Agenda and minutes

That the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on11th November 2013 be confirmed and signed as an accurate record of the proceedings, and that the outstanding actions be noted.

An apology for absence was submitted by Councillor Marcus Ginn.

If a Councillor has a disclosable pecuniary interest in a particular item, whether or not it is entered in the Authority’s register of interests, or any other significant interest which they consider should be declared in the public interest, they should declare the existence and, unless it is a sensitive interest as defined in the Member Code of Conduct, the nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of that 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 disclosable pecuniary interest or other significant 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.

Where Members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance and speak, then the Councillor with a disclosable pecuniary interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration. Councillors who have declared other significant interests should also withdraw from the meeting if they consider their continued participation in the matter would not be reasonable in the circumstances and may give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest.

Councillors are not obliged to withdraw from the meeting where a dispensation to that effect has been obtained from the Audit, Pensions and Standards Committee. 

There were no declarations of interest.

That the budget virements of £0.718m for the General Fund, be approved.

1.1.           That the budget virements as at quarter 2 for 2013/14 as set out in this report, be approved,

1.2.           That the VAT Policy in outlined section 7 of the report required to manage the Council’s Partial Exemption position, be approved.

That the Executive Response to the recommendations made by the Pupil Premium Scrutiny Task Group, as shown in Appendix A attached to the report, be approved.

1.                  That Hammersmith and Fulham Bridge Partnership (HFBP) enter into a contract with the third party supplier, Corelogic, commencing March 2014 for the provision of Frameworki Electronic Social Care Case Management and Finance System, and that this contract co-terminate with Tri-borough Adult Social Care’s arrangement for the same in January 2017 (the contract has a clause enabling annual extensions).

2.                 That one-off costs of up to £107,616 to complete the procurement and implementation be approved.

3.                 That approval be given to a contribution of up to £107,616 from the Efficiency Projects reserve (Invest to Save) towards the year one, one-off project costs, with all other one off and on-going costs being met from within existing budgets.

4.                 That approval be given for work to define the future support model to proceed in parallel with this IT project.

5.                 Noted that the Children’s IT Support consolidation project is likely to deliver further savings but the level is currently unknown and not reported here.

1.                  That the tendering requirements of the Procurement Code be waived in order to award the contracts as set out in Appendix A of the report..

2.                  That the award of contracts as set out in Appendix A of the report on local authority terms and conditions from 1 April 2014, to expire on 31 March 2016, be approved.

3.                  That if the current suppliers refuse to accept these terms, to extend the contracts on current terms and conditions and give a higher priority to the re-procurement of these services.

4.                  That the tendering requirements of the Procurement Code be waived in order to award the contracts as set out in Appendix B of the report.

5.                  That the award of the contracts as set out in Appendix B of the report from 6 January 2014, to expire on 31 March 2016, be approved.

6.                  That approval be given to the mapping and reshaping of these services based on Council priorities and enable the development of the marketplace to improve competition for providing these services, as defined in the procurement timeline.

7.                  That the recommendations for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council be noted.

1.                    That the allocation of £622,000 for the delivery of the Transformation and Efficiency portfolio work programme and the release of resources from balances to fund this ( £487,000 to be released from existing ASC balances and reserves, with only £135,000 needed from the Corporate Efficiency Project reserve) be approved.

2.                    That the initial spend of £243,000 to deliver the first phase of work which includes developing the necessary business cases for the programmes set out in the ASC Portfolio work programme, be approved.

3.                    That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Community Care to approve the release of funds to implement plans once Business Cases for each piece of work have been approved.

4.                    Noted that regular updates will be submitted on progress.

Officers circulated amended recommendations and changes to paragraphs 4.2 and 4.4 of the report. It was noted that the new paragraphs should read:

4.2             The lease currently prevents the use of the property except as a Public House.  However, the use of the property as a public house has resulted in significant anti-social behaviour in the locality prior to the acquisition of the leasehold interest by the current lessee; and moreover the Metropolitan Police did not support the continued use of the premises as a Public House.  The Licence for the sale of alcohol was withdrawn in 2011.

4.4      However, having considered the options available the Council believes that trying to enforce the current conditions in the lease for the continued use of the premises as a Public House would be counter-productive; bearing in mind the previous problems surrounding this use.

RESOLVED:

1.1       That approval be given to the disposal of the Council’s interest in 95 Bloemfontein Road to the incumbent lessee subject to the Council  ensuring that a satisfactory scheme of redevelopment has been satisfactorily completed.

1.2       That authority to negotiate and complete the detailed terms of the transaction be delegated to the Executive Director of Finance and Corporate Governance, the Director of Law, the Executive Director of Housing and Regeneration and the Director of Building & Property Management, providing that the terms achieved represent Best Consideration in compliance with s 123 Local Government Act 1972.

1.3       That if the head of terms are not agreed with a 12 month period, then the Council may withdraw the offer to negotiate.

The Forward Plan 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.

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 minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 11th November 2013 be confirmed and signed as an accurate record of the proceedings, and that the outstanding actions be noted.

That the recommendation in the report, be approved.

That the report be noted.