Issue - meetings

To present the deliverables and measurable outcomes for the Cabinet’s agreed Priorities and Projects 2019/20, as well as reporting the current position as at Quarter Two (July – September 2019).

RESOLVED that –

(a)       the deliverable and measurable outcomes that have been developed for the Priorities and Projects and incorporated into the Council’s Performance Report(s), be approved; and

(b)       the current position for each performance measure as at Quarter Two (July – September 2019) be noted.

The Cabinet gave consideration to a report of the Corporate Finance and Governance Portfolio Holder (A.6) which presented it with the deliverables and measurable outcomes for the Cabinet’s agreed Priorities and Projects 2019/20, as well as reporting the current position as at Quarter Two (July – September 2019).

Members recalled that the Performance Reports (Resources & Services and Community Leadership) set out the detailed actions and targets for the delivery of the Council’s priorities throughout the year by including both the Council’s emerging Corporate Plan 2020/24 and Priorities and Projects for 2019/20.

Cabinet was aware that, at its meeting held on 19 July 2019, it had approved the Priorities and Projects for 2019/20. It had also been agreed that the next phase of this work would be to develop specific deliverables (for the priorities and projects) in consultation with the relevant Portfolio Holders and that those would be incorporated into the Performance Report(s) in line with the Quarter Two timetable and presented to Cabinet, so Cabinet could endorse those deliverables before they were subject to wider scrutiny.

It was reported that Officers, now the drafting process had been completed, had submitted the Performance Reporting Template(s), including the deliverables and measurable outcomes, to Cabinet for its formal approval and adoption, as well as reporting the current position as at Quarter Two (July – September 2019).

In respect of the Quarter 2 position (as reported in the Resources and Services Performance Report) Members were informed that of the 22 indicators and projects where performance was measured, 19 (86%) were on, or above, their expected target, 1 indicator (5%) was not currently in line with expected performance and for 2 indicators (9%) there was currently no data available. The indicators and projects highlighted in the Community Leadership Performance Report were deemed ‘non measurable’ as the Council’s role was that of ‘influence’ only.

Cabinet was advised that the respective reports were due to be presented to the Resources and Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 28 November 2019 and to the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 2 December 2019.

Transforming Tendring Project

Cabinet also received an update within the Portfolio Holder’s report on the current progress of the transformation project in Clacton-on-Sea which touched on the following areas:-

(1)       Pier Avenue Offices;

(2)       Barnes House Link;

(3)       Northbourne Depot;

(4)       IT and Channel Shift;

(5)       Westleigh House demolition;

(6)       Town Hall Phase 1 structural works; and

(7)       Scanning and Digitalisation.

Having considered all of the information provided in the report and its appendices:-

It was moved by Councillor G V Guglielmi, seconded by Councillor McWilliams and:-

RESOLVED that –

(a)       the deliverable and measurable outcomes that have been developed for the Priorities and Projects and incorporated into the Council’s Performance Report(s), be approved; and

(b)       the current position for each performance measure as at Quarter Two (July – September 2019) be noted.