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Referral From the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Asset Management Strategy

Meeting: 30/04/2024 - Cabinet (Item 7)

7 Referral From the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Asset Management Strategy PDF 137 KB

Additional documents:

APPENDIX 1 - Property and Capital Projects OandS Report, item 7 PDF 1 MB

Minutes:

Background:

This report set out a referral from the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee with regards to the Corporate Building Survey Results report that had been considered by the Committee on 28 February 2024.

The Committee had recommended to Cabinet that it ask officers to review the Asset Management Strategy for corporate buildings and provide an update and action plan at a future Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Members of the Committee were keen to ensure that the deficit would be more closely monitored in future alongside robust action planning to address the shortfall and its impact.

The Cabinet report advised that officers had begun to review the corporate property portfolio to look at asset rationalisation and Building Repairs and Maintenance Fund (BRMF) spending as a holistic project rather than separate. The work had begun following the report to the scrutiny committee and it was anticipated that this would be reported back to Members during quarter 2 2024/25.

Decision number:	Decision:
74/2024	The Cabinet requested that officers review the Asset Management Strategy.
75/2024	The Cabinet instructed that following a review of the Asset Management Strategy, officers would report back to Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee with an update and action plan for corporate buildings.
	The Cabinet noted that the revised Asset Management Strategy and action plan would be reported back to the Cabinet for approval, having been considered by the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee as pre-decision scrutiny.

Reasons:

The Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee has made these recommendations to Cabinet in accordance with its entitlement, under the Council’s Constitution, to make recommendations to Cabinet arising from the outcome of the scrutiny process (Constitution – Articles of the Constitution – Chapter 2, Article 6, Paragraph 6.4). Cabinet was, therefore required to consider its response.