Issue - meetings

Recommendation

·       To consider and agree the final service plans, 2025-2028

Councillor Giles-Medhurst proposed the recommendations in the report and seconded by Councillor Nelmes.

Councillor Giles-Medhurst introduced the item and explained that the draft plans had been examined in detail by each relevant service committee before being reviewed by Policy and Resources Committee. They set out how every service area would deliver priorities in the Council’s Corporate Framework including key performance indicators, service volumes and links to strategic and operational objectives. The Leader noted that the plans were presented in a new, clearer format to show the relationship between corporate priorities, environmental targets and individual service commitments. They would be published on the Council’s website alongside quarterly performance data once adopted.

Councillor Cooper proposed amendments which were ruled out by the monitoring officer as non-compliant with the constitution. Upon discussion members agreed that the proposals made by Councillor Cooper that had been ruled out would instead first go to the relevant service committees, where officers could advise and then to Policy and Resources. Councillor Cooper accepted the clarification.

Members queried funding opportunities through the National Lottery and asked that any successful bids be reported back to Members. Some members queried the realism of certain performance targets, particularly the planning – appeal success rate and housing delivery numbers and raised concerns whether the targets represented statutory minimal or genuine aspirations of the administrations.

On being put to the Council the substantive motion was declared CARRIED by the Chair of the Council, the vote being 22 For, 0 Against and 11 Abstentions.

RESOLVED:

·         To consider and agree the final service plans 2025-2028.