Agenda and minutes

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To receive.

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To receive.

Councillor W. Hodgins declared an interest in the following:

Item No. 8 Position Statement of Performance Against the Service Level Agreement with the Shared Resource Service (SRS) for the period 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023.

To receive the decisions of the Special Partnerships Scrutiny Committee held on 19^th October, 2023.

(Please note the decisions are submitted for points of accuracy only.)

The decisions of the Special Partnerships Scrutiny Committee held on 19^th October, 2023 were submitted.

The Committee unanimously AGREED that the decisions be accepted as a true recording of proceedings.

The Action Sheet arising from the Special meeting held on 19^th October, 2023 was submitted.

The Committee AGREED that the action sheet be noted.

The Chair reported that Item No. 8 would be considered first on the agenda.

Consideration was given to report of the Chief Officer Commercial & Customer.

The Committee AGREED to recommend that Option 1 be accepted, namely:

·       That the Committee considered the position statement on performance for the period 1^st April, 2022 to 31^st March, 2023 against the SLA in place with SRS, prior to submission to Cabinet; and

·       Receive annual updates as part of the ongoing partnership with SRS.

Consideration was given to report of the Service Manager, Young People & Partnerships.

The Committee AGREED to recommend that the information detailed in the report be accepted (Option 1).

Consideration was given to report of the Service Manager, Young People & Partnerships.

The Committee AGREED to recommend that the report be accepted; and to support the Trust in making energy savings, the Committee recommended that the Council look at works that needed to be undertaken to utilise the energy centre on the Steelworks Site. (Option 2)

Consideration was given to report of the Scrutiny & Democratic Officer.

The Welsh Libraries Report would be submitted to a future meeting of the Committee.

The Committee AGREED, subject to the foregoing, that the report be accepted and the FWP for the meeting on 22^nd February, 2024 be accepted (Option 1).