Agenda and minutes

At this point Members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda.

Members were invited to declare at this point in the meeting any personal or prejudicial interests they might have in the business on the agenda.

Councillor King declared a personal non-prejudicial interest in Executive item 5 (Minutes of Social Inclusion Working Group and Young People’s Working Group) as a member of the Access Group.

Councillor Potter declared a personal non-prejudicial interest in Executive item 5 (Minutes of Social Inclusion Working Group and Young People’s Working Group) as Older People’s Champion.

To approve and sign the minutes of the Shadow Executive meeting held on 15 November 2006.

RESOLVED:             That the minutes of the meeting of the Shadow Executive held on 15 November 2006 be approved and signed by the Chair as a correct record.

At this point in the meeting members of the public who have registered their wish to speak regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the Shadow Executive’s remit can do so. The deadline for registering is Tuesday 28 November 2006, at 10.00 am.

It was reported that there had been no registrations to speak at the meeting under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme.

The Shadow Executive made the following comments on the Forward Plan at page 1 of the papers circulated for the Executive meeting to be held on 5 December 2006:

The Shadow Executive:

·  May require Officer attendance at the relevant Shadow Executive meeting/s in respect of the following items (current Executive dates in brackets):

o Leisure Facilities Strategy (19/12)

oThin Client/Competition Strategy (19/12)

oStrategic Procurement Programme (19/12)

oFuture of the Archives (16/1)

oSecond Corporate Performance and Financial Monitor (16/1)

oSecond Capital Monitor (16/1)

oRevenue Budget 2007/08 – 2009/10 (16/1)

oCapital Budget 2007/08 – 2009/10 (16/1)

oRevised Waste Strategy (13/3)

The Shadow Executive made the following comments on the minutes of the meeting of the Social Inclusion Working Group held on 20 September 2006 and the meeting of the Young People’s Working Group held on 25 October 2006 at page 9 of the papers circulated for the Executive meeting to be held on 5 December 2006.

Having discussed the issues set out in the report, the following comments were agreed:

The Shadow Executive:

·  Endorse the resolution in minute 9 (Provision of Adult Changing Places) of the Social Inclusion Working Group and consider the suggested use of planning gain is particularly appropriate given the potential of using Castle Piccadilly, Hungate and possibly York Central.

·  Endorse the resolution in minute 11 (Update from the Children and Young People’s Champion) of the Young People’s Working Group and observe that a number of the issues raised by young people had been flagged up on previous occasions and were disappointed that no progress had been made with these.

The Shadow Executive considered a report which was listed as item 6 on the agenda for the Executive meeting on 5 December, at page 21.  The report provided an update on the current position of funding for Supporting People, advised of the cost pressures arising from new, complex cases in adult social services and sought approval to release funding from contingency for additional complex cases in 2006/07.

Having discussed the issues set out in the report and questioned officers present at the meeting, the following comments were agreed:

The Shadow Executive:

·  Endorse the recommendations in the report.

RESOLVED:(i) That the Executive be asked to take the above comments into account when considering this item.

(ii)                        That the item not be called in.

The Shadow Executive requested that two reports be brought to their next meeting on 13 December 2006 on delivering Gershon and strategic service savings (including through procurement) over the next 4 years, and providing an update on the Discus bungalows.  This item was raised under urgent business by the Chair as the reports were required for the next meeting.