Decision details

To approve the criteria for adding projects to the transformation programme and to consider adding a number of projects.

The Chief Officer (Governance) presented a report to consider the criteria for including projects in the Strategic Transformation programme along with a number of additional projects to be recommended for acceptance.

Whilst Councillor Claydon noted that social value was embedded in the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules, she requested that the project summary of P6 include specific reference as a reminder of this commitment.

On Recommendation 1, it was clarified that the acceptance criteria shown in Table 2 for moving a project to ‘live’ in the STP was either 1 and 4, or 2 and 4, or 3 and 4.  On that basis, this was supported.

The Chief Officer responded to the concerns raised by Members on some projects and gave assurance that any changes to service standards would be considered in detail by the relevant Overview & Scrutiny Committee prior to Cabinet.

After further debate, Councillor Coggins Cogan proposed an amendment to Recommendation 2 to support progression of projects P2, P10, P6 and P20 and that a clearly defined brief on P12 be brought back to the Committee.  He was seconded by Councillor Gladys Healey and on being put to the vote, this was carried.

Councillor Ibbotson requested that his vote against recommendation 2 be recorded.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the Committee recommends that Cabinet accepts the criteria used to determine which Projects qualify for inclusion into the Strategic Transformation Programme (STP), subject to the clarification given; and

(b)       That the Committee recommends that Cabinet accept four projects (P2, P6, P10 and P20), each having now met the criteria, to be included in the STP and that a clearly defined brief on project P12 be brought back to this Committee.