Policy And Resources Committee - 18/06/2001

At a MEETING of the POLICY AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 18th June 2001.

 

Present:-

 

COUNCILLORS

 

George de GERNIER

Joe FITZPATRICK

C D P FARQUHAR

John R LETFORD

Allan PETRIE

Iain M LUKE

Betty WARD

George REGAN

Jim BARRIE

Jill SHIMI

Bruce D MACKIE

Julia M STURROCK

Ian BORTHWICK

Roderick A J WALLACE

Neil GLEN

Robin PRESSWOOD

Kenneth J N GUILD

Elizabeth F FORDYCE

Richard BEATTIE

Derek J SCOTT

Fiona M GRANT

Andrew DAWSON

John CORRIGAN

David BOWES

Willie W SAWERS

Dave BEATTIE

Mervyn J ROLFE

 

Councillor Julia STURROCK, Convener, in the Chair.

 

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 11th June 2001 was held as read.

 

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

 

I FORMATION OF NEW DEPARTMENT OF LEISURE AND ARTS

 

There was submitted Joint Report No 363-2001 by the Chief Executive and Director of Personnel and Management Services recommending the merger of the Leisure and Parks and Arts and Heritage Departments into a new Leisure and Arts Department, the transfer of certain ground maintenance work to Dundee Contract Services, and proposing an organisational structure for the new department.

 

The Committee agreed to:-

 

(i)approve the merger of Leisure and Parks and Arts and Heritage into a new Leisure and Arts department; and

 

(ii)approve the transfer of certain ground maintenance and related work as detailed in the report to Dundee Contract Services.

 

II FINANCIAL PLAN 2001/04 (INCORPORATING THE CAPITAL BUDGET 2001/02) (EXCLUDING HOUSING HRA)

 

There was submitted Report No 353-2001 by the Director of Finance providing the Committee with background information and details of the Council's Financial Plan 2001/04 incorporating the Capital Budget 2001/02.

 

The Committee agreed to:-

 

(i)agree the Financial Plan 2001/04 (incorporating the Capital Budget 2001/02); and

 

(ii)instruct the Chief Executive to write to the Scottish Executive advising of the inadequacy of the Capital Allocation which it has made available to the City Council and requesting that additional Capital Allocations be issued forthwith in order to finance essential capital projects within Dundee City.

 

III HOUSING CAPITAL BUDGET 2001/02

 

Reference was made to the Policy and Resources Committee of 12th June 2001 wherein the 2001/02 draft budget was approved. It was reported that it had been necessary to revise this following receipt of the Housing Capital Allocation from the Scottish Executive.

 

The Committee agreed to:-

 

(i) approve the revised Housing Capital Budget for 2001/2002;

 

(ii) approve the action as detailed in the report;

 

(iii)instruct the City Architectural Services Officer and City Engineer to invite offers for the projects including in these Capital, Planned Maintenance and Renewal and Repairs Estimates; and

 

(iv)authorise the Director of Housing to accept offers as detailed in the report.

 

IV COUNCIL PLAN 1999/2002 - PROGRESS IN MEETING TARGETS

 

There was submitted Report No 386-2001 by the Director of Corporate Planning advising the Committee of progress towards meeting the targets set out in the Council Plan 1999/2002.

 

The Committee agreed:-

 

(i)to note the contents of the report, in particular, the attached tables which detail progress to date on the targets set out in the Council Plan;

 

(ii)to remit the Director of Corporate Planning to continue to monitor progress on these targets and report to Committee on an annual basis; and

 

(iii)that, as part of the commitment to public performance reporting, information on progress towards the targets be added to the copy of the Council Plan which appears on the Council website and copies of this report be made available to partner organisations and local groups on request.

 

V CORPORATE PLANNING DIVISION - SERVICE PLAN PERFORMANCE

 

There was submitted Report No 413-2001 by the Director of Corporate Planning advising the Committee of performance achieved against the baseline and targets contained in the Corporate Planing Division Service Plan agreed by the Policy and Resources Committee in October 1999 for the period 1999/2002.

 

The Committee agreed to note the performance achieved in the indicators presented in Appendix 1 and the Best Value audit summary in Appendix 2 to the report.

 

 

 

 

JULIA STURROCK, Convener.