CORPORATE SERVICES LEAD MEMBER BRIEFING 15th January, 2001.
PRESENT:
Councillors Antrobus and Murphy
M. Brooks, K. Clare, A. Eastwood, K. Horton
J. Spink and A. Westwood
D. Hunter and I. Andrew also attended
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SOLAR:
 Following on from the meeting of the SOLAR Team , David Hunter had
offered to attend meetings of the Scrutiny Committees to explain the SOLAR
System and to answer questions – Keith Clare was arranging this.
 Scrutiny Committees to be offered training as a group
 No action on the request from Social Scrutiny Committee for papers to be
posted following the decision last week to make papers available one week
prior to the meeting.
 Tagging of reports to include reference by directorate/ staffing/ operational/
policy etc.
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Budget Consultation:
 Alan Westwood to produce note for Councillor Antrobus on dates for the
consultation exercise – do any dates clash with the industrialists dinner –what
was the response to the September consultation exercise ?
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Disbanding of the ICT Schools Support Team – defer for Councillor Antrobus to
discuss with Councillor Jones
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Accommodation for the Princess Trust – Alan Eastwood reported on a request for
free accommodation at the Civic Centre. That free accommodation be not
provided
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It Monthly Update – report submitted following points highlighted: Homeworking – of benefit to Development staff may ultimately have
management problems (general discussion ensued on homeworking
including IT in general, conveyancing, customer contact centre,
committees – Councillor Antrobus looking to free up accommodation on
the ground floor former Swinton Town Hall to allow better access to
meetings by persons with disabilities Alan Eastwood to pursue)
 WM97ThusA virus (for which a charge of £500 per machine is being
made to directorates) – most directorates opting to have the infected
machines wiped clean
 Council Tax – end of year
 Education – still no schools signed up SLA’s. Funding is coming from
various areas and need to be spent in the next 2/3 months or it will be lost.
 Ken Horton to meet with Bob McIntyre to progress the matter – update
next week
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Public Protection Policy Review Group – Alan Eastwood reported on the meeting
of the Group to be held on 5th February - AGREED that nobody attends
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Review of the Housing Directorate Accountancy Team – APPROVED
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Customer Services Monthly Update: CRM live testing started last week – demonstration to SPIGIT today –
experience of using Oracle helped to develop the system in-house
 CCC – meeting to be held on 16th January with Development Services and the
Post Office to discuss collaborative working for delivery of local CCC
 Alan Eastwood reported that the Lord Chancellor’s office was funding
imaginative ideas on consulting with people
 Security – Alan Westwood to identify funding for the security measures
required £22k
 Contingency Planning – work ongoing
 Official opening of the CCC – early June
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Web Content Management: Previous attempts to recruit Web Manager failed
 Need to appoint somebody who will have strategic responsibility
 Job description and person specification prepared for an SO 1 post – seek
approval from Personnel to regrade to PO ¾
 What happens in the mean time ? – Education and Housing sites being
developed so the current site will be improved – David Hunter to e-mail
Councillors Antrobus and Murphy and Alan Westwood with ideas for
improving the site
 David Hunter indicated that with regard to the local democracy side of the
web site – it was planned for the public to have access from March / April
time
 Home pages for Lead Members and Chairmen of Committees to be updated
and arrange ease of access to members of the public thereto
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AGREE to 2 temporary posts of Programmer (Office Automation) SC5 /SO1
being made permanent
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Social Scrutiny Committee – Alan Eastwood reported that a situation had arisen
with some of the Church representatives on the Committee who because of
religious undertakings were unable to attend the Committee at its current meeting
time and the Committee had refused to change its time. THAT Alan Eastwood
write in his capacity as Monitoring Officer seeking a resolution to the situation