Agenda and minutes

Cabinet Member - Corporate Services (meeting) - Wednesday 9th December, 2009 10.00 am

Venue: Town Hall, Bootle (video conferenced Town Hall, Southport)

Contact: Mike Morris 

Items
No. Item

69.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

No apologies for absence were received.

70.

Declarations of Interest

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

No declarations of interest were received.

 

 

71.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 57 KB

Minutes of the meeting held on 11 November 2009

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

That the Minutes of the meeting held on 11 November 2009 be confirmed as a correct record.

72.

Legal and Administrative Services Department-Corporate Services Portfolio Monitoring 2009/10-Quarter 2 pdf icon PDF 70 KB

Report of the Legal Director

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Legal Director on the performance in relation to the Legal and Administrative Services Department’s element of the Corporate Services Portfolio’s 2009/10 Departmental Services Plan, with particular reference to Quarter 2 of 2009/10.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the report be noted.

73.

Registration Service-Service Delivery Inspection-Action Plan pdf icon PDF 68 KB

Report of the Legal Director

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Further to Minute No. 65 of 11 November 2009, the Cabinet Member considered the report of the Legal Director setting out a proposed Action Plan in response to the recent Service Delivery Inspection of the Council’s Registration Service by the General Register Office.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the report and the proposed Action Plan be noted.

74.

Consultation on Discussion Paper on the Making and Enforcement of Byelaws-Government's Response pdf icon PDF 68 KB

Report of the Legal Director

Minutes:

Further to Minute No. 48 of 12 November 2008, the Cabinet Member considered the report of the Legal Director on the recent publication of the Government’s response to comments received to the above Paper on proposals for local authorities to be empowered to make certain byelaws without the need for scrutiny by Secretary of State and for a new enforcement regime for byelaws.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the report and the Government’s response be noted.

75.

Personnel Department - Corporate Services Portfolio Monitoring 2009/10 - Quarter 2 pdf icon PDF 214 KB

Report of the Personnel Director

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Personnel Director on the performance in relation to the Personnel Department’s element of the Corporate Services Portfolio’s 2009/10 Departmental Service Plan, with particular reference to Quarter 2 of 2009/10.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the report be noted.

76.

Insurance Broker Contract pdf icon PDF 77 KB

Report of the Senior Assistant Finance and Information Services Director

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Finance and Information Services Director setting out details of expressions of interest received from nine companies who wished to be formally invited to tender for the provision of insurance broking services.  The current Insurance Broker Contract would expire on 31 March 2010 and a contractor needed to be appointed for 1 April 2010 to ensure that the Council’s insurance portfolio was successfully renewed by 29 September 2010, when the current policies would expire.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

(1)       all of the organisations meeting the criteria laid down in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire be invited to tender for the provision of insurance broking services to the Council with effect from 1 April 2010; and

 

(2)       it be noted that the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Performance and Corporate Services) had given his consent under Rule 17 of the Scrutiny Procedure Rules for the decision in (1) above to be treated as urgent and not subject to “call in” on the basis that the work is of a specialist nature and any delay in inviting tenders would not be in the best interests of the Council.

77.

Business Partnership Agreements - Grants to Voluntary Organisations pdf icon PDF 97 KB

Report of the Planning and Economic Regeneration Director

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Planning and Economic Regeneration Director indicating that six Business Partnership Agreements funded from the Grants to Voluntary Organisations budget, currently involving £120,395, were due to expire at the end of March 2010.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

(1)       Organisations that have current Business Partnership Agreements be requested to reapply within the 2010/2011 financial year, with the exception of Sefton Play Council: and                                                               

 

(2)       the reduction of the amount for the Sefton Play Council on a sliding scale of £60,000 for 2010/11, £40,000 for 2011/12, £20,000 for 2012/13, and £10,000 for 2013/14 be approved.

78.

Exclusion of Press and Public

To consider passing the following resolution:

 

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the Press and Public.

 

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it may involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test had been applied and favoured exclusion of the information from the press and public.

79.

Pericles Revenues and Benefits System Replacement

Report of the Finance and Information Services Director

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Finance and Information Services Director on the outcome of a procurement exercise to replace the Pericles Revenue and Benefits system and seeking approval for a preferred supplier.

 

This was a key decision and was currently included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

(1)       the report be noted;

 

(2)       the selection of Northgate Information Solutions as the preferred supplier, be approved;

 

(3)       the fact that the contract for the new Revenues and Benefits system will be between Arvato Government System (Sefton) Ltd. and Northgate Information Solutions be noted; and

 

(4)       the fact that detailed costings will be submitted to the Cabinet Member meeting in January, 2010, be noted.