Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 17 June 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 Councillors Nicholas Botterill and Mark Loveday.

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.

Councillor Joe Carlbach declared a personal and prejudicial interest in respect of the item concerning the 3^rd Sector Investment Fund Allocation by virtue of his position as a Trustee of one of the applicants for funding, the Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre. As a consequence he withdrew from the meeting during consideration of the matter.

The Cabinet gave consideration to the allocation of the 3rd Sector Investment Fund from October 2010 in respect of the following service areas;

• Infrastructure
• Children, Families and Young People
• Economic Wellbeing and Opportunity
• Health and Wellbeing (older people)

It was noted that the 3^rd Sector played a significant role in achieving the Council’s borough of opportunity vision and aspirations, added value to the cultural, social and economic quality of life, helped to shape social and economic regeneration and contributed to civic renewal. Nevertheless, in the current economic climate the Investment Fund would have to deliver efficiencies in the same way as all other Council budgets. To this end it was considered prudent to reflect the anticipated reductions in local government funding in the allocations to the 3^rd sector over the following three years. Funded organisations would, like the Council itself, be expected to seek different ways of working and develop more effective systems that would enable efficiencies to be achieved with minimal impact on front line services. The assessment process had applied the same set of requirements and procedures to all applicants and each bid had undergone at least three independent assessments.

With the permission of the Chairman, deputations from the following Third Sector organisations were permitted to address the Cabinet for 5 minutes each, having submitted deputation requests:

• Trustee Shepherds Bush Families Project
• Iranian Association
• Grove Neighbourhood Centre
• Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
• Threshold Housing Advice
• Hammersmith & Fulham Refugee Forum

RESOLVED:

1.   That allocation of the 3^rd Sector Investment Fund across the areas of:

·                    Infrastructure

·                    Children, Families & Young People

·                    Economic Wellbeing & Opportunity

·                    Health & Wellbeing (older people)

     as set out in this report be approved.

2.  That, where there is a lack of fundable applications to deliver particular outcomes sought, authority be delegated to the appropriate departmental Director to retender or reallocate the remainder of the budget.

1.   That progress of the programme to date be noted.

2.   That Stage C, the corporate rollout of SmartWorking, at a total cost of £2,120,846, be approved.

3.   That the draw down an initial sum of £1,454,512 from the Invest to Save fund, specifically to pay for two key projects within the programme, namely Barclay House and Environment, as well as the required IT and telephony for Stage C, be approved.

4.   That a report be submitted to Cabinet after the delivery of the Barclay House and Environment projects detailing progress made and outcomes achieved, and requesting a draw down of £666,334 for the remaining rollout of Stage C.

5.   That it is noted that funding required for the removal costs associated with Stage C is requested when needed during the course of the programme.

6.   That settlement of the dilapidations claim relating to the termination of the Barclay House lease be delegated to the Director of Environment and Director of Finance and Corporate Services.

That approval be given to expenditure of up to £350K to meet additional costs for the preparation of a Supplementary Planning Document (to be carried out jointly with the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the GLA), as set out in para. 3.2 of the report, the costs to be met:

·       either by Capital & Counties plc as part of a planning performance agreement;

·       or, if funding from Capital & Counties is not confirmed, the Council’s share of the additional costs (up to £175K) to be met from the S106 Agreement specified in the report.

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.]

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 17 June 2010 be confirmed and signed as an accurate record of the proceedings, and that the outstanding actions be noted.

The summary was noted.