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AT A MEETING of the POLICY AND RESOURCES SCRUTINY AND SELECT COMMITTEE of the COUNTY COUNCIL held at The Castle, Winchester on 9 September, 2004.
PRESENT:
Councillors: S.A. Hayes (Chairman); Mrs P.G. Banks; I.F.E. Beagley; P.J. Chegwyn; A.P. Collett; B.D. Dash; A.G. Dowden; R.J. Ellis; K. House; P.R.C. Hutcheson; M.J. Kendal; Mrs. C.A. Leversha; P.A. Pierce; A.W. Rice; M.J. Roberts; J.G.L. Wall; J.K. West.
214 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
All Members who believe they have a personal or a personal prejudicial interest in any matter to be considered at the meeting must declare their personal interest and having regard to the circumstances described in paragraphs 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the County Council's Code of Conduct, consider whether to leave the meeting whilst the matter was discussed.
215 MINUTES
The Minutes of the meeting held on 27 May, 2004 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.
216 CHAIRMAN'S COMMUNICATIONS
There were no Chairman's communications.
217 MEMBERS' QUESTIONS
There were no Members' questions.
218 DEPUTATIONS
There were no deputations.
219 THE COMMUNITY STRATEGIES FOR FAREHAM AND RUSHMOOR
The Committee considered the report of the Chief Executive (Item 6 in the Minute Book) on the draft Community Strategies for Fareham and Rushmoor, as part of the consultation process, which gave details of the key points made on each of the two strategies.
RESOLVED:
That the Committee advises the Executive Member for Policy and Resources when appropriate, to approve the Community Strategies for Fareham and Rushmoor.
220 FOOD SERVICE PLAN
The Committee considered the report of the Director of Property, Business and Regulatory Services (Item 7 in the Minute Book) on the updated statutory Food Service Plan.
Members welcomed the updated report which incorporated the new policies and systems developed as part of the Regulatory Services improvement plan. Also, they congratulated those on the food standards team for their excellent work.
RESOLVED:
That the Committee advises the Executive Member for Policy and Resources that the updated Food Service Plan, shown as Appendix 1 to the report, be approved.
221 SCIENTIFIC SERVICES BUSINESS PLAN
The Committee received and noted the report of the Director of Property, Business and Regulatory Services (Item 8 in the Minute Book) on the updated Scientific Services Business Plan 2004-2007.
222 ITEMS REQUESTED BY COUNCILLOR M.J. ROBERTS FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE COMMITTEE REPORTS
The Committee considered the requests by Councillor M.J. Roberts that future reports be presented on `Outcome from Balance of Funding Report' and on `PSR Review Outlined by the Chancellor on 12 July 2004 and its impact on Hampshire'.
As the requests had been received by the Chief Executive prior to the last scheduled meeting in July which had been cancelled, the Committee accepted an offer by the County Treasurer to give a presentation to this meeting on the Government's Spending Review 2004. However, it was no longer felt appropriate to consider Councillor Robert's other requested item as the Government had deferred the outcome of its balance of funding review.
223 PRESENTATION BY COUNTY TREASURER ON THE GOVERNMENT'S SPENDING REVIEW 2004
Arising from Minute 222 above, the Committee received and noted a presentation by the County Treasurer on the Government's Spending Review for 2004. (Copies of a paper summarising some of the key features was circulated at the meeting and appears as Item 9 in the Minute Book).
224 PREPARING FOR THE SELECT COMMITTEE PILOT
The Committee considered the report of the Chief Executive (Item 10 in the Minute Book) about preparing for the Select Committee Pilot.
Share D'All, the new Policy and Resources Scrutiny Manager, was welcomed and gave a power-point presentation on a number of issues associated with employing a select committee approach. Copies of the presentation material were circulated at the meeting and appears as Item 10(i) in the Minute Book.
Members congratulated the Scrutiny Manager on her presentation and very much looked forward to expanding the Committee's existing activity to enable it, independently of the Executive, to focus strategically across all areas of the Council's activity.
The Committee supported in broad terms the first topic areas for review as proposed by the Chairman and the three Vice-Chairmen of the Committee. However, they did not wish to duplicate similar work being done elsewhere and asked for more detailed discussions outside of this meeting to decide specific areas for review.
RESOLVED:
(i) That the first two reviews be broadly based in the areas of:
· Services for children and young people provided by the County Council
· Crime and Disorder provision by the County Council.
(ii) That membership of the Panels be on the political proportionality of 4:2:1 with Councillor W.H. Wheeler as Chairman for the first of the reviews.
(iii) That the Chairman and Minority Party Political Spokespersons of the Committee notify the Scrutiny Manager as to those members to serve on the first two Panels.
(iv) That the proposed programme for developing the scrutiny process be endorsed.
225 COMMITTEE'S TIMETABLE AND FUTURE DECISIONS
The Committee received and noted the report of the Chief Executive (Item 11 in the Minute Book) on forthcoming key-decisions which may be made by the Executive Member for Policy and Resources and on the Committee's timetable of future items.
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