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24/21 |
Minutes of the Previous Meeting PDF 314 KB
To approve the minutes of the
meeting held on 16 March 2021 as an accurate record.
Minutes:
The minutes of the meeting held
on 16 March 2021 were agreed as an accurate record.
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25/21 |
Disclosure of Interests
In accordance with the
Council’s Code of Conduct and the statutory provisions of the
Localism Act, Members and co-opted Members of the Council are
reminded that it is a requirement to register disclosable pecuniary
interests (DPIs) and gifts and hospitality to the value of which
exceeds £50 or multiple gifts and/or instances of hospitality
with a cumulative value of £50 or more when received from a
single donor within a rolling twelve month period. In addition,
Members and co-opted Members are reminded that unless their
disclosable pecuniary interest is registered on the register of
interests or is the subject of a pending notification to the
Monitoring Officer, they are required to disclose those disclosable
pecuniary interests at the meeting. This should be done by
completing the Disclosure of Interest form and handing it to the
Democratic Services representative at the start of the meeting. The
Chair will then invite Members to make their disclosure orally at
the commencement of Agenda item 3. Completed disclosure forms will
be provided to the Monitoring Officer for inclusion on the Register
of Members’ Interests.
Minutes:
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26/21 |
Urgent Business (if any)
To receive notice of any
business not on the agenda which in the opinion of the Chair, by
reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of
urgency.
Minutes:
There were no items of urgent
business.
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27/21 |
Place Department Update PDF 1 MB
To receive an update on the
Place departments Budget, Staff and Service Impact.
(Presentation to
Follow)
Minutes:
The
Interim Executive Director of Place introduced the item and details
were outlined by relevant Directors in a
Presentation
Following the presentation, Members had the opportunity to ask
questions
During the consideration of the recommendations, the Committee
discussed the following:
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Growth on income had been built into the budget in
relation to ANPR cameras, camera enforcement was an efficient way
to ensure people were abiding by the law. Income for enforcement
would be a significant increase on previous years. Parking income
was used to offset concessionary travel such as the freedom pass
scheme which contribution for is laid to London
Councils
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Once motorists start to comply with restrictions,
there may be a reduction in projected revenue from penalty charges
in areas where ANPR ‘s operated.
This had been built into the model as income projection was based
on a compliance process which had been over and under estimated at
different periods.
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After the deduction of the cost of running the
service, all surplus funds goes into the freedom pass scheme, once
the surplus exceeds the cost of the freedom pass, the Council is
required to put the funds into other road schemes.
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The Council has shifted from a reactive service on
maintenance of highways. The budget to deal with reactive
maintenance such as effects of potholes as a result of adverse
weather was amended to allow for growth in the budget to allow for
the repairs to be made.
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The majority of money for Croydon works initially
came from the growth fund
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The end of furlough and reversal of uplift to
universal credit was concerning and there were a number of
strategies that had been out in place by the Council to mitigate
the knock on effect such as additional funding which had been
secured from DWP to keep Croydon Works running. Working with adult
learning, Croydon College and John Ruskin colleges to ensure
delivering what needed for residents in terms of training. Working
with DWP and other providers such as SWLP to blend different
approaches from different providers.
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The development of the community safety strategy
would address and target resources in the right way in the
antisocial behaviour teams. In being very clear about roles and
responsibilities, work had been undertaken to ensure that queries
were being routed to the right departments to make sure queries
were dealt with more quickly and efficiently. All information on
had been made clear on the Councils website.
Request for information
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Briefing from Public Realm on projected income from
ANPR
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Briefing on fee income and total expenditure on the
Planning Service
The
Sub-Committee concluded that
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The Place department always achieved savings as
required. There was however a concern about the impact this was
having on the department such as the increase in complaints in some
of its service areas. Consideration to be given to the possibility
of a deep dive to be undertaken by the Sub-Committee on plans to
address issues arising from cuts to the budget to be
undertaken.
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There was a ...
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28/21 |
South London Waste Partnership Contract PDF 948 KB
To review Veolia’s
performance under its contract for the waste, recycling collection
service and street cleansing. Additionally to review the
Council’s management of the contract.
( Report to Follow)
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The
Cabinet Member for Sustainable Croydon introduced the item by
providing context and advised that the contract was entered into in
2018 for waste collection as well as street cleaning. Veolia
collect 1.8million household waste collections per month, and 2703
miles of streets were cleansed monthly. Recycling rates had
improved significantly over the years, this was attributed to
implementing different ways to encourage residents to take
ownership and recycle more. A service
improvement plan had been put into place following the Pandemic to
address issues and improve on service delivery. This plan had been
impacted by the National HGV shortage issue. Growth increase due
increased households and increased waste remained a
challenge.
The
General Manager and the Resilience Contract Manager from Veolia
outlined details in a
Presentation
Following the presentation, Members had the opportunity to ask
questions
During the consideration of the recommendations, the Committee
discussed the following:
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Officers stated that prior to the National issues
with HGV drivers, there has been improvements in collections
performance in the last year despite challenges and the service had
performed well.
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Reporting of missed collections were usually completed online but the small number of
residents that are unable to complete reporting online they are
able to report by calling the contact centres to
report.
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Useful breakdown on street cleansing per borough,
similar information on bin collection
per borough and missed per ward would be useful
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Concerning reports regarding behaviour of crew by
some residents and officers were clear that any behavioural issues
that were reported were dealt with. There were cameras on vehicles
to capture any issues. Members welcomed the information of on board
cameras and felt this should be publicised. Officers were exploring
ways to update the cameras to enable direct feed to the office or
live feedback as this was currently not possible. There were
factors to be considered such as costs, data protection and
resources which would be part of upgrading of the
systems.
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Officers clarified that there were many reasons that
fed into the shortage of HGV drivers, in 2019 road haulage
association published that there were approximately 60K shortage,
this had now risen to approximately 100k. This was desperate and
challenging times as agency providers did not have the staff
available to provide in this current climate from a backdrop of an
already struggling industry .Veolia had been exploring several ways
to address the issues such as overhauling recruitment process,
upskilling current staff through a bespoke programme to assist them
in obtaining the appropriate licensing. A retention bonus had been
provided and increase in recruitment package. Prices had to be
increased for commercial partners to be able to fund the additional
money that was going into recruitment and retention of
staff.
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Croydon internal staff as well as some DWP staff
were currently being trained in Croydon. This commenced as of June
2021 as were not able to train any staff in 2019. Prior to 2019 there had been an apprentice
training scheme in place but not on the ...
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29/21 |
Work Programme 2021/2022 PDF 153 KB
The Streets Environment and Homes Scrutiny
Sub-Committee is asked to:-
1. Note the current position of its Work
Programme for 2021-22,
2. To consider whether there are any other
items that should be added to the work programme.
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Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Sub-Committee NOTED the work programme for the reamainder municipal
year.
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30/21 |
Exclusion of the Press and Public
The following motion is to be
moved and seconded where it is proposed to exclude the press and
public from the remainder of a meeting:
“That, under Section
100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be
excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on
the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt
information falling within those paragraphs indicated in Part 1 of
Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as
amended.”
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