Decisions

That, under s.100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 Schedule 12A Part 1 as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 the public be excluded during the items in Part 2 of the Agenda for this meeting, because it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that, if members of the public were present during those items, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information relating to the financial and business affairs of the Council and third party companies/organisations.

Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, Part 1, paragraph 3

The forward plan was noted with the following changes:

·         Move the Strategic Sites Design Guidance Supplementary Planning Document to February

There were no referrals to Cabinet.

There was no public participation. 

There were no declarations of interest.

There were no apologies for absence.

Minutes of the meeting held on 15 October 2019 were agreed by Members present and signed by the Chair.

To seek approval for the amended Commissioning and Procurement Standing Orders & Strategy

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

To agree the Commissioning & Procurement Strategy (appendix 1) and the revised Commissioning and Procurement Standing Orders (appendix 3)

A review of the 2019/20 financial position of DBC as at the end of quarter 2, the 30^th September 2019.

1.    Consider the budget monitoring position for each of the above accounts;

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND:

2. The approval of the revised capital programme to move £3.1m slippage identified at Quarter 2 into financial year 2020/21 as detailed in Appendix C;

3. the approval of a supplementary revenue budget funded from reserves:

·         Supplementary budget of £30k in the Garage service, funded from the Invest to Save reserve, to fund a specialist project manager to lead on improvements to the garage letting process

4. the approval of supplementary capital budgets required to deliver several service changes as set out below:

·         A capital budget of £25k to fund payment kiosks in the Customer Services Unit.

·         Additional capital budget of £400k to deliver the Bunkers Farm project.

·         Supplementary budget of £161k in the HRA capital budget Strategic Acquisitions, to fund buy-back of a leasehold property.

5. Approve capital virements to reallocate budget from existing leisure budgets to fund Berkhamsted Leisure Centre Improvements Works:

·         Create a budget of £276k for Berkhamsted Leisure Centre Improvements Works by reallocating budget from:

a) Hemel Sports Centre roof £100k

b) Berkhamsted Sports Centre Building Management System £150k

c) Replace

The annual publication of the council tax support scheme in DBC.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND:

To not revise or replace the current Council Tax Support scheme for 2020/21.

Seek funding from Management of Change Reserve to fund technology pilots in Business Process Reviews and Re-Engineering and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

That the principle of running pilot projects in the Council in Business Process Reengineering and Robotic Process Automation and agree to appoint the suppliers noted in the Part II report be agreed.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

The approval to release £93,495 from the Management of Change reserve to fund this work.

To be provided

Thatthe sites listed in Parts 1 of the Brownfield Land Register (BLR) as drafted in Appendix 1 be approved and delegate authority to the Assistant Director (Planning, Development and Regeneration) to finalise the site specific information before publication and note that no sites are recommended for inclusion in Part 2.

The DBC policy for discretionary rate relief on business properties for 2019/20 onwards.

1)    That the adoption of the updated discretionary rate relief policy (annex A) be approved.

2)    That the adoption of the revised Enterprise Zone rate relief policy (annex B) be approved.

To approve the recommendations following a benchmarking review of the Total Asset management Contract