Agenda and decisions

131/2005 The Cabinet agreed to unfreeze the following posts, as detailed in Appendix 1 to the report, to enable Directors to commence the recruitment process:

Education and Leisure
a) PA Support to Director's Office

Finance and Corporate Services
b) Advice and Consultancy Manager
c) Employee Relations Manager
d) Strategic Procurement and Contracts Manager

Health and Community Services
e) Empty Homes Officer
f) Health and Housing Strategy Officer
g) Customer Services Assistant.

127/2005 The Cabinet recommended to Council acceptance of PWC's audit plan for 2005/2006.

123/2005 The Cabinet accepted the comments of the Finance and Performance Management Overview and Scrutiny Committee as laid out in the addendum report with the exception of points 3.11 and 3.17, which were not accepted.
124/2005 The Cabinet recommended the draft plan as amended and the performance tables circulated in the addendum report, to Council on 16 June 2005 for approval as part of the Council's policy framework.
125/2005 The Cabinet noted that data for three performance indicators was outstanding and would not be available in time for despatch of the report to Council. Therefore, the Cabinet recommended to Council that finalising the detail of performance against the outstanding indicators be delegated to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Services.
126/2005 The Cabinet approved the circulation of the summary plan to all Medway residents as a supplement in the September/October edition of Medway Matters.

128/2005 The Cabinet noted the current performance against the Council's CSFs as indicated by the fourth quarter.

129/2005 The Cabinet recorded its thanks to officers for their work in achieving the Council's PSA targets.
130/2005 The Cabinet noted the comments of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees and agreed to future CSF reports detailing the allocation of PSA reward grant that was made by Council as part of the budget setting process for 2005/2006.

121/2005 The Cabinet supported the following proposals:
A service manager post of Safer Communities - Strategy be established covering Trading Standards, Emergency Planning, Community Safety Strategy and Enforcement Strategy.

A service manager post of Safer Communities - Operations be established covering Environmental Health and all the street teams, including the Community Safety Team and the Litter Enforcement Officers.

A new service manager post be established to take an overview of enforcement, located in Finance and Corporate Services.

The 3 posts set out above replace the posts of Community Safety and Wardens, Head of Environmental Health and Head of Trading Standards and Emergency Planning.

Arts be merged with Libraries, providing a further service manager saving.

Bereavement Services moves to the Social Care division.

Housing Strategy stays with Planning.

Customer First and First Point of Contact move to the Chief Executive's.

The travellers function be located with Enforcement in Finance and Corporate Services.

Development Control and Building Control be divided (the creation of this additional service manager post to be funded through a reorganisation of the teams below).
122/2005 The Cabinet endorsed the final structure, as amended by decision no. 121/2005 for implementation.

132/2005 The Cabinet agreed to recommend to Council to:
(i) Delegate authority to the Director of Finance and Corporate Services to proceed with the purchase of the site on the terms set out in the exempt appendix.
(ii) Add the scheme to the approved capital programme.