Venue: Committee Room 5, Guildhall, Swansea. View directions
Contact: Scrutiny 636292
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Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: · None |
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To approve & sign the Notes of the previous meeting(s) as a correct record. Additional documents: Minutes: · Approved |
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Public Questions Minutes: · None |
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Minutes: · The draft budget has been published · Final settlement due end of December · Expectation between £1.5m - £3m · Much of the money will be ring-fenced |
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Quarter 2 Budget Monitoring PDF 216 KB · Ben Smith - Head of Financial Services & Service Centre Additional documents:
Minutes: · Services overspent by £8.5m · £2.7m to be addressed by the end of the year 2018/19 · Spend pressures in social care · Some capital underspend relieves some pressure on capital financing charges · Housing Revenue Account – no issues · Every vacant post goes before CMT for approval · The earmarked reserves are only drawn on advice from 151 Officer · Making some inroads to savings stretch targets but not as much as required · Totality of ER/VR from the restructure reserve · The sickness savings target is about looking to reduce the overall sickness bill · Looking at different way of working like agile working creating a better work life balance – trials around flexi and core hours · Some issues around the pace and scale of delivery of savings |
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Annual Review of Well-being Objectives and Corporate Plan 2018/22 PDF 139 KB · Councillor Clive Lloyd – Cabinet Member for Business Transformation and Performance · Richard Rowlands – Corporate Performance Manager Additional documents:
Minutes: · The plan was reviewed to meet requirements · Following a review of progress and evidence · Addition of a new objective which maximises the contribution to the Well-being of Future Generations Act under the resilient Wales goal and the Environment Act. Ensures better aligned with the Corporate Plan and Well-being Plan · Wales Audit Office certified the plan as meeting requirements under legislation · No Brexit implications in the plan · Collaborative working needs to list the bodies who are working together |
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Planning Annual Report 2017/18 · Councillor David Hopkins – Cabinet Member for Delivery · Ryan Thomas - Development Conservation and Design Manager Minutes: · The Planning process is working well, the officers have change the way of working and that has been a success · The Planning Committee is streamlined and takes their responsibilities seriously · Some concerns over enforcement of planning breaches · Public concern over ecological enforcement – if breaches are found they will be dealt with · The previous monitoring officer was grant funded and this funding ended · Previous call in system was used inappropriately so the new system is better · Questions around the transparency of planning applications around Councillor involvement |
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Minutes: · Discussed |
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