Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Finance & Transformation / Section 151 Officer

The Committee received the report as set out on pages 7-33 of the agenda, which asked it to note the performance of the Council against its Corporate Objectives.

The Director of Finance & Transformation / Section 151 Officer provided the Committee with a summary of the report, which showed that at the end of the first quarter of the 2018/19 financial year, of the 94 performance measures reported, 77 were green, 13 were amber and 4 were red status.

Members welcomed the report as a means of seeing how the Council was performing against the Objectives agreed in May 2018, and also being able to clearly identify any areas of under-performance which required improvement.

A Member of the Committee expressed surprise that in respect of the Green and Safe Places (GSP) target number 7, the Council was only targeting the achievement of In Bloom ‘award winner’ status within the Borough, as opposed to setting the bar higher and aiming for a Gold award. The Director of Finance & Transformation confirmed that during the first year of measurement, a benchmark for a number of performance measures would be realised, from which future targets would evolve.

It was requested by Members that reporting mechanisms be put in place in time for the next meeting of the Committee, to assess the direction of travel in Quarter 2 compared to the performance achieved in Quarter 1.

It was moved by the Chair, seconded by the Vice-Chair and

UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED THAT:

The performance of the Council against its Corporate Objectives be noted.