Policy And Resources Committee - 19/04/2004

At a MEETING of the POLICY AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 19th April, 2004.

 

Present:-

 

Lord Provost John R LETFORD

 

 

 

BAILIES

 

Helen WRIGHT

Neil I C POWRIE

Bruce D MACKIE

John CORRIGAN

 

Ian BORTHWICK

 

COUNCILLORS

 

Jill SHIMI

Fraser MACPHERSON

Christina ROBERTS

Kevin KEENAN

Helen DICK

Jim BARRIE

George REGAN

Nigel DON

Will DAWSON

Julia M STURROCK

Bob DUNCAN

Elizabeth F FORDYCE

Fiona M GRANT

Richard BEATTIE

Roderick A J WALLACE

Christopher HIND

Andrew DAWSON

Charles A WEBSTER

Joe MORROW

Willie W SAWERS

Derek J SCOTT

 

Joe FITZPATRICK

 

 

Councillor SHIMI, Convener, in the Chair.

 

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 15th March 2004 was held as read.

 

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

 

I REVIEW OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES PLAN 2002-2004

 

There was submitted Report No 146-2004 by the Director of Social Work regarding the 2003 Review of the Children's Services Plan 2002-2004. The Review provided information on how well objectives were being met by giving details of the progress made in implementing the actions outlined in the Plan and outlined any new objectives or service developments planned to take place between now and the year 2005.

 

The Committee approved the content of the Children's Services Plan Review 2003.

 

II PURCHASE OF SURVEY DESIGN AND ANALYSIS PACKAGE

 

There was submitted Report No 185-2004 by the Assistant Chief Executive (Community Planning) and Head of Information Technology regarding the purchase of a computer package to assist all departments with the design and analysis of customer and service user surveys.

 

The Committee approved the purchase of the SPSS Dimensions package as a corporate resource available for use by all departments at a cost, including installation and training of 38,355 together with an annual cost of approximately 5,654.

 

III SOFTWARE PURCHASE DATA MATCHING AND DATA CLEANSING

 

There was submitted Report No 276-2004 by the Head of Information Technology seeking approval for the purchase of software to enable the setting up of a Master Address Data Base in line with the Corporate ICT Strategy.

 

The Committee approved the purchase of Data Matching and Data Cleaning Software from Infoshare Limited, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, at an initial cost of 20,000 and ongoing annual maintenance costs of 3,250.

 

IV SUPPLY OF IT EQUIPMENT - GCAT

 

There was submitted Report No 305-2004 by the Head of Information Technology reporting the IT equipment purchased under the GCAT Government procurement scheme.

 

The Committee:-

 

(i)noted the IT purchases amounting to 179,888 detailed in Appendix 1 for the period 13th December 2003 to 29th March 2004 and

 

(ii)approved ongoing engineering maintenance costs of 14,169 per annum.

 

V EXTENSION TO BETTER NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES FUND

 

There was submitted Report No 159-2004 by the Assistant Chief Executive (Community Planning) updating the Committee on the Scottish Executive's decision to grant a one year extension to the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund.

 

The Committee approved the content of the Local Outcome Agreement outlined in Appendix 1 of the report and agreed that it be forwarded to the Scottish Executive for approval.

 

The Committee resolved under Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973 that the public and press 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 1 of Schedule 7(A) of the Act.

 

VI DUNDEE ENERGY RECYCLING LIMITED (DERL) WASTE TO ENERGY PLANT

 

There was submitted for information Report No 199-2004 and Report No 251-2004 both by the Chief Executive.

 

It was noted that in view of the timescales involved the recommendations in Report No 199-2004 had been approved by the Chief Executive, in consultation with Councillors Shimi, Sawers and Macpherson and Bailie Mackie, and that Report No 251-2004 had been approved by the Depute Chief Executive (Support Services), in consultation with Councillors Shimi, FitzPatrick and Macpherson and Bailie Mackie.

 

 

 

 

JILL SHIMI, Convener.