Agenda and minutes

The Former Joint Meeting - Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Planning and Transportation and the Cabinet Member for Streetpride Services - Monday 15 February 2010 10.00 a.m.

Venue: Management Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, Bailey House, Rawmarsh Road, ROTHERHAM. S60 1TD

Items

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Item

35.

Performance Indicators, third quarter results - 1st April to 31st December, 2009 PDF 54 KB

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Alan Platt, Best Value Officer, to report.

- to report the 3^rd Quarter Performance Indicators.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report presented by the Best Value Officer, detailing the performance results up to the third quarter of the year 2009/2010.

The report focused on indicators affected by the following issues:-

- Performance measures in the EDS suite of performance indicators

- Performance indicators that have not reached their target setting

- Performance clinics

- All England upper quartile comparisons 2007/2008

- PriceWaterhouseCoopers upper quartile comparisons 2008/2009

- The New Performance Framework – Single Set of National Indicators, out of 198 indicators, EDS indicators are identified in this report. Local Area Agreement (LAA) indicators for which EDS is responsible have also been identified.

- Equalities report

- Risk Management report.

Reference was made to:-

Total number of indicators = 107

Number of indicators that had achieved target = 76 (71%) - green

Number of indicators that are slightly outside target = 16 (15%) – amber

Number of indicators that have not achieved target = 11 (10.2%) – red

Number of indicators with no target = 4 (3.8%) – grey

The following specific indicators were explained and discussed in detail:-

BV 200b	Plan making milestones which the Local Development Scheme sets out; noting the latest position in respect of the Joint Waste DPD with Doncaster and Barnsley.
NI 154	Net additional homes provided; noting the sharp fall due to market conditions.
NI 159	Supply of ready to develop housing sites: noting that the figure represented overall supply rather than a “deliverable 5 year supply”.
NI 191	Residual household waste per household – number of kg collected per household: noting current position regarding the Environment Agency’s examination of whether the biomass output from the Sterecycle process can count as being recycled.
NI 192	% of household waste sent for reuse, recycling and composting: noting the impact on this indicator of the refurbishment of the Household Waste Recycling sites, and the impact the inclusion of Sterefibre would have.
BV82A (ii)	Waste recycling:- associated reward grant.

Those present also discussed the following:-

• WREN and Landfill Tax

• Various other grants

• Quartile positions:– particularly household waste collection and household waste recycling. Rotherham’s comparative position within Yorkshire and Humberside. Actual performance compared with the quartile positions

• Use of Audit Commission data as comparator

• Issue with DEFRA re: Sterefibre

• Review of the national indicator set

• Place Survey – Civil protection awareness/Emergency response:- relationship with Sheffield City Council

• NI 8 – adult participation in sport

• NI 19 – adult usage of public libraries

• NI 10 – adult usage of museum

• Performance clinics: noting the declining employment rate in Rotherham compared to national

• The new performance framework – allocation of responsibility to officers of indicators

• Equalities monitoring

• Customer reporting and customer satisfaction - snapshot 1^st Sept to 31^st Dec 2009:- for Streetpride Connect and Development Control; Building Control

• Risk Management:- noting high risks re: 006/03e Waste Management Strategy; YES project; Reservoir failure

Resolved:- (1) That the performance indicator ... view the full minutes text for item 35.