Agenda and minutes
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APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR FOR THIS CALL-IN MEETING To Elect a Chair for this meeting only, due to the absence of the current Chair and Vice-Chair. Minutes: Councillor Levy was elected as Chair for the meeting.
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WELCOME & APOLOGIES Minutes: Councillor Levy welcomed all attendees to the meeting. Apologies had been received from Councillors Erbil, Lappage, and Georgiou. - Councillor Bond was substituting for Councillor Erbil. Councillor Pite was substituting for Councillor Lappage and Councillor Levy was substituting for Councillor Georgiou. |
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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Members of the Council are invited to identify any disclosable pecuniary, other pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests relevant to the items on the agenda.
Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
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CALL IN: FUTURE OF THE RESPONSIVE REPAIRS SERVICE PDF 143 KB To receive and consider a report from the Director of Law and Governance outlining details of a call-in received on the Cabinet Decision taken on the Future of Responsive Repairs Service (Report No 53).
The decision that has been called in was a Cabinet Decision taken on 12 June 2019 and included on the Publication of Decision List No 8/19-20 (List Ref:4/8/19-20) issued on 14 June 2019.
It is proposed that consideration of the call-in be structured as follows: · Brief outline of the reasons for the call-in by representative (s) of the members who have called in the decision · Response to the reasons provided for the Call-in by a Cabinet Member responsible for taking the decision · Debate by Overview and Scrutiny Committee and agreement of action to be taken. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Committee received a report from the Director of Law and Governance outlining details of a call-in received on the Cabinet decision taken on- The Future of the Responsive Repairs Service (Report No:53).
Councillor Levy reminded everyone that discussion on the call-in should not be a political debate. An argument would need to be made to persuade members to revert the Cabinet decision back for their reconsideration, or the decision should stand.
Councillor Smith was invited to outline the reasons for call-in.
Councillor Smith thanked officers for the helpful answers he had received in response to the reasons he had given for call-in. He said there were two main reasons why he had called-in the decision. Firstly, because it was not clear that in-sourcing the management of elements of the housing repairs service would lead to the required improvements in the service, and secondly because there appears to be substantial financial and other risks involved that do not justify making the changes proposed.
He highlighted the following:
In conclusion, Councillor Smith was of the opinion, that the risks involved in the decision to in-source ... view the full minutes text for item 118. |
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CALL-IN: LED CONVERSION PROJECT 2019 FOR HIGHWAY STREET LIGHTING PDF 143 KB To receive and consider a report from the Director of Law and Governance outlining details of a call-in received on the Cabinet decision taken on LED Conversion Project 2019 for Highway Street Lighting (Report No. 54)
The decision that has been called in was a Cabinet Decision taken on 12 June 2019 and included on the Publication of Decision List No: 8/19-20 (List Ref: 3/8/19-20) issued on 14 June 2019.
It is proposed that consideration of the call-in be structured as follows: · Brief outline of the reasons for the call-in by representative (s) of the members who have called in the decision. · Response to the reasons provided for the Call-in by a Cabinet Member responsible for taking the decision. · Debate by Overview and Scrutiny Committee and agreement of action to be taken. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Committee received a report from the Director of Law and Governance outlining details of a call-in received on the Cabinet decision taken on – LED Conversion Project 2019 for Highway Street Lighting. (Report No:54).
Councillor Levy referred to the absence of Councillor Dogan, Cabinet Member of Environment and Sustainability who had been expected to attend the meeting. Councillor Barnes and Jewell were in the audience and were asked, as Members of the Cabinet (who would have been involved in discussions at Cabinet and active parties to the decision being called in), if they wished to participate in the discussion of this item but they refrained from doing so.
Councillor Anderson was invited to outline the reasons for call-in. He said he was disappointed that Councillor Dogan was not in attendance. He had received responses to his reasons for call-in and drew attention to five key reasons of concern –
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MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS HELD ON THE 1 MAY 2019 AND 22 MAY 2019 PDF 99 KB To agree the minutes of the meetings held on the 1 May 2019 and 22 May 2019. Additional documents: Minutes: Noted that the Minutes had previously been agreed. |
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DATES OF FUTURE MEETINGS To note the dates of future meetings as follows:
Business meetings of OSC · Tuesday 23 July 2019 · Wednesday 4 September 2019 · Thursday 7 November 2019 · Wednesday 15 January 2020 · Thursday 13 February 2020 · Thursday 2 April 2020
Provisional Call-In dates · Thursday 8 August 2019 · Thursday 19 September 2019 · Thursday 31 October 2019 · Thursday 28 November 2019 · Thursday 19 December 2019 · Thursday 30 January 2020 · Thursday 6 February 2020 · Wednesday 4 March 2020 · Thursday 26 March 2020 · Tuesday 28 April 2020 Minutes: . |