Issue - meetings

The Board considered the Improvement Plan Exception report for August 2009.

The Assistant Chief Executive had requested that in his absence the Executive Director (Services) inform Members on the following points with regards to Appendix 1 of the report (page 47):

§               Area Action Plan

            1.1.1 Engage specialist organisation to complete unified vision - a      meeting in respect of this had taken place last week. 

§               Redevelopment of the Market Hall site

            1.3.3   Undertaken actions recommended in report - this had been                   agreed and will be moved forward. 

§               Community engagement

            1.4.5   Establish Leisure Centre study Group - the revised date for this            item was October and had been actioned.

§               Medium Term Financial Plan and Statutory accounts

            5.2.8   Deliver Use of resources action plan in relation to new    framework - Ms. J Pickering, Head of Financial Services was waiting       the detailed report from the Audit Commission (expected in      November 2009) to enable the Council to prepare a plan to meet their        recommendations and to make improvements to future judgements.

RESOLVED:

(a)       that the revisions to the Improvement Plan Exception report together    with the corrective action being taken be noted;

(b)       that it be noted that for the 71 actions highlighted for August within the             plan 84.5% of the Improvement Plan was on target (green) , 8.5% was       one month behind (amber) and no actions were over one month behind     (red).  7% of actions had been reprogrammed or suspended with        approval.