Issue - meetings

The Board considered the Improvement Plan Exception Report for March 2010 and discussed the following items in more detail:

Ø      Progress made in the Council’s move from a “fair” to an “excellent” Council.

Ø      The Budget Jury which would be reinstated this year.

Ø      Bromsgrove Way training – which had been suspended due to a revised approach being put forward.

Ø      Employee health and wellbeing programme

Ø      Planning and in particular Ref. 13.2.3 Receive and respond to RSS2 Proposed Changes and the delay that had taken place in publishing the changes.

The Board also discussed Ref. 1.5 the Railway Station and were informed that representatives from both Worcestershire County Council (WCC) and Network Rail had been invited to attend a recent Overview Board meeting, but had declined.  The Overview Board was making further investigations into this issue and Members of the Performance Management Board agreed that if the relevant representatives were to attend a future Overview Board meeting, they would welcome an invitation to attend that meeting.

RESOLVED:

(a)               that the revisions to the Improvement Plan Exception Report together with the corrective action being taken are noted; and

(b)               that it be noted that for the 85 actions highlighted for March within the plan 67.1% of the Improvement Plan was on target (green), 4.7% was one month behind (amber) and 3.5% was over one month behind (red).  24.7% of actions have been reprogrammed or suspended with approval.