Issue - meetings

To receive the Leaders Annual Report providing Members with an update on performance against the corporate plan and local service targets for 2017-18.

The Group had before it and NOTED the Leaders Annual *report providing Members with an update on performance against the Corporate Plan and local service targets for 2017-18.

He outlined the contents of the report highlighting the various threads of the Corporate Plan and the performance against priorities.

Discussion took place with regard to:

·         The litter buster scheme, how the scheme worked and how to request the attendance of the team at specific sites; the need to address littering issues quickly so that they did not multiply.

·         The high cost of maintenance to council owned vehicles and how the costs could be reduced. A list of new purchases and a rundown of the fleet was requested.

·         What had happened to the brown bins that were no longer used other than for the prepaid garden waste scheme.

·         The adoption of the Air Quality Action Plan 2017-21, but what was being achieved?  Air quality figures to be supplied.

·         The large number of empty homes brought back into use.

·         The cost of development at Palmerston Park and Birchen Lane

·         The need for the Economy Policy Development Group to consider public transport in Mid Devon

·         Although Aim 1 under Community was laudable what was actually being done and how  the new Community Housing Fund would work

·         The possible need for the creation of a community fund which would support local communities.

The Group Manager for Performance, Governance and Data Security provided the following answers to questions posed in public question time:  the figures on the performance appendix were cumulative for the year to date; the cumulative percentage for the first 9 months to December 2017 was 67%. In the covering report and Leaders Report (agenda Item 10), the quoted figure of 89% was for the first 3 months of 2018 hence the different figures. 

Discussion took place regarding the volume of FOI enquiries and the reasons why 100% of responses could not always be provided within the timescales allowed in statute.

Members recorded their appreciation and congratulations to the Land Charges and Gazetteer Teams following their recent awards.

Note: *Report previously circulated.