Issue - meetings

To consider the Chief Executive’s Corporate Performance Overview Report for quarter two (July to September) of the 2010/11 financial year.

In view of the size of the agenda, the Chairman has asked that any questions arising from the report should be referred to the Assistant Chief Executive in advance and only raised in the meeting if you consider the issue requires wider discussion.

The Commission considered and noted the Chief Executive’s Corporate Performance Overview Report (CPOR) for the second quarter, July to September, of the 2010/11 financial year.

The Assistant Chief Executive highlighted –

• Paragraph 3.2 – activity continued on the Town Centre regeneration.
• Paragraph 3.3 – Coral Reef and Bracknell Leisure Centre had achieved the national Customer Service Excellence Award and had held the Charter Mark continuously since 1993.
• Paragraph 3.5 – the Council’s registration on the mandatory Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme.
• Paragraph 3.7 - the opening of the newly built Garth Hill College and the completion of the Edgbarrow Post 16 Centre.  The best A level results ever achieved in the Borough.
• Paragraph 3.9 – Crime reduction targets had already been met.
• Paragraph 3.10 – the Dementia Team had recently supported a person with end-stage dementia to fulfil their long-stated wish to die at home, and continued to offer this service.

Councillor McCracken referred to changes in Police organisation.  Under recommendations soon to be put to the Police Authority the current five Basic Command Units would be replaced by 15 units aligned to local authority areas with a degree of autonomy.  Each unit would have a Chief Inspector.

Arising from questions – the Department for Communities and Local Government website lists Bracknell Forest as having already published expenditure, Chief Officers’ salaries and procurement information.

To inform the Executive of the performance of the Council over the second quarter of 2010/11 (July-September 2010).

RESOLVED that the performance of the Council over the period from July to September 2010, highlighted in the Overview Report in Annex A be noted.