contact: K.A.Clare
793 3009)
AGREED: THAT, following the introduction of the
Council’s new Constitution, future meetings of the Cabinet
at which key and other decisions will be made be held on
alternate Tuesdays.
(THIS DECISION IS FOR POLICY COMMITTEE
APPROVAL)
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