Minutes for Cabinet Member - Corporate Services meeting, May 27 2009, 10.00AM official page

An apology for absence was received from Councillor McGuire.

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

No declarations of interest were received.

Minutes of the meeting held on 29 April 2009.

RESOLVED:

That the Minutes of the meeting held on 29 April 2009 be confirmed as a record.

Report of the Chief Executive

Further to Minute No. 97 of the meeting of the Cabinet Member – Communities of 20 May 2009, the Cabinet Member considered the report of the Chief Executive informing of her Departmental Service Plan 2009/10 – 2011/12 and setting out the Annual Action Plans for this period.

Attached as an Annex to the report was a copy of the Chief Executive’s Three Year Service Delivery Plan (Departmental Service Plan) 2009/10 – 2011/12.

RESOLVED: That Cabinet be requested to:

(1)

note the progress made on 2008/09 actions; and

(2)

 approve the intended action plans 2009/10 – 2011/12.

Report of the Strategic Director of Adult Social services (Health and Social Care)

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Strategic Director of Adult Social Services (Health and Social Care) seeking approval to facilitate the admission of Crime Reduction Initiative (CRI) to the Merseyside Pension Fund and approve the terms of the Admission Agreement.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the application of the Crime Reduction Initiative (CRI) to the Merseyside Pension Fund be supported and approved to proceed on a closed and fully funded basis; and

(2)       that the CRI be required to pay the appropriate bond figure required by the fund. 

Report of the Personnel Director

The Cabinet Member considered the report of Personnel Director seeking approval to bring consistency to the level of deductions made during strike action.

RESOLVED:

That the proposal to deduct on the basis of one fifth of a week’s wages for those staff who refuse to attend work during strike action be approved.  

Report of the Finance and Information Services Director

The Cabinet Member considered the report of Finance and Information Services Director advising of the findings of the Customer Satisfaction Survey for 2008/09.

RESOLVED:

That the findings of the Customer Satisfaction Survey for 2008/09 be noted.

To consider passing the following resolution:

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the Press and Public.

RESOLVED:  

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the ground that it may involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test had been applied and favoured exclusion of the information from the press and public.

Joint report of the Finance and Information Services Director and the Personnel Director.

The Cabinet Member considered the joint report of the Finance and Information Services Director and Personnel Director to update on operational service delivery performance in relation to services delivered by arvarto Government Services.  

RESOLVED:

That the update on operational service delivery performance in relation to services delivered by arvarto Government Services be noted.  

To receive a presentation from Ms Jo Lloyd, Corporate Learning and Development Manager, Personnel Department

The Cabinet Member received a presentation from Jo Lloyd, Corporate Learning and Development Manager, Personnel Department.

The presentation gave an introduction to the team and their roles, a detailed description of the work undertaken within the section and their aims and vision.

RESOLVED:

That Ms Lloyd be thanked for her interesting and informative presentation.