Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 29 March 2010 be confirmed and signed as an accurate record of the proceedings, and that the outstanding actions be noted.

Apologies for Absence were received from Councillor Sarah Gore.

If a Councillor has any prejudicial or personal interest in a particular report he/she should declare the existence and nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of the item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a prejudicial interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken, unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

Where members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance, then the Councillor with a prejudicial interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration, unless the disability has been removed by the Standards Committee.

There were no declarations of interest.

1.            That the changes to the capital programme as set out in appendix 1 be approved.

2.            That a revenue virement totalling £501,000 as set out in Appendix 2 be approved.

1.      That Notting Hill Housing Group acquires the head lease of 248 Hammersmith Grove (see site plan in Appendix 1) from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, subject to final terms being agreed between the Council and Notting Hill Housing Group (NHHG).

2.      That the Assistant Director (Legal and Democratic Services), in conjunction with the Director of Community Services, the Director of Finance and Corporate Services and the Head of Asset Management and Portfolio Management agree the Heads of Terms for the sale of the head lease specified in the report.

3.      That the Council assists NHHG with their site assembly by purchasing any long non–resident investment sub-leasehold interest not already acquired by them, and to the Council making and implementing one or more compulsory purchase orders where a negotiated sale by the non–resident investment sub-leaseholders would (in the opinion of officers) be unlikely to succeed or unlikely to complete within NHHG’s timescale for commencement of its development be agreed. Such assistance to be subject to NHHG financing the purchase price and bearing all costs (including compensation, disturbance payments, loss payments, taxes, legal and surveyors’ costs and any rehousing costs) and indemnifying the Council against them all, and following such acquisition to transfer or surrender to NHHG all interests so acquired for no further consideration (other than any costs associated with such transfer or  surrender).

1.      That the transfer of the management of Fulham Palace to an arms-length charitable trust be agreed.

2.      That the grant funding agreement between the Council and the Fulham Palace Trust, as outlined in Section 6 of the report, be agreed.

3.      That the Council makes a financial commitment to enable the Trust to be established on a secure financial footing be agreed.

4.      That the delegation of annual service and business plans to the Director of Resident Services be approved.

5.      That a rationalised lease structure and a rent of £1 per annum payable to the Council by the Fulham Palace Trust be agreed.

1.      That the establishment of a new business continuity service which would permit the Council to bring up critical services in one or other of the two Council data centres in the event of an emergency, thereby increasing the Council’s Information Technology service resilience in the event of a disaster; and to approve the upgrade of end of life IT equipment in Hammersmith Town Hall and the refurbishment of an ageing computer room at a cost of £998,970 over five years be approved.

2.      That funding of a total of £998,970 of which:

·        £52,000 is to be funded from corporate planned maintenance; and

·        £946,970 will come from the balance of £981,000 remaining from the £8m Strategic Programmes fund, which includes the overall annual maintenance for three years and an estimated £36,002 p.a. (years 4 and 5 only) maintenance be approved.

3.     That in addition, the annual testing and support costs of £120,000 p.a. will be funded from the current H&F Bridge Partnership contract price be noted.

A revised version outlining some amendments to the report was tabled at the meeting.

1.   That  the Council’s Carbon Management Plan, attached as the appendix to the report, be noted.

2.   That the establishment of a ring-fenced Carbon Management Fund on the basis that there is a successful application to Salix Finance for match funding and where there is a business case be approved.

3.   That an annual carbon management report detailing progress against the carbon reduction target be submitted to Cabinet.

1.      That feasibility design and consultation on the corridors and neighbourhoods programme at a total cost of £200,000 (approx 10% of programme total), as set out in paragraphs 3.3 and 4.3 of the report, be approved.

2.      That authority be delegated to the Director of Environment, in consultation with the Deputy Leader (+ Environment), to approve implementation of the twelve individual corridors and neighbourhoods schemes, subject to a positive response to the consultations.

1.           The report and business case attached as Appendix A, on the exempt part of the report, be noted and option 3a outlined in section 3.4 be agreed as the way forward for the next 12 months.

2.           That the projected growth in customers required, timescales and subsequent impact on budgets for 2010/11 and 2011/12, as outlined in section 5 of the report, be noted.

3.           That expenditure of up to £100,000 for an enhancement to the IT system- Waste Manager - on an invest to save basis, in order to implement the preferred option 3a be agreed in principle.

That approval is given to commit the two available grants for the purposes highlighted in the report. The grants total £514,000 and the proposed commitments, detailed in section 5 of the report, be noted.

The Forward Plan was noted.

The summary was noted.

The Cabinet is invited to resolve, under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following items of business, on the grounds that they contain the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in paragraph 3of Schedule 12A of the said Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption currently outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

RESOLVED:

That under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the remaining items of business on the grounds that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of a person (including the authority)] as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption currently outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

[The following is a public summary of the exempt information under S.100C (2) of the Local Government Act 1972.  Exempt minutes exist as a separate document.]

That the report be noted.

That the report be noted.

That the report be noted.

That the report be noted.

The summary was noted.