Issue - meetings

to note the amended Strategic Business Plan subject to:-

(a)          the Interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure providing a response in terms of the number of affordable houses built annually, in connection with the objective ‘We will build new council houses and work with partners to provide more affordable homes’ on page 72 of the report;

(b)          the Interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure providing a response in terms of how success would be measured in connection with the objective ‘We will expand the provision of school holiday meals to primary school children’ on page 78 of the report; and

(c)          the Director of Education and Children’s Services amending how success would be measured in connection with the objective ‘We will explore how the approaches of the Sistema project can be shared and spread across the city’ to make it city-wide rather than specific to Torry.

With reference to Article 15 of the minute of its meeting of 23 August 2017, the Council had before it a report by the Chief Executive which advised of revisions to the Council’s Strategic Business Plan to reflect commitments and priorities set out within the Policy Statement “Stronger Together: Prosperity for Aberdeen 2017 - 2022”.

The report recommended:-

that the Council note the amended Strategic Business Plan.

The Council resolved:-

to note the amended Strategic Business Plan subject to:-

(i)            the Interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure providing a response in terms of the number of affordable houses built annually, in connection with the objective ‘We will build new council houses and work with partners to provide more affordable homes’ on page 72 of the report;

(ii)          the Interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure providing a response in terms of how success would be measured in connection with the objective ‘We will expand the provision of school holiday meals to primary school children’ on page 78 of the report; and

(iii)         the Director of Education and Children’s Services amending how success would be measured in connection with the objective ‘We will explore how the approaches of the Sistema project can be shared and spread across the city’ to make it city-wide rather than specific to Torry.