Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary 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 Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting and must not participate in discussion of the matter or vote on the matter unless granted a dispensation by the Monitoring officer or by the Governance and Audit Committee.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 11 April 2017.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 11 April 2017 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

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

To endorse the recommendations in the Plan Phase of the Citizen and Customer Contact Review undertaken as part of the Transformation Programme.

RESOLVED that the recommendations from the Plan Phase of the Citizen and Customer Contact Transformation Programme be endorsed.

To approve the Issues and Options for the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan, for the purposes of public consultation.

RESOLVED that;

i)              the Issues and Options for the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan be approved for the purposes of public consultation

ii)             the Chief Officer: Planning, Transport and Countryside in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Transport, be authorised to make any minor amendments necessary to the Issues and Options for the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan, prior to public consultation.  

To endorse the priorities identified within the Community Safety Partnership Plan 2017-2019.

RESOLVED that the priorities identified within the Community Safety Partnership Plan 2017-2019 be endorsed.

To note the Residents’ Survey 2017 results report and the statistical comparison table and to endorse the communications plan.

RESOLVED that the Residents’ Survey 2017 results report and the statistical table be noted and that the communications plan be endorsed.

To update the Executive on progress made to date in implementing the Commercial Property Investment Strategy (CPIS) and market intelligence gained through this.  As a consequence of this, to request that the final tranche of funding earmarked in 2018/19 to deliver the strategy is brought forward into the current financial year. 

It was RECOMMENDED to Council that £20m be released in capital funding in 2017/18 from the indicative 2018/19 Capital Programme in order to accelerate delivery of the Council’s agreed Commercial Property Investment Strategy.

To approve the model for future commissioning of Intermediate Care Services.

RESOLVED that the model for future commissioning of Intermediate Care be approved.

To seek authority to develop The Lodge, Stoney Road site to provide bespoke accommodation for residents with a learning disability in the borough.

RESOLVED that;

i)          the Lodge site provide bespoke new build accommodation for a minimum of 10 residents with a learning disability in accordance with the specified accommodation needs;

ii)         offers be sought from registered social landlords to undertake the development and provide nominations agreement.

iii)         contracts be exchanged and the sale of the site be completed subject to grant of detailed planning permission

iv)        details of the terms of disposal be delegated to the Chief Officer: Property, Chief Officer: Housing, and Executive Members for Transformation & Finance and Adult Social Care, Health & Housing.

Agenda items 13 and 14 are supported by annexes containing exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. If the Executive wishes to discuss the content of these annexes in detail, it may choose to move the following resolution: 

That pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012 and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of items 13 and 14 which involve 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).

NB: No representations were received in response to the 28 day notice of a private meeting.

RESOLVED that pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012, and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of items 13 and 14 which involve 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).

The Executive considered the reports submitted on the items listed below and the decisions taken are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below.

To seek approval to award a contract for the Community Based Support Service to commence on 14 August 2017.

RESOLVED that a contract for the Community Based Support Service commencing on 14 August 2017 be awarded to tenderers B,C,D,G and H.

To report on the consultation concerning Health Visitor and School Nursing services and make recommendations in relation to the future commissioning of these services.

RESOLVED that;

i)              the commissioning of a 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service (incorporating Health Visiting and School Nursing) be approved on the basis of a two-year contract duration (with provision for three separate one-year extensions) from 1 April 2018.

ii)             the procurement plan set out in Annex A of the Director of Adult Social Care, Health & Housing report be approved.

iii)            the Executive Member for Adult Social Care Health & Housing be authorised to award the contract, subject to the recommended bid being within the available budget.