Council and councillors

Report No. 193/2017 from the Chief Executive was received.

The Portfolio Holder, Mr Mathias, introduced the report, the purpose of which was to provide Cabinet with strategic oversight of the Council’s performance for the second quarter of 2017/18 in delivering the Council’s Corporate Plan Aims and Objectives; as Members were accountable for the delivery of the Council’s Corporate Plan and this monitoring information reported on progress and highlighted any key challenges.

Mr Mathias confirmed that Councillor Gale Waller had raised several questions regarding this report and the Quarter 2 Finance Report and that answers to these questions would be appended to the minutes.

During discussion the following points were raised:

i.      The Performance Report was still scheduled to be considered by two further Scrutiny Panels; Children and Young People on 23 November 2017 and Adults and Health on 30 November 2017.

DECISION

1.    Cabinet NOTED the overall position in relation to performance for the second quarter of 2017/18 and the actions being taken to address areas of underperformance.

Reasons for decision

1.    At the end of Quarter 2, 91% of indicators measured were on or above target.  9% of indicators were below target and main areas of concern had been highlighted in the report and the remedial action being undertaken to improve performance had been identified.

2.    Overall performance based on activity in the second quarter of 2017/18 was satisfactory.