Policy And Resources Committee - 15/04/2002

At a MEETING of the POLICY AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 15th April 2002.

Present:-

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Julia STURROCK, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 15th April, 2002 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I BEST VALUE SUB-COMMITTEE

The minute of meeting of the Best Value Sub-Committee of 26 February 2002, a copy of which is appended hereto, was submitted for information and record purposes.

II SELECT LIST OF CONTRACTORS

There was submitted Report No 252-2002 by the City Architectural Services Officer regarding the updating of the Select List of Contractors 1997-2001 which should have been reviewed and updated in 2001 but which was deferred for one year to consider the possibility of adopting Constructionline.

The Committee agreed:-

(1)that the existing in-house Select List of Contractors be continued, in its present form with normal financial updates as required, for a further two years;

(2)that Constructionline be adopted as a secondary Select List to run in parallel with the in-house list and that the names of all contractors on the in-house Select List of Contractors be given to Constructionline to enable them to be contacted with a view to taking out membership of Constructionline; and

(3)that Constructionline be informed that their system would not be fully adopted by Dundee City Council until it had been fully monitored and reviewed over the next two years.

III THE DEVELOPING CONTEXT FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES AS PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANISATIONS

There was submitted Report No 266-2002 by the Director of Corporate Planning advising the Council of the developing context for public health improvement work in Scotland and the role of Dundee City Council in partnership with NHS Tayside.

The Committee:-

(1)remitted to the Director of Corporate Planning to bring forward a Health Development Report stating service departments' plans and proposals to promote public health;

(2)noted the recommendations and implications of COSLA's paper on the role of Local Authorities as public health organisations;

(3)endorsed the establishment of an internal cross service group that takes the lead in developing corporate public health improvement programmes; and

(4)noted the priorities for the Council's Public Health Improvement Officer.

IV CHANGING CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND

There was submitted Report No 290-2002 by the Director of Social Work and the Director of Education informing members of the proposals submitted to the Scottish Executive in relation to the Changing Children's Services Fund.

The Committee noted:-

(1)the content of this report and, in particular, Appendix 1 which outlined details of the proposals from Dundee City Council and partner agencies; and

(2)that these proposals had been submitted to the Scottish Executive along with a working version of Dundee's Children's Services Plan 2002-2004.

V MEMBERSHIP OF LICENSING BOARD/LICENCING COMMITTEE/PERSONNEL APPEALS SUB-COMMITTEE

There was submitted Report No 243-2002 by the Director of Support Services regarding possible changes to arrangements for meetings of the Licensing Committee and Personnel Appeals Sub‑Committee.

The Committee agreed:-

(1)that the arrangements outline in paragraphs 8.1 and 9.1 of the report be adopted; and

(2)that it be remitted to the Director of Support Services to take the steps necessary to implement the changed arrangements.

The Committee resolved, under Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the undernoted item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 6 and 9 of Part I of Schedule 7(A) of the Act.

VI RESEARCH ON ADDRESSING THE "MISMATCH" EFFECT

There was submitted agenda note AN1-2002 intimating that for information and recorded purposes that in view of the timescales involved the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Convener and Spokespersons from the Major Opposition Group and the Minority Opposition Group, had commissioned a research paper on the effect of the "mismatch".

The Committee noted accordingly.

JULIA STURROCK, Convener.

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