Agenda and minutes

Executive - Tuesday, 10 May 2016 5.00 pm

Venue: Council Chamber, Fourth Floor, Easthampstead House, Bracknell. View directions

Contact: Priya Patel  01344 352233

Items
No. Item

50.

Declarations of Interest

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or an Affected Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

51.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 296 KB

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 12 April 2016.

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 12 April 2016 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

Executive Decisions and Decision Records

The Executive considered the following items.  The decisions are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below:

52.

General Fund Revenue Budget 2016/17 - Further Savings Proposals pdf icon PDF 229 KB

To approve the further savings proposals outlined in this report.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the Executive recommend to Council the savings proposals outlined below:

The savings proposals with staffing implications, following the shorter consultation period, were as follows:

Description

2016/17

£000

2017/18

£000

Transport Capital Works

 

Continue with planned preventative maintenance by a significant reduction in highway improvement schemes, Sustainable Modes of Travel to School (SMOTTS) schemes and access improvements to employment areas.  Part of the integrated transport grant will instead be used for planned preventative maintenance, allowing the equivalent revenue budget to be saved. This will lead to the reduction of 3 transport engineering posts, due to reduced capital works.

-200

0

Highway Drainage

 

Only urgent repairs to current drainage situation with no improvements. Minor local drainage improvement schemes intending to resolve local flooding issues will be scrapped, only £25k retained for critical works. Loss of 1 post (from 1) meaning no ability to respond on behalf of residents to both drainage and non-drainage engineering queries.

-50

-40

Road Safety Education

 

Remove Road Safety Officer post and reduce road safety education, training and publicity work. Retain financial support for “Safer Roads Berkshire” only (a Berkshire wide road safety partnership proving evidence led road safety initiatives) – from the end of this academic year.

-25

-35

Highways Adoptions

 

Reduction of one adoptions supervisor. This means reducing supervision of works to be adopted giving rise to potential quality control issues through poor workmanship which will be passed on to the Council at adoption stage.

 

 

-12

-12

Concessionary Fares

 

Remove concessionary fares administrator, function to move to customer services.

-8

-8

Early Help Offer

Deletion of 2.2 FTE Development Officer posts that support childminders, after school clubs, play schemes and wrap around provision.

-78

0

Property Services

 

Restructuring of Construction and Maintenance team requires a deletion of one post and redistribution of duties and responsibilities.

-45

0

 

TOTAL

 

-418

-95

 

53.

Integrated Transport Capital Programme pdf icon PDF 114 KB

To approve the 2016/17 Integrated Transport Capital Programme.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the Executive approves the 2016/17 Integrated Transport Capital Programme as detailed in Annex 1 attached to the agenda papers.

54.

The “Issues and Options” Comprehensive Local Plan Consultation pdf icon PDF 348 KB

The Comprehensive Local Plan (CLP) will set out a planning framework for the Borough, including the allocation of sites for the period to 2036. This report seeks approval of the CLP Issues and Options document (see Appendix A to this report) for publication for a period of public consultation between 13 June and 25 July 2016. Approval of a consultation strategy is also sought (see Appendix B to this report).

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED that;

(i)         the Executive agrees the Issues and Options document (Appendix A) and Consultation Strategy (Appendix B) attached to the agenda papers:

(ii)        subject to Executive accepting recommendation (i) above, the Issues and Options document (Appendix A) and other supporting consultation material be published for a period of public consultation starting on Monday 13 June and ending on Monday 25 July.

(iii)       minor changes to the Issues and Options document and other supporting consultation material be agreed with the Executive Member for Planning and Transport in consultation with the Chief Officer Planning, Transport and Countryside.

55.

Award of Main and Aquatic Contract for Coral Reef Enhancement pdf icon PDF 148 KB

1.1          To award contracts for the expenditure in two areas -

 

§  The main construction contract for the enhancement of Coral Reef

§  The aquatic package associated with the main construction contract

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED that;

 

(i)            subject to a supplementary capital approval, the Executive award the main contract for Coral Reef to Tenderer B in the confidential annexe;

 

(ii)           subject to a supplementary capital approval, the Executive award the aquatic package to Van Egdom BV.

 

(iii)          the Executive recommend to Council that a supplementary capital approval of £1,575,000 be provided for the Coral Reef repair and improvement project.

56.

Exclusion of Public and Press

To consider the following motion:

 

That pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item 10 which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

 

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Minutes:

RESOLVED that pursuant to Regulation 21 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2000, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of the following item which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

 

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority).

57.

Award of Main and Aquatic Contract for Coral Reef Enhancement - Annex A

Minutes:

The Executive noted the information in the confidential annexe.

Decision Records pdf icon PDF 65 KB