| 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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| 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 | ATTENDANCE BY COUNCILLOR JANICE BAMBER, PORTFOLIO HOLDER FOR CUSTOMER FIRST AND CORPORATE SERVICES |
| | | Councillor Janice Bamber will attend the meeting to give account of her performance against the targets in her portfolio. |
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| 6 | TO CONSIDER REPORTS AS FOLLOWS: |
| | (A) | Capital and revenue budget proposals 2008/2009 overview and scrutiny response (Budget scrutiny) |
| | | This report presents for consideration the Cabinet's draft capital and revenue budgets for 2008/2009 relating to all Committees prior to consideration by Cabinet. |
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| | > Capital and Revenue budget proposals (pdf file 30.4kb) |
| | (B) | Critical success factors (Performance management) |
| | | The purpose of this report is to inform overview and scrutiny Members about the progress against the Council's main priorities during the first three quarters of this financial year, as indicated through the monitoring of the defined critical success factor indicators (CSFs). Members are asked to scrutinise the Council's performance against these key objectives. This report covers the period April 2007 to December 2007. |
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| | > CSF's (pdf file 84.3kb) |
| | (C) | The Local Strategic Partnership and Local Area Agreements (Performance management) |
| | | This report informs Members of the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee of the requirements to produce a new Local Area Agreement (LAA). The report also advises Members of progress towards developing a stronger framework for partnership working and preparing the LAA. |
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| | > Appendix 1 (pdf file 13.6kb) |
| | > Appendix 2 (pdf file 18.6kb) |
| | > Appendix 3 (pdf file 878.3kb) |
| | > LSP report (pdf file 24.7kb) |
| | (D) | Revenue budget monitoring (Budget scrutiny) |
| | | This report summarises the financial monitoring position for the current year to date. This is the fourth monitoring report for the year and is based on actual income and expenditure to November 2007. |
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| | > Appendix (pdf file 10.6kb) |
| | > Nov Monitoring 6 February (pdf file 19.3kb) |
| | (E) | Capital budget monitoring (Budget scrutiny) |
| | | This report summarises the financial monitoring position for the current year to date. |
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| | > Appendix 1 (pdf file 9.0kb) |
| | > Appendix 2 (pdf file 18.2kb) |
| | > Appendix 3 (pdf file 26.8kb) |
| | > Appendix 4 (pdf file 21.4kb) |
| | > Appendix 5 (pdf file 24.5kb) |
| | > Appendix 6 (pdf file 28.3kb) |
| | > Appendix 7 (pdf file 9.5kb) |
| | > Capital budget monitoring (pdf file 34.3kb) |
| | (F) | Work programme (Business management) |
| | | This report asks Members to consider whether to make any amendments to the current work programme. The report also sets out the existing work programmes up to the Annual Council meeting for Members to consider as part of the co-ordinating role of the Committee. |
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| | > Appendix - Work programme schedule (pdf file 15.2kb) |
| | > Appendix 2 - Scrutiny activity (pdf file 13.6kb) |
| | > Appendix 3 - Forward plan (pdf file 10.5kb) |
| | > Work programme - report (pdf file 12.0kb) |