Issue - meetings
Additional street cleansing savings
Meeting: 18/07/2011 - Executive (Item 10)
10 Additional street cleansing savings PDF 143 KB
The 2011-12 budget making process made some explicit decisions about reduction in service levels in street cleaning. There were also further savings built into the budget which required negotiation with Veolia as to how they could be achieved. This report recommends the approval of further variations in the council’s waste services contract in order to meet agreed budget reductions.
Additional documents:
- PINK street-cleansing-savings v4 0 PINK app1-3 , View reasons restricted (10/2)
Decision:
(i) that the requirement to achieve further reductions in the cost of the Council’s Waste Services Contract and the progress of negotiations relating to those reductions set out in paragraphs 3.3 to 3.7 of the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services be noted;
(ii) that agreement be given the package of changes to street cleaning services set out in paragraph 3.10 of the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services;
(iii) that the intention to seek further cost reductions from the waste services contractor in relation to the agreed changes be noted and authority delegated to the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services and the Director of Finance and Corporate Services to conclude those negotiations.
Minutes:
The 2011-12 budget making process made some explicit decisions about reduction in service levels in street cleaning. There were also further savings built into the budget which required negotiation with Veolia as to how they could be achieved. The report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services recommended the approval of further variations in the council’s waste services contract in order to meet agreed budget reductions and Councillor J Moher (Lead Member, Highways and Transportation) referred members to the specific changes proposed in the report.
The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following categories of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972:
· Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
· Information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings.
RESOLVED:-
(i) that the requirement to achieve further reductions in the cost of the Council’s Waste Services Contract and the progress of negotiations relating to those reductions set out in paragraphs 3.3 to 3.7 of the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services be noted;
(ii) that agreement be given the package of changes to street cleaning services set out in paragraph 3.10 of the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services;
(iii) that the intention to seek further cost reductions from the waste services contractor in relation to the agreed changes be noted and authority delegated to the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services and the Director of Finance and Corporate Services to conclude those negotiations.