To consider and provide a recommendation to Cabinet on the proposals set out in the attached report.
Minutes:
Lee Colyer, Director of Finance, Policy and Development introduced the report that summarised the Council’s performance on its projects and services for the period 1 October to 31 December 2020.
Discussion and questions from Members included the following:
- The report covered historical performance only. The position on all projects and services might have changed since the report was written.
- For this year, where indicators were showing as underperforming but were doing so as a direct result of the pandemic, the Council had agreed that service managers did not have to complete underperforming indicator recovery plans.
- There were 4 projects remaining in the Five-Year Plan – counted as 6 so that the Community Hubs were counted individually. Of those projects, 3 were Amber status and 3 were Green status.
- For Services, the Council collected 32 indicators of which 23 had targets. Of the 23 with targets, 13 were performing and 10 were underperforming.
- It was confirmed the figure of 5.85 as the time taken to process new benefits claims was days.
- Recycling rates were dependent on individual households. However, due to the pandemic the amount of general waste had increased so the proportion of recycled waste was a smaller proportion of the overall quantity of waste.
- It was noted that the amount of recycled waste collected in quarter 1 in 2018/19 (under the old contract) was higher than in subsequent quarters. The details as to why this was the case was not known and would be reverted at a later date.
RESOLVED – That the recommendations to Cabinet as set out of the report be supported.
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