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Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Minutes: In accordance with the provisions of the Code of Conduct
adopted by the City and County of Swansea the following interests were
declared: Councillor Chris Holley declared a personal interest in
Minute Item 45. |
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Prohibition of Whipped Votes and Declaration of Party Whips Minutes: None. |
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To receive the minutes of the previous meeting(s) and agree as an accurate record. Minutes: Minutes of the previous meeting
were agreed. |
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Public Questions Questions can be submitted in writing to Scrutiny scrutiny@swansea.gov.uk up until noon on the working day prior to the meeting. Written questions take precedence. Public may attend and ask questions in person if time allows. Questions must relate to items on the open part of the agenda and will be dealt with in a 10 minute period. Minutes: There were no public questions
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Review of Revenue Reserves PDF 227 KB Cllr Rob Stewart - Cabinet Member for Economy, Finance and
Strategy Ben Smith – Director of Finance / S.151 Officer Additional documents: Minutes: Cllr Rob Stewart and Ben Smith
attended and the report which was presented to Council on 7 December was noted. |
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Mid Term Budget Statement 2023/24 (Verbal) Cllr Rob Stewart - Cabinet Member for Economy, Finance and Strategy Ben Smith – Director of Finance / S.151 Officer Minutes: Cllr Rob Stewart and
Ben Smith attended, and the following was discussed. · There are budget
monitoring pressures in the current year. The 2nd Quarter Budget
Monitoring report will be presented to Cabinet on 21 December. · The Welsh
Government budget will be announced next week followed by the Local Government
settlement. · The Council
continue to lobby Welsh Government through the Welsh Local Government
Association. |
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Recycling and Landfill - Annual Performance Monitoring Report PDF 185 KB Cllr Cyril Anderson– Cabinet Member Community Services Chris Howell – Head of Waste, Parks and Cleansing Matthew Perkins – Group Leader, Waste Additional documents: Minutes: Cllr Cyril Anderson and
Chris Howell shared the report, the following was noted. ·
In 2022, the Council adopted a new waste
strategy setting out a range of principles and actions to achieve the statutory
recycling targets set out in Welsh Government plans by 2024/25. ·
In 2022/23 the Council exceeded the current
statuary recycling target of 64% by achieving 71.8%. This was an increase of
6.7% on the previous year. This increase was principally due to switching black
bag disposal from landfill to energy from waste. Swansea Council is first in
the recycling performance league table across Wales. ·
Welsh Local Government Association financial
benchmarking from 2021/22 showed Swansea Council to have the lowest net
expenditure per household-on-household waste services across Wales. ·
Welsh Government are considering the
introduction of several schemes including a deposit return scheme, workplace
recycling legislation and extended producer responsibility. ·
Swansea Council are currently trialling reusable
containers for cans/glass and paper/cardboard in the St Thomas area which so
far has been received positively. If rolled out across Swansea, the cost would
be neutral. |
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Audit Wales Report - Digital Strategy Review PDF 135 KB Cllr Andrea Lewis – Cabinet Member for Service Transformation Sarah Lackenby – Head of Digital and Customer Services Additional documents:
Minutes: Sarah
Lackenby attended to share the Councils response to the Audit Wales report. The
following was discussed. ·
The report highlights the Audit Wales review of
all Council digital strategies across Wales. It looked to seek assurance that
digital strategies are delivering well-being objectives in accordance with the
Future Generations Act. ·
There was one recommendation for improvement
which was to bring any review findings to relevant committees. This does
normally occur, but normal process was affected by the pandemic. The digital strategy is reviewed annually, the Panel requested that this review is also brought to scrutiny. |
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Minutes: The work plan was noted. |
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Additional documents: |
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Letter to Cabinet Member - Economy, Finance & Strategy (Leader) PDF 115 KB |
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Letter to Cabinet Member - Service Transformation PDF 117 KB |
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