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Legal support is required to support Hemel
Garden Communities (HGC) with wide-ranging legal expertise to
secure Garden Town/Communities development growth and
infrastructure expectations for the HGC Programme Area including
the delivery and planning application delivery stages (pre
application and application stages).
Decision Maker: Assistant Director - Place, Communities and Enterprise
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 21/01/2025
Decision:
To approve an award to Bloom to carry out a
Further Competition exercise via the NEPRO framework for legal
support for the Hemel Garden Communities programme.
Lead officer: Vanessa Cooper
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 12/02/2025
Decision:
RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND
1. Cabinet recommended that Council agree the creation of a Council Tax Setting Committee.
2. Cabinet recommended that Council agree to the terms of reference for the Committee as set out in section 2 of the report and delegates authority to the Monitoring Officer to make the required changes to the Constitution to incorporate the Committee
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 12/02/2025
Decision:
RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND
Cabinet recommended that Council approve the release of £1.16m of New Homes Bonus, currently held in reserve, for spend on sustainability projects as detailed in the report.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 12/02/2025
Decision:
RESOVLED TO RECOMMEND
That Cabinet Recommends to Full Council the following:
1. To the updates to the Commissioning & Procurement Standing Orders (CPSOs) as set out below
a) That the content of the proposed CPSOs is separated out so that the principles, objectives, and ambitions remain, but the technical guidance is removed.
b) That the CPSOs are redrafted to simplify and improve the strategic governance and operational effectiveness as set out in section 2.3.2 of the main report.
c) That the ‘Supplementary Instructions’ attributed to the CPSOs, that set out the technical aspects of the commissioning and procurement activities for officer compliance, are drafted as separate documents as set out in section 2.3.3 of the main report.
d) That any future amendments to the CPSOs will be subject to the amendment protocol as set out in section 2.3.4 of the main report.
e) That the content of the CPSOs shall be based upon the procurement principles, objectives, and ambitions as set out in section 2.3.5 of the main report.
2. That the Constitution will be updated to ensure that the Financial Regulations align with the financial thresholds stated on the CPSOs as set out below
a) Part 8 – Annex 1 Financial Regulations (Annex D Schemes of Delegation) increase value for Head of Service for contract letting from £75k to £99,999 and for Team Leaders from £25k to £29,999, and to increase approvals on Unit 4 for Team Leaders from £25k to £29,999.
b) Section 5: The acquisition of assets (Regulation E.5) increase value for Head of Service for total asset purchase price from £75k to £99,999 and for Team Leaders from £25k to £29,999
3. That the Constitution will be updated as set out below:
a) Part 8 – Annex 2 Procurement Standing Orders replace the existing CPSOs with the new updated version that incorporates the changes brought about by the implementation of the PA23.
4. Cabinet recommended that Council delegated authority to the Monitoring Officer to make any consequential amendments to the Constitution to give
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 12/02/2025
Decision:
Cabinet agreed a new 2 year Service Level Agreement to Community Action Dacorum for the Shop Mobility Service on the terms set out in the report.
Cllr Allen did not part take in the discussion or vote on this item.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 12/02/2025
Decision:
RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND
(1) Recommended that Council consider and agree the action plan supporting each recommendation in the report.
(2) Recommended that Council agree the proposed revised committee timetable (Appendix 3)
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 12/02/2025
Decision:
Cabinet members reviewed and approved the Supported Housing Strategy and associated appendices.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 28/01/2025
Decision:
M Brookes confirmed that there were 2 items to come off of next month’s agenda.
The forward plan was noted
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 28/01/2025
Decision:
There were no referrals to Cabinet
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 28/01/2025
Decision:
There was no public participation.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 28/01/2025
Decision:
Cllr Allen declared he was a trustee of Community Action Dacorum.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 28/01/2025
Decision:
There were no apologies for absence
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 28/01/2025 - Cabinet
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 28/01/2025
Decision:
Cabinet Agreed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Perki Productions has provided specialised
consultancy support to Hemel Garden Communities and the Local Plan
teams over the last 24 months via a Direct Award with DBC.
