Archived decisions

Appendix 3

Efficiencies and how they can be applied

1. Efficiencies:

Item	2008/09 £'000	2009/10 £'000	2010/11 £'000
Relocation of resources from Copnor Fire Station	875	785
Non-pay revenue costs of Copnor Fire Station		26	26
Collaborative insurance arrangements	40
Reduction in allowances associated with the former day-crewing system	578	131	4
Sale of housing stock - savings in maintenance. costs		25	25
Organisational restructuring of the Human Resources Department	121
Reduction in administrative support costs (through organisational restructuring and economies of scale in Service Delivery)	98	22
Grey Book staff organisational restructuring in Service Delivery departments	386	94
Cost reductions from adopting the Ministry of Defence fixed telecommunications (`Firebuy' contract)	18
More cost-effective photocopier and shirt contract	25
Organisational restructuring in Training Department	58	51
Organisational restructuring in Control Room	38
Co-responder uniform contract	5
Reduction in budget for new hydrant schemes used to reduce buildings maintenance backlog		50
Efficiency gains in Human Resources Department used to fund increase in Maternity pay		33
Value of efficiency savings identified to date	2,242	1,217	55
Surplus bought forward		1,187	1,349
Surplus carried forward	-1,187	-1,349
Value of efficiencies in excess of target			-349
Total	1,055	1,055	1,055

2. How they can be applied:

Item	2008/09 £'000	2009/10 £'000	2010/11 £'000
Reduction of business education income	117
Staff regrading	66	5
Increase in wholetime crewing at Havant fire station to shift from 1.10.08	598	598
Transfer of water tender and wholetime staff to Southsea fire station from 1.10.08	366	366
Temporary crewing support for new retained crew at St Marys fire station	132
New post created as Logistics Manager in community safety	19	13
Transfer of special equipment unit and wholetime staff to Cosham fire station from 1.7.08	215	71
Increase in retained salaries for completing incident recording system		22
Increase in retained salaries for additional Eastleigh crewing	64
Temporary increase in salaries cost for retained claims input	31	-31
Organisational restructuring of the Human Resources Department	32	4
Increase grade and hours of Fitness Adviser	23

Organisational restructuring of Community Safety Department	152	40
Redeployment of staff to Marketing and Communications Department	53
Review of reprographics service - increase in stationery budget	20
Increased secretarial support resulting from additional area managers	6	19
Increased buildings maintenance budget to help reduce backlog		50
Increase in maternity pay		33
Additional responsibility allowances paid to grey book	160
Retained management system	52	-52
Organisational restructuring in the Training Department	48
IT project Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)	18
Workforce management information system	70	-70
Yet to be allocated		149	55
Total	2,242	1,217	55

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