Agenda and minutes

Executive Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 29th September, 2011 7.30 pm

Venue: Committee Room 7 - Civic Centre, High Street, Uxbridge UB8 1UW. View directions

Contact: Khalid Ahmed 

Note: At the rising of Cabinet 

Items
No. Item

14.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

Councillor Edward Lavery declared a Personal Interest in Agenda Item 11 – Council Budget – Month 4 – 2011/12 Revenue and Capital Monitoring Report of the Cabinet agenda as he was a Governor of Ruislip High School. He remained in the room and took part in discussions on the item. 

15.

Minutes of the meeting held on 28 July 2011 pdf icon PDF 227 KB

Minutes:

Agreed as an accurate record.

16.

Exclusion of Press and Public

To confirm that the items of business marked Part I will be considered in public and that the items marked Part II will be considered in private.

Minutes:

It was agreed that all items of business were considered in public.

 

17.

Consideration of any Call-Ins of Decisions Made at the Cabinet Meeting held on 29 September 2011 pdf icon PDF 71 KB

To hear the Call-In of any decision made at the Cabinet meeting prior to this meeting or made by Cabinet Members, other Council Committees or a delegated officer and published within five working days of this meeting.

 

Members should bring their Cabinet agenda to the meeting.

 

Members should consider any other decision published in the five working days before this meeting.

 

The purpose of this meeting is to decide whether to refer back any decision to the decision maker.

Minutes:

Members gave consideration to the Cabinet reports of 29 September 2011 and after careful consideration Members decided not to call-in any decision made by the Cabinet at their meeting.

 

However, the Committee requested further information and clarification on the following Cabinet reports:-

 

Cabinet Agenda Item 6 - Queens Walk Learning and Development Centre

 

On page 63 of the agenda reference was made to provisionally transferring these events subject to Cabinet approval to Adult Learning Centres across the Boroughs. One centre was listed as Stockley. Members asked if this would be at Stockley Academy?

 

[Subsequent to the meeting, officers provided the following response:

 

“The proposal would be for a centre on part of the Stockley Academy site on Park View Road.”]

 

Cabinet Agenda Item 7 - Transformation of Adult Social Care - Personalisation and Commissioning Plan 2011-2015

 

On page 88 of the agenda under the paragraph headed "Older People" the third bullet point, "of the current older people population 89% are White, 7.5% Asian and only 1.6% Black".

 

Members asked for clarification on this breakdown and was this referring to over 65's or 85's?

 

[Subsequent to the meeting, officers provided the following response:

 

“The ethnic breakdown referred to the over 65 population and was as follows:

White 89%, Asian 7.5%, Black 1.7%, Chinese or other 0.8% and Mixed race 0.7%. This came to 99.7% due to rounding up.”]

 

Cabinet Agenda Item 8 - Disabilities Commissioning Plan 2011-2015

 

Members asked when was the consultation with service users and other stakeholders due to start and finish.

 

[Subsequent to the meeting, officers provided the following response:

 

“The consultation with service users and other stakeholders started on 3 October 2011 and was due to end in mid December. The outcome of the consultation would be reported to Cabinet in January 2012.”]

 

Cabinet Member Decision on the Council petition to allow the Ramgarhia Sikh Association Hayes to purchase the former Golden Crescent Library in Hayes: consideration of response following Council resolution

 

The Leader of the Opposition requested that the Chairman of the Committee give consideration to calling in the above recently published Cabinet Member Decision. Members were reminded that under the Rules of Procedure for Call-Ins, decisions made by Cabinet Members, can be called-in by agreement of the Chairman of this Committee and the lead representative of the Opposition Group on the Committee within 5 working days of the decision being published. This decision was published on 23 September 2011 and was therefore within the time frame.

 

A discussion took place amongst Members in relation to the decision. The lead representative of the Opposition Group on the Committee expressed concern at the failure of the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet Member for Finance, Property & Business Services to take into consideration the opposition of the local MP, the six Ward Councillors, and local community groups to the Cabinet decision of 14 April 2011 to make the former Golden Crescent Library surplus to requirements.

 

The Member also expressed his concern at the submission  ...  view the full minutes text for item 17.