Ceri Perkins of Perki Productions is self-employed and provides
specialist communications and engagement support related to
engagement activities for senior/chief officers and Members. Ceri
also has a wealth of experience supporting Garden Towns and
specialist knowledge to support the engagement process for
stewardship policies and strategies; these are required to support
the emerging Local Plans for Dacorum and St Albans which recognises
community stewardship as a priority.
Ceri will be involved in the drafting and consultation of the
emerging Stewardship and Placemaking Supplementary Planning
Document which will provide the policy guidance and delivery
processes for those bringing forward planning applications within
the HGC Growth Areas.
Decision Maker: Assistant Director - Place, Communities and Enterprise
Decision published: 04/02/2025
Effective from: 27/01/2025
Decision:
To approve a Framework Agreement with Bloom to
issue a Direct Award to Perki Productions
Lead officer: Vanessa Cooper
Background: The current contract for the
supply and maintenance of MFDs expired on 31 June 2024. Since then
the Council have been procuring MFD maintenance on an ad-hoc basis
each year. This has led to the expenditure becoming non-compliant
as the expenditure has not been aggregated and the CPSOs have not
been followed.
The Digital Service have confirmed that a significant amount of
work has been completed this year to build a digital transformation
programme that will shift customers off paper based manual
processes on to fully automated digital services. This work,
already concluded in parts of the Revenue Service, has shown that
we can significantly reduce the number of PDF forms printed
off.
We are currently building several new modules with planned go live
dates early next year which will automatically alert customers
through an online portal of any changes to their accounts. This
will result in a significant reduction in the numbers of letters
printed and sent out.
In the new year, once our customer portal goes live, we will be
designing a campaign to promote a paperless service with the
council which we anticipate will reduce the number of high-volume
printing such as annual billing (council tax) and rent &
leaseholder billing (Housing).
Reason: Extending to 2026 will enable us to assess our entire
Unified Comms estate and then go out to market with the whole of
our infrastructure contracts to ensure the best deal for
Dacorum.
Decision Maker: Strategic Director (People and Transformation)
Decision published: 29/01/2025
Effective from: 14/01/2025
Decision:
Extend current Ricoh MFD contract to April
2026
Lead officer: Gary Osler
This is for Customer Service Training which is
being delivered by MGI - this was requested as part of our
embedding of our Customer Promise across the organisation with
those front line staff who deliver a service to our
customers.
Decision Maker: Assistant Director - People
Decision published: 27/01/2025
Effective from: 27/01/2025
Decision:
Proceed with MGI to deliver the Customer
Service Training across our organisation.
Lead officer: Aidan Wilkie
The current contract for mobile phone
communications expired on 30 January 2023. Since then the Council
have been procuring mobile phones on an ad-hoc basis each year.
This has led to the expenditure becoming non-compliant as the
expenditure has not been aggregated and the CPSOs have not been
followed
Decision: Extend current contract to April 2026 to co-term with our
other communications contracts.
Reason: Extending to 2026 will enable us to assess our entire
Unified Comms estate and then go out to market with the whole of
our infrastructure contracts to ensure the best deal for
Dacorum.
Decision Maker: Strategic Director (People and Transformation)
Decision published: 24/01/2025
Effective from: 14/01/2025
Decision:
Decision: Extend current contract to April
2026 to co-term with our other communications contracts.
Lead officer: Gary Osler
The council has been using Unit4 as its
Finance system since 2004. Last year Unit4 publicly announced that
they were moving all customers to their SaaS (Cloud) solution. Any
on-premise solutions would no longer be supported.
Considering the high-risk implications of being unsupported by
Unit4 for a significant period whilst we move to an alternative
cloud solution, a decision has been made to move to Unit4 full SaaS
by December 2026. This requires the council to sign up to a
three-year contract by 31 December 2024.
Decision Maker: Strategic Director (People and Transformation)
Decision published: 24/01/2025
Effective from: 18/12/2024
Decision:
Move to Unit4 full SaaS by December 2026
Lead officer: Gary Osler