Agenda and decisions

274/2005 These decisions are the most appropriate means of developing the business of the Medway Control Centre to generate additional income and to support service delivery in a number of key areas of Council activity.
275/2005 The Cabinet agreed to waive contract rules and enter into a strategic trading partnership with the company detailed in the exempt report and a hosted technology agreement for the provision of alarms call handling technology for a period of 5 years.
276/2005 The Cabinet agreed that further investigation and costings be undertaken on the feasibility of relocating the control centre and updating the CCTV technology to digital and that this be reported back to Cabinet.
277/2005 The Cabinet agreed that further investigation be undertaken of the most appropriate method to raise the funding to support decision 276/2005 above and that this be reported back to Cabinet.
278/2005 The Cabinet agreed that further work be carried out into the costs and restructuring of the staffing in the control centre and that this be reported back to Cabinet.
279/2005 The Cabinet agreed that contract rules be waived to the extent lawfully necessary to permit this proposal.

269/2005 The Cabinet agreed to a smoking ban in all the Council owned and controlled buildings and that staff be given six months' prior notice of the implementation of the smoking ban.
270/2005 The Cabinet agreed that the following be excluded from the smoking ban:
a) Residential Care Homes - Service users over the age of 16 who are in permanent residential care provided by the Council be provided with an appropriate smoking area in the homes
b) Council Housing.
271/2005 The Cabinet instructed officers to undertake the necessary consultation with governing bodies to take forward the smoking ban in schools following to decision 269/2005 above.
272/2005 The Cabinet recommend that all employment issues relating to the implementation of a smoking ban be considered by the Employment Matters Committee.
273/2005 The Cabinet agreed that smoking rooms be retained where already provided, but kept under review until the new measures contained within the Health Bill are introduced in 2007.

268/2005 The Cabinet recommended to Council to agree the changes to the constitution rules set out in sections 4, 5 and 6 of the report and set out in the appendices to the report.

258/2005 The Cabinet noted the unsupported capital commitments from 2005/2006 as summarised in Table 1 of the report.
259/2005 The Cabinet endorsed, subject to the capital settlement, the core programme summarised in Table 2 of the report with the deletion of the indoor tennis centre.
260/2005 The Cabinet noted the unfunded schemes detailed in Table 3 of the report and the additional work referred to in paragraph 4.8 of the report in order to present a complete programme for approval at budget setting.
261/2005 The Cabinet forwarded the provisional draft capital programme to Overview and Scrutiny as work in progress inviting them to offer comments on the proposals outlined.

256/2005 The Cabinet reaffirmed its decisions from 18 October 2005 that there should be a review of primary school places in the Walderslade area and for public consultation on the proposed options to be carried out as set out as scenarios 1 and 2 in appendix 2 of the report.

280/2005 The Cabinet agreed to unfreeze the following posts, as detailed in Appendix 1 to the report, to enable Directors to commence the recruitment process:
Community Services
a) Library Service Advisor x 2
Finance and Corporate Services
b) Finance Assistant
c) Junior Finance Assistant
d) Accounting Technician x 2
e) Accounting Technician
f) Principal Accountant
g) Application Support Technician.

262/2005 The Cabinet noted with concern the current forecast net overspend of £1.611m reflecting action taken to date.
263/2005 The Cabinet instructed officers to achieve savings and income to eliminate the residual overspend and contribute to the shortfall in the corporate savings target.
264/2005 The Cabinet expressed particular concern at the forecast for the SEN service and adult disability services and required immediate corrective action with further details reported during the next monitoring cycle.
265/2005 The Cabinet agreed to implement a moratorium on all spending with immediate effect provided it does not cause deterioration in the delivery of front line services, such spending to be subject to directors' specific approval.

266/2005 The Cabinet noted that:
a) Spend and commitments on the approved programme amounted to approximately £47 million
b) Forecast spend during 2005/2006 as a whole amounted to £96 million
c) The virement within the existing programme detailed in section 8 of the report.
267/2005 The Cabinet recommended the proposed additions to the capital programme, as described in section 7 of the report, to Council for approval.

257/2005 The Cabinet agreed to forward the provisional draft budget and summary business plans to Overview and Scrutiny as work in progress inviting them to offer comments on the proposals outlined.