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Apologies Minutes: Apologies were received from Cllr Douglas, Rvd Kemp, Cllr McKeown, Cllr Moss and Cllr Rogers.
Cllr McKeown substituted for Cllr Jenkins. |
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Declarations of Interest To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.
Minutes: No declarations of interest were received. |
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Chairman's Announcements Minutes: There were no Chairman’s Announcements. |
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Public Participation The Council welcomes contributions from members of the public.
Statements
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Questions
To receive any questions from members of the public or members of the Council received in accordance with the constitution. Those wishing to ask questions are required to give notice of any such questions in writing to the officer named above no later than 5pm on Wednesday 3 July 2013. Please contact the officer named on the first page of this agenda for further advice. Questions may be asked without notice if the Chairman decides that the matter is urgent.
Details of any questions received will be circulated to Committee members prior to the meeting and made available at the meeting and on the Council’s website. Minutes: There was no public participation. |
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Review of Business Plan Priorities At the Overview & Scrutiny Management Committee on 25 June 2013, it was agreed that the task of scrutinising the Draft Business Plan 2013 – 2017 would be undertaken by the individual select committees, each looking at topics of specific interest to their committee.
The views of each committee will then be considered by the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the Overview & Scrutiny Management Committee and the three select committees on Monday 8 July 2013 and then incorporated into one report to go to the Cabinet meeting on 23 July. The Chairman has agreed that this meeting be called at short notice in order to meet this very short timescale.
At the meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Management Committee on 25 June, the Executive indicated that it had identified 12 priorities or ‘deliverables’ for the Council and has provided the list for each select committee to consider, as follows:-
Key Deliverables 1 Invest additional money between 2014-17 to reduce the historic backlog in highways maintenance.
2 Stimulate economic growth and create additional jobs in partnership with the LEP.
3 Further enhance the role of Area Boards, developing innovative community led approaches to designing and delivering services.
4 Improve the attainment, skills and achievement of all children and young People.
5 Support the most vulnerable in our local communities and improve our safeguarding services.
6 Invest to refurbish council housing and encourage the development new affordable homes, including supported living in rural areas.
7 Build on the work of the Military Civilian Integration Programme and maximise benefits arising from the Army Basing Plan.
8 Delegate cost neutral packages of land, services and assets to town and parish councils.
9 Create a campus opportunity in each community area.
10 Integrate public health at the heart of all public services.
11 Doing things differently for less to deliver at least £120m budget cost reductions over the four years.
12 Develop the knowledge, skills, behaviours & leadership of our workforce & our managers.
A copy of the overall Business Plan is included. Supporting documents: Minutes: The Chairman reminded those present of the purpose of the meeting and the process to be followed:
At the O&S Management Committee on 25 June 2013, it had been agreed that each of the overview and scrutiny committees would hold extraordinary meetings to consider the relevant areas of the Draft Business Plan 2013-17. The comments of all four committees would then be considered by the chairman and vice-chairman on Monday 8 July, before being submitted to Cabinet for consideration.
At this stage the Committee had been asked to provide a broad and strategic overview focusing on the 12 key deliverables already outlined by Cabinet and included within the agenda. Opportunities for more detailed scrutiny would come once the services plans were available, potentially prior to the Business Plan coming to Full Council should the O&S Management Committee consider this to be the appropriate approach.
The Cabinet Member for Children’s Services highlighted the following points:
The Committee worked through the draft Business Plan 2013-17 and made the following comments (the headings within the draft Business Plan are included in bold for ease of reference):
“People and Places”
“People in Wiltshire work together to solve problems locally and participate in decisions that affect them”
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