Agenda and minutes

No apologies for absence were received.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the above meeting, having been circulated, be approved as a correct record.

None.

The Service Director, Planning and Economic Development, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Cabinet of Gedling Borough’s Authority Monitoring Report April 2012 – March 2013 and Gedling Borough’s Five Year Housing Land Supply Assessment 2013.

Councillor Pulk thanked the Service Director and his team for their work.

RESOLVED:

To note the content of the Authority Monitoring Report April 2012 – March 2013 and the Five Year Housing Land Supply Assessment 2013.

Councillor Payne entered the meeting during consideration of the report.

The Corporate Director and Chief Financial Officer presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Cabinet of the position against Improvement Actions and Performance Indicators and on the likely outturn of the Revenue and Capital Budgets for the 2013/14 financial year and seeking approval for changes to targets and budgets.

RESOLVED:

a)        To approve the changes to Performance Indicator targets and Actions  as detailed in paragraphs 2.1.7 and 2.1.8 of the report;

b)        To approve the General Fund Revenue Budget virements included within Appendix 1 of the report;

c)         To approve the changes to the Capital Programme included in paragraph 2.2.3 of the report;

d)        To include details of budget and performance monitoring in a quarterly performance digest, to be published on the Council’s website and Intranet in line with the recommendations of Performance Review Scrutiny Committee.

Report of Senior Members’ Services Officer.

The Corporate Director presented a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, seeking Cabinet’s approval of a revised room hire policy and charges for external use of meeting facilities.

RESOLVED:

To adopt the proposed Council Room Hire Policy and agree the proposed room hire charges.

The Corporate Director presented a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Cabinet of the conclusion of the Local Government Boundary Commission’s (LGBCE) review of Gedling Borough Council.

RESOLVED:

To note the content of the report.

Report of Corporate Director (Stephen Bray).

The Corporate Director presented a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Cabinet of the progress of plans to introduce a Youth Council for Gedling Borough.

Councillor Barnfather asked that the Corporate Director work to include those young people who reside in the Borough, but attend Joseph Whittaker School in Mansfield, and offered to approach the school in his position as Chair of the Governors.

RESOLVED:

a.    To note the contents of the report;

b.    To support steps to establish a Youth Council for Gedling Borough; and

c.    To request that the Joseph Whitaker School are approached regarding their participation.

Report of the Service Manager Elections and Members’ Services.

Consideration was given to a report of the Service Manager, Elections and Members’ Services, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, detailing the Executive’s draft Forward Plan for the next four month period.

RESOLVED:

To note the report.

Councillor Peter Barnes (Environment)

·         A Local Government Association challenge team is currently visiting the Council and looking at the Gedling Country Park. A report will be brought to Cabinet at a later date to update Members on this.

·         Line marking work is being carried out at the Civic Centre site, including all car parks in Arnot Hill Park.

·         Would like to thank Officers for arranging for him to take part in a ward walk with partner organisations.

Councillor Darrell Pulk (Leisure and Development)

·         Killisick ward has been chosen to receive Connecting Communities Funding to pilot a school/community partnership which aims to improve community health and wellbeing.

·         A tender will open for the provision of Obesity and Weight Management Services in Nottinghamshire. Gedling’s exercise promotion team is currently looking at opportunities to submit a collaborative tender with other district Councils.

·         The “Get Going Gedling” programme of volunteer led walks has now been extended to include the Mapperley area.

·         Charlotte Henshaw, the Paralympic silver medallist, will be attending the “Go for it!!” Camp that is held for children with disabilities at Redhill Leisure Centre in half term.

·         Sports Development have attracted additional Sportivate funding of over £5000 to target semi-sporty 11-25 year olds.

·         Ceramic art produced last year by families from Gedling will be exhibited at the Nottingham Light Night on the 28^th of February. The art has already been shown at Rufford Park before Christmas and will be shown, where it was made, in Arnot Hill Park in March.

·         Walking Football sessions will be held at Redhill and Carlton Forum on weekends from the first weekend in March. The sessions are aimed at men and women over 50 that can’t quite manage the pace of a fast game of football.

·         Gedling Borough Council has been awarded a Silver Award for its Well at Work programme by the NHS Sports and Physical Activity Challenge. Only 3 Local Authorites were awarded accreditation.

Councillor Kathryn Fox (Community Development)

·         A Funding Fair will be held on the 12^th of March from 2-7pm at the Richard Herrod Centre, following the success of last year’s event.

·         A no-smoking event will be held in Netherfield on the 15^th of March from 10am-3pm.

·         The Killisick Locality Launch took place on the 27^th January and was attended by local ward Councillors, the Portfolio Holder, the Leader, Council Officers and representatives of 22 partner organisations.

·         A Chinese New Year event took place at the Civic Centre in February. The event was organised in conjunction with the Gedling Play Forum and Debz4Coffee and was attended by over 300 people.

Councillor Jenny Hollingsworth (Health and Housing)

·         The Ley Street Choir are planning to record a song and will be performing in the Civic Centre foyer on the 20^th of February before the next meeting of Cabinet.

·         There are currently just over 930 active cases in Housing, however bidding activity has decreased which is making housing allocation more difficult.

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Prudential Code Indicator Monitoring 2013/14 and Quarterly Treasury Activity Report for Quarter ended 31 December 2014

The Corporate Director and Chief Financial Officer presented a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Cabinet of the performance monitoring of the 2013/14 Prudential Code Indicators, and advising members of the quarterly treasury activity as required by the Treasury Management Strategy.

RESOLVED:

To note the report, together with the Treasury Activity Report for Quarter 3 at Appendix 1, and the Prudential and Treasury Indicator Monitoring for Quarter 3 at Appendix 3.