Meeting documents

Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Thursday, 8 March 2007

Business Support
Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Presentation Suite
Civic Centre
Strood
Thursday, 8 March 2007
7:00 pm
AGENDA
1TO APPROVE THE RECORD OF THE FOLLOWING MEETING:
 
 7 February 2007
2TO RECEIVE APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
3URGENT 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.
4DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
 
 (a)Personal interests under the Medway Code of Conduct
 (b)Prejudicial interests under the Medway Code of Conduct

A Councillor who declares a prejudicial interest must withdraw from the room unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Council's Standard's Committee or the exemption under paragraph 12(2) of the Medway Code of Conduct applies.

If an interest is not declared at the outset of the meeting, it should be disclosed as soon as the interest becomes apparent.
 (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.
5ATTENDANCE BY COUNCILLOR MASON (PORTFOLIO HOLDER FOR CORPORATE SERVICES) - HOLDING THE EXECUTIVE TO ACCOUNT
 
Councillor Mason will attend the meeting to give account of his performance against Council targets in his portfolio as far as they relate to this Committee.
6ATTENDANCE BY COUNCILLOR JANICE BAMBER (PORTFOLIO HOLDER FOR CUSTOMER FIRST AND COMMUNITY SAFETY) - HOLDING THE EXECUTIVE TO ACCOUNT
 
Councillor Janice Bamber will attend the meeting to give account of her performance against Council targets in her portfolio as far as they relate to this Committee.
7TO CONSIDER REPORTS AS FOLLOWS:
 (A)Customer First (Performance management)
 
This report updates the Committee on progress with the customer first programme.
 > Customer First (pdf file 33.4kb)
 (B)Work programme (Business management)
 
This report allows the Committee to consider changes or additions to be made to the work programme and to request items from the forward plan as pre-decision scrutiny.
 > Work programme (pdf file 11.1kb)
 > REVISED Work programme schedule (pdf file 12.9kb)