Council and councillors

Repoprt No: 149/2020

Cabinet noted the overall position in relation to performance so far during 2020/21 and the actions being taken to address areas of underperformance.

The Leader elaborated on the report and explained that the Council developed a new Corporate Plan in 19/20. The Corporate Plan was due to be refreshed for 20/21 however this work was deferred as the pandemic started and became the Council’s key priority. It was noted that the intention was for the Corporate Plan to be refreshed in Quarter 4 following work on the Council’s vision. Alongside a refresh of the Corporate Plan, the Council was reviewing its corporate and service performance framework. One of the short term priorities would be to revisit corporate priorities and define a revised set of performance measures that would indicate whether objectives were being achieved.

Councillor Walters commented that the Council should be proud of the position they were currently in and questioned whether some of the targets set were unrealistic.

Councillor Wilby commented that sometime data did not always indicate the hard work going on behind the scenes and expressed his pride and gratitude to the Children’s Services Team.

Councillor G Brown referred to the affordable home target and noted that subject to planning approval, the total application for affordable homes delivered over next 3 years’ subject to market conditions would be close to the set target.

Councillor Stephenson stated that officers had, where possible, delivered business as usual as well as working through pandemic, and reported that Rutland had a very encouraging future. She requested that as a resident of Rutland, the Chief Executive pass on her thanks to every officer in the organisation.

The Leader stated that the Council were currently doing well in performance and noted that they would not be complacent in recognising that there were areas for improvement.

RESOLVED:

That the overall position in relation to performance so far during 2020/21 and the actions being taken to address areas of underperformance be noted.