Council and councillors

Report No. 148/2018 for the Cabinet was received, the purpose of which was to consider the recommendations of Cabinet referred to Council for determination and report the Key Decisions made by Cabinet since the publication of the agenda for the previous meeting of the Council on 9 July 2018.

1)    Council NOTED the Key Decisions made since the publication of the agenda for the previous ordinary meeting of the Council on 9 July 2018, as detailed in Appendix A and B to report 148/2018.

2)    31 July 2018

Decision No. 170

Report No. 133/2018

ANNUAL REPORT

Mr Hemsley moved the recommendations in the report.  Mrs Stephenson seconded the recommendations.

During debate of the recommendations points raised included:

i.      The Leader, Mr Hemsley, noted feedback from Miss Waller regarding the use of jargon and abbreviations and would consider these comments in the next iteration of the report;

ii.    Mr Conde highlighted the statistics regarding the number of delayed days’ transfer of care and noted that this may become more challenging should the Sustainability and Transformation Plans seek to close community hospitals.  Mr Walters, Portfolio Holder for Safeguarding Adults, was not aware of any plans to close community hospitals in Rutland and confirmed that preserving services to local residents was a priority, whilst noting that many of the transfers would not actually be Rutland residents as patients were discharged to the nearest available bed;

iii.   Mr Conde also highlighted that the Council had not achieved its affordable homes target.  Mr Brown, Portfolio Holder for Planning Policy and Operations, confirmed that this was due to problems experienced due to a delayed project.  The Council were on target to build 60 affordable homes this year which would catch up on last year’s shortfall;

iv.   Mr Oxley asked for further information regarding dissemination  and recommendation Facebook as a good vehicle for sharing this document;

v.    The Chief Executive confirmed that it was not possible to send out this information with Council Tax demands to statutory restrictions; and

vi.   Mr Baines felt that the comments regarding a gender gap in relation to G.C.S.E results was misleading.  Mr Wilby, Portfolio Holder for Lifelong Learning, confirmed these comments would be taken on board.

RESOLVED

To APPROVE the recommendation from cabinet to approve the Annual Report (Appendix C of Report No. 148/2018)