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 any personal or prejudicial interests they might have on the business on the agenda. No interests were declared.

To approve and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the  Committee  held on 7 November 2007.

RESOLVED:             That the minutes of the last meeting held on 7 November 2007 be approved and signed as a correct record.

At this point in the meeting members of the public who have registered their wish to speak can do so. Anyone who wishes to register or who requires further information is requested to contact the Democracy Officer on the contact details listed at the foot of this agenda. The deadline for registering is 5pm on Tuesday 29 January 2008.

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

This report asks Members to consider and agree any necessary changes / additions to the draft final report and associated annexes for Scrutiny Management Committee on the Highways Maintenance review.

Members considered the draft final report for the Review of Highways Maintenance (Part B) and suggested the following amendments be made:

·        To amend the spelling in paragraph 13 of the report at bullet point 3 to Chaplin.

·        To amend the wording in paragraph 13 of the report at bullet point 16 to read; ‘The Directorates were very different at the time that the Street Environment Service was set up and since then there had been enormous changes including a very large cross-directorate and inter-departmental re-organisation.’

·        To amend the wording in paragraph 15 of the report to read; ‘All of these steps have been allowed for within the City of York Council’s PFI bid, as this is the standard of working for the Council and also that expected by the Department for Transport (DfT).’

·        To amend the wording in paragraph 17 to read ‘Members concluded that the changes to the Directorates were necessary to meet the demands of the City and therefore the delays in implementing the actions and repaying the fund was considered necessary.’

Members expressed their thanks to the Scrutiny Officer, the Democracy Officer and all other Officers that had contributed to this Scrutiny Review.

RESOLVED:             That Members requested that the above mentioned amendments be made to the report before submission to the Scrutiny Management Committee (SMC).¹

REASON:                  In order that this information can be included in the final report to be considered by SMC and the review concluded.