Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)            to note that the Chief Operating Officer would email requested information to Councillor Jackie Dunbar in regard to staff costs;

(ii)          to request that the Director of Customer Services investigate issues brought to attention by Councillor Delaney in regard to street lighting and to raise these with IT, and to circulate any feedback to members;

(iii)         to request that a comments section be added to the report for the next cycle in regard to Environmental Services;

(iv)         to request that officers confirm the HMO figures contained within the report;

(v)          to request that officers look at the one hour target in regard to the ASBIT team and to examine whether there was a more valuable way of reporting the information;

(vi)         to request that officers look at having five categories for the traffic light system and to separate out the indicator where no target is identified and one is not appropriate;

(vii)        to request that the Chief Officer – Integrated Children’s Services, email members to provide information on what the Council was doing to help mitigate problems some individuals had in regard to coping with a property after being homeless;

(viii)       to request that officers provide information to members on the equality target set out; and

(ix)         to otherwise note the performance of the 2017/18 Statutory Performance information contained in the report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer and the Director of Customer, which provided members with a summary of the key performance measures relating to the Operations Function.  Appended to the report were the performance summary dashboard, the performance analysis of exceptions and the 2017/18 statutory performance indicators.

Councillor Jackie Dunbar, seconded by Councillor Townson, moved as a procedural motion,:-

That information on agency staff including costs, be added back into the data analysis for future performance reports.

On a division, there voted:-

For the procedural motion (6) – Councillors Alphonse, Cooke, Delaney, Jackie Dunbar, Hutchison and Townson

Against the procedural motion (8) – the Convener, the Vice Conveners Councillors Bell and Grant, Lesley Dunbar, Houghton, Macdonald and Jennifer Stewart.

The Committee resolved:-

to reject the procedural motion.

The Committee further resolved:-

(i)            to note that the Chief Operating Officer would email requested information to Councillor Jackie Dunbar in regard to staff costs;

(ii)          to request that the Director of Customer Services investigate issues brought to attention by Councillor Delaney in regard to street lighting and to raise these with IT, and to circulate any feedback to members;

(iii)         to request that a comments section be added to the report for the next cycle in regard to Environmental Services;

(iv)         to request that officers confirm the HMO figures contained within the report;

(v)          to request that officers look at the one hour target in regard to the ASBIT team and to examine whether there was a more valuable way of reporting the information;

(vi)         to request that officers look at having five categories for the traffic light system and to separate out the indicator where no target is identified and one is not appropriate;

(vii)        to request that the Chief Officer – Integrated Children’s and Family Services, email members to provide information on what the Council was doing to help mitigate problems some individuals had in regard to coping with a property after being homeless;

(viii)       to request that officers provide information to members on the equality target set out; and

(ix)         to otherwise note the performance of the 2017/18 Statutory Performance information contained in the report.