Agenda and minutes

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Any Member with an Affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  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 12 February 2019.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 12 February 2019 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Councillor Barnard, Vice Chairman of the Executive.

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

To update the Executive on a proposal for an integrated and delegated continuing health care (CHC) service for East Berkshire that has been jointly developed by East Berkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Slough Borough Council, Bracknell Forest Council (BFC) and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM).

RESOLVED that

i.      the proposal for an integrated and delegated continuing health care (CHC) service for East Berkshire is endorsed.

ii.     officers are instructed to proceed with the design and development of

the trusted assessor operating model and implementation plans to pilot this from July 2019.

To approve the Capital Programme for Integrated Transport for 2019/20 and its implementation.

RESOLVED that the Integrated Transport Capital Programme for 2019/20 is

approved.

To approve the Highway Maintenance Works Programme for 2019/20.

To seek approval for Bracknell Forest Council to re-join the pan-Berkshire shared arrangements for Public Health.

RESOLVED that:

i.      from 1 April 2019 to enter into an agreement with the Public Health

Shared Team to share the services of the Strategic Director of Public

Health (SDPH) and receive support from the Public Health Shared Team

for health intelligence, health protection and strategic leadership for health and wellbeing.

ii.     a Consultant be recruited in the Public Health post to lead the Bracknell Local

Public Health Team reporting to the Executive Director: People.

iii.    Bracknell Forest Council will continue to act as host for the Berkshire Shared Public Health Team and host the SDPH with all costs shared with the other five Berkshire

            Councils.

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 item 9 (minute item  66) 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).

To consider a detailed Business Case for the redevelopment of the former Heathlands Residential Care Home.

i.      the Council continues to work in partnership with the East Berkshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust to;

·  develop the detailed design, progress a Planning application and procure a contractor for a replacement Heathlands facility.

·  confirm Provider arrangements to enable a full assessment of risk/

opportunity.

ii.     a further update on the proposal be received alongside its consideration of the proposed contractor appointment, including clarification of Provider arrangements, to ensure that the Council’s overall level of risk exposure is fully evaluated.