Policy And Resources Committee - 11/02/2008

At a MEETING of the POLICY AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 11th February, 2008.

Present:-

BAILIES

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Kevin KEENAN, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 28th January, 2008 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I MINUTES

(a) PERSONNEL APPEALS SUB-COMMITTEE OF 14TH JANUARY, 2008

(b) AUDIT AND RISK MANAGEMENT SUB-COMMITTEE OF 21ST JANUARY, 2008

(c) BEST VALUE PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY SUB-COMMITTEE OF 30TH JANUARY, 2008

The minutes of meetings of the above Sub-Committees, copies of which are appended hereto (Appendix I - Appendix III), were submitted for information and record purposes.

II COUNTER-FRAUD REPORT - OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2007

There was submitted Report No 93-2008 by the Depute Chief Executive (Finance) informing Elected Members of the Revenues Division's Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Counter Fraud activity as at 31st December, 2007.

The Committee approved the terms of the report.

III RELIEF OF RATES - CHARITY RELIEF

There was submitted Report No 96-2008 by the Depute Chief Executive (Finance) seeking authorisation to grant charity relief on the undernoted non-domestic property.

The Committee approved accordingly.

IV HOUSING BENEFIT OVERPAYMENT RECOVERY POLICY UPDATE

On a reference to Article II of the minute of meeting of the Finance Committee of 9th May, 2005, there was submitted Report No 95-2008 by the Depute Chief Executive (Finance), together with an updated Housing Benefit and Overpayment Recovery Policy.

The Committee approved accordingly.

V HOUSING CAPITAL BUDGET 2008/2009, 2009/2010 AND 2010/2011

There was submitted Report No 81-2008 by the Director of Housing relative to the above.

The Committee:-

(i) approved the Housing Capital Budget for 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011;

(ii) approved the action detailed in paragraph 6 of the report; and

(iii) instructed the City Architectural Services Officer and City Engineer, in conjunction with the Director of Housing, to invite offers for the projects included in these Capital and Planned Maintenance estimates, and authorised the Director of Housing, City Architectural Services Officer and City Engineer to implement alternative methods of procurement with contractors where these were necessary to achieve the value for money that would be required to meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard.

VI COMMUNITY REGENERATION FUND SMALL GRANTS ALLOCATION 2007/2008

There was submitted Report No 106-2008 by the Assistant Chief Executive (Community Planning) and Director of Leisure and Communities relative to the above.

The Committee noted the process for allocating small grants through the Local Community Regeneration Forums as agreed by the Dundee Partnership and endorsed the funding proposals detailed below.

In addition, the Committee approved the undernoted amendments to the report.

At paragraph 7.1 - Current Proposals - CRA5 - delete "403" and insert "0" and under Total - delete "1,517" at the foot of the column and insert "1,571".

Kevin KEENAN, Convener.