Cabinet Member for Organisational Delivery
Decision:
Decisions Made by Cabinet:
1.1 That the performance report and the performance outcome information tabled at Appendices A to G be agreed as adequately reflecting Babergh District Council’s performance for July – September 2018.
Reason for Decision: To provide assurance that the Council is meeting its performance objectives.
Alternative Options Considered and Rejected:
It is a requirement to report this information to Cabinet, therefore there are no other available options.
Any Declarations of Interest declared: None
Any Dispensation Granted: None
Minutes:
92.1 Councillor Davis introduced the report and MOVED the recommendations in the report which Councillor Jan Osborne SECONDED.
92.2 Councillor Davis stated that the Quarter 2 Performance Report to Cabinet continued to be refined to ensure that it was capturing the most appropriate performance measures. Within the report eight areas had been highlighted as having exceptionally good performance and four areas where performance had not met the targets that were set. Within the appendices were details of the measures that had been put in place to improve these. Overall, he felt that this was a good Quarter 2 Performance Report.
92.3 Councillor Simon Barrett queried the 100% success rate of legal challenges and ask if the Council were being robust enough or whether they were only taking on the safe legal challenges?
92.4 In response Councillor Davis stated that he had been assured by Legal Services that they would take on everything, cost was not an issue and that they would robustly defend any issue that they needed to.
92.5 Councillor Grandon raised concerns related to the increase in time for planning searches and the financial and reputational issues that might arise from this.
92.6 In response Councillor Davis stated that the previous target had been fifteen days, but this had recently been lowered to ten days. Currently the Council was working slightly below this. Overall the Council was still improving and would improve further, this was helped by setting the officers harder targets to reach.
92.7 Councillor Carpendale queried under the housing section HD01 how many children were involved in the 22 households that were in temporary accommodation?
92.8 In response Councillor Jan Osborne told Cabinet that she did not have those figures to hand currently, however she would find out and report back to Councillor Carpendale. She has also requested that an indicator be added on the number of children in temporary accommodation going forward.
92.9 Councillor Arthey congratulated Councillor Davis on the reduction in the length of time it took to answer calls but felt that it was still taking far too long
92.10 In response Councillor Davis told Cabinet that the Assistant Director for Customer Service and her team had worked extremely hard to get these times reduced, the figures that were already coming through for the next performance report were already reflecting a further reduction in these times.
It was Resolved:-
(i) That the performance report and the performance outcome information tabled at Appendices A to G of the report be agreed as adequately reflecting Babergh District Council’s performance for July – September 2018.
Reason for Decision: -
To provide assurance that the Council is meeting its performance objectives.
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