Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Manager – Transformation and Operations.

The Services Manager – Finance and Corporate Services provided a report which summarised the Council’s performance for Quarter 2 of 2018/19, containing tasks from the Corporate Strategy 2016-20, and the Corporate Performance Indicators. The Corporate Scorecard which included full information on performance was included as an appendix to the officer’s report. The progress of the exceptions reported in Quarter 1 was also reported.

Two performance highlights had been identified: LINS24 – Number of affordable homes delivered – where the target for the year had already been reached; and LITR13 – Level of income generated through letting property owned by the Council but not occupied by the Council – where occupation remained high and income had therefore been maximised by reduction in void periods.

There was one new performance exception in quarter 2: LIFCS43 Percentage of Community Support Grant allocation spent to date – the percentage spend was lower than usual for quarter 2 at 16.51%. The scheme had been promoted to Councillors and they have also been advised of the early closing date for applications on 28 February 2019.

Members of the Board expressed concern about the number of performance measures they were being asked to consider on a quarterly basis and requested that a separate sub-group be set up to consider how to monitor the performance of the Council and its delivery of the new Corporate Strategy in advance of the start of the next financial year. The Executive Manager agreed to discuss this with the Chairman outside of the meeting.

It was RESOLVED that:

a)         the progress of the Corporate Strategy and the progress of exceptions identified in the year to date be noted.

b)         The Chairman and the Executive Manager – Transformation consider setting up a working group to review performance indicators.