| 1 | TO APPROVE THE RECORD OF THE FOLLOWING MEETING: |
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| 2 | TO RECEIVE APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE |
| 3 | URGENT MATTERS BY REASON OF SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES |
| | | The Chairman will announce any late items which do not appear on the main agenda but which he has agreed should be considered by reason of special circumstances to be specified in the reports. |
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| | > 5G Operation of the Housing Maintenance Contract (pdf file 78.6kb) |
| | > 5G Appendix 1 Operation of the Housing Maintenance Contract (pdf file 261.5kb) |
| 4 | DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST |
| | | | (a) | Personal interests under the Medway Code of Conduct
A Councillor who declares a personal interest in a matter, including the nature of the interest, may stay, speak and vote on the matter.
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| | (b) | Prejudicial interests under the Medway Code of Conduct
A Councillor who declares a personal and prejudicial interest in a matter, including the nature of the interest, must withdraw from the room and take no part in the debate or vote on the matter.
Councillors who have declared a personal and prejudicial interest may make representations, answer questions and give evidence before leaving the room but only if members of the public are allowed to attend for the same purpose.
If an interest is not declared at the outset of the meeting, it should be disclosed as soon as the interest becomes apparent.
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| | (c) | Whipping - the Council's constitution also requires any Member of the Committee who is subject to a party whip (i.e. agreeing to vote in line with the majority view of a private party group meeting) to declare the existence of the whip and the nature of it before the item is discussed. |
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| 5 | TO CONSIDER REPORTS AS FOLLOWS: |
| | (A) | Member's item: Local Government Ombudsman's Annual Letter 2008 (Member's item) |
| | | This report was requested by Councillor Griffiths as a Member item. To assist service improvement the Local Government Ombudsman issues an annual public letter to local authorities providing a summary of the complaints received by the Ombudsman for that authority. This report presents for consideration the Ombudsman's 2007/08 annual letter to Medway. |
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| | > Appendix LGO Annual Letter 200708 (pdf file 198.1kb) |
| | > Draft Ombudsman Report (pdf file 147.1kb) |
| | (B) | Resource Strategy (Pre-decision scrutiny) |
| | | This report reviews the major financial issues facing the Council in this and the next three years. It also provides a framework for the more detailed preparation of the draft revenue budget for 2009/2010. |
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| | > Resource Strategy (pdf file 279.8kb) |
| | (C) | Council Plan and Annual Report (Pre-decision scrutiny) |
| | | The Committee is asked to comment to Cabinet on the development of the Council Plan for 2009-2012. |
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| | > Council Plan and Annual Report (pdf file 134.5kb) |
| | (D) | Critical Success Factors (Performance management) |
| | | This report is to inform the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee about the progress against the Council's main priorities during the first quarter of 2008/09 using a set of defined critical success factors (CSFs). |
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| | > CSF 1st quarter 2008 (pdf file 976.8kb) |
| | (E) | Housing Improvement Plan (Performance management) |
| | | This report is in response to the request at the last meeting for further information. |
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| | > Housing improvement plan update (pdf file 86.7kb) |
| | > Housing improvement plan schedule update (pdf file 119.0kb) |
| | (F) | Work programme (Business management) |
| | | Members are asked if they wish to make changes to the work programme and to note the activity across all Overview and Scrutiny Committees over the last cycle and for the next cycle. |
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| | > Work programme report (pdf file 109.0kb) |
| | > Work programme schedule - appendix 1 (pdf file 91.6kb) |
| | > Work programme Scrutiny Activity - appendix 2 (pdf file 90.3kb) |
| | > Work programme forward plan - appendix 3 (pdf file 72.9kb) |