Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

58.

Apologies

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were submitted on behalf of Councillor Boothby.

59.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 31 KB

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 26 April 2017.

Minutes:

It was moved by Councillor Rooney, seconded by Councillor Nickerson and

 

RESOLVED – the minutes of the meeting held on 26 April 2017 were confirmed and signed by the Leader.

60.

Declarations of interest

To receive verbally from Members any disclosures which they are required to make in accordance with the Council’s code of conduct or in pursuance of Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992.  This is in addition to the need for such disclosure to be also given when the relevant matter is reached on the agenda.

Minutes:

No interests were declared at this stage.

61.

Parish & Community Initiative Fund - request for additional funding 2017/18 pdf icon PDF 149 KB

To request an increase in the Parish and Community Initiative Fund 2017/18 by £38,013.

Minutes:

The Executive received a report which recommended funding an additional 17 schemes in the Parish and Community Initiative Fund. It was noted that paragraph 2.1 should refer to 17 schemes rather than 13.

 

It was moved by Councillor Morrell, seconded by Councillor Nickerson and

 

RESOLVED – The funding of 17 additional schemes as outlined in 3.4 be approved and funded from the Developing Communities Fund.

62.

Matters from which the public may be excluded

To consider the passing of a resolution under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 excluding the public from the undermentioned item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 3 and 10 of Schedule 12A of the 1972 Act.

Minutes:

On the motion of Councillor Ladkin seconded by Councillor Surtees, it was

 

RESOLVED – in accordance with section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 3 and 10 of Part I of Schedule 12A of that Act.

63.

Dry Recycling Collection Service

To recommend changes to the kerb side collection system for dry recyclable materials and that dry recycling collections be delivered by HBBC’s Street Scene Services from 1 April 2018.

 

A minute extract from the meeting of the Scrutiny Commission on 11 of May 2017 is attached.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report which proposed changes to the dry recycling service. Clarification was requested and provided on various costs in the report and the TUPE arrangements for staff who would be transferred should the recommendations be approved.

 

Councillor Hall suggested that, should the report be approved, the following should be included:

 

·         An additional collection round be provided from April 2018 at an estimated cost of £180,000;

 

·         Authority be delegated to the Head of Finance and the Executive member for Finance to agree the use of reserves and financing arrangements for the implementation of the new system.

 

He also requested that it be made clear that the creation of an additional trade waste collection round related to both residual and dry recycling collections.

 

The chairman of the Scrutiny Commission, in attendance in that capacity, requested that a report on the procurement of the new fleet be brought to the Scrutiny Commission following the procurement process and that value for money of the new arrangements be reported.

 

It was moved by Councillor Nickerson, seconded by Councillor Surtees and

 

RESOLVED

 

(i)            The following changes to the dry recycling system from 1 April 2018 be approved:

 

·         Continuing with the current collection frequencies (2-weekly for each bin)

·         Continuing with the current container sizes

·         Changing the dry recycling collections to fully comingled, removing the inner caddy so all materials are mixed within the bin

·         No collection of unwanted inner caddies

·         Continuing kerbside collections of textiles

·         Ceasing collection of batteries

·         Changing bring sites to fully co-mingled dry recycling banks

·         Changing trade waste dry recycling collections to fully co-mingled

 

(ii)           The collection of dry recycling materials by the council’s Street Scene Services from 1 April 2018 be approved;

 

(iii)          The creation of an additional trade waste collection round (for residual and dry recycling) be approved;

 

(iv)         An additional collection round at a cost of £180,000 be approved;

 

(v)          Authority be delegated to the Head of Finance and the Executive member for Finance to agree the use of reserves and financing arrangements for the implementation of the new system.