Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Transformation Projects providing the Committee with an update on the Council's Transformation Programme, attached.

The Committee considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Transformation Projects updating the Committee on the Council’s Transformation Programme.

The Cabinet Member for Transformation and the Chief Strategy Officer were present and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting.

Chief Strategy Officer responded to questions about staff redundancies and stated that nobody has been re-employed by Southampton City Council where an exit payment was made. The Chief Strategy Officer discussed the function of the Exit Panel to monitor retention of key skills.

RESOLVED:

  (i)  That the Committee are provided with an update on expenditure on Waste Services employee costs against the approved budget.

  (ii)  That, when the LATCO report is discussed at the August meeting of the OSMC, the briefing paper to the Committee references the capital funding to establish the LATCO and where the funding will come from.

 (iii)  That the following information is circulated to the Committee:

a.  Clarification of the 2 year savings target for procurement savings initiatives.

b.  Progress against the procurement savings target.

 (iv)  That the next Transformation Update report to OSMC includes reference to the effectiveness of the new governance arrangements that have been established to ensure that the targeted procurement savings are realised.