Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

There were no apologies for absence.

 

County Councillor Lorraine Beavers replaced County Councillor Azhar Ali OBE.

2.

The Constitution, Membership, Terms of Reference and Programme of Meetings for the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement pdf icon PDF 106 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

A report was presented setting out the constitution, membership, revised Terms of Reference of the Cabinet Committee, and the programme of meetings for 2021/22.

 

Resolved: The Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement noted:

 

(i)  The constitution and membership of the Committee, following the Full Council annual meeting on 27thMay 2021.

 

(ii)  The revised Terms of Reference of the Committee.

 

(iii)  The agreed programme of meetings for 2021/22.

3.

Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests

Members are asked to consider any Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests they may have to disclose to the meeting in relation to matters under consideration on the Agenda.

Minutes:

No pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests were disclosed.

4.

Minutes of the Meeting held on 20th April 2021 pdf icon PDF 192 KB

Minutes:

Resolved: That the minutes of the meeting held on 20th April 2021 be confirmed and signed by the Chair.

5.

Corporate Strategy Monitoring report - Quarter 4 2020/21 performance update pdf icon PDF 229 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

A report was presented by Donna Talbot – Head of Business Intelligence, on performance update for Quarter 4 2020/21.

 

Appendix 'A' provided the latest performance updates available against the agreed Corporate Strategy indicators. In addition, it provided the latest available Quarter 4 2020/21 performance information and associated commentary on the current position against each indicator, including any related issues and required actions.

 

The Cabinet Committee noted the highlights of good performance, and those

indicators performing below the desired level and/or those that were due to the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic, as detailed in the report.

 

The following officers attended the meeting and provided details and updates on their respective service areas:

 

· Tony Pounder – Director of Adult Services

· Ian Crabtree – Director of Adults Disability & Care Services

· John Davies – Head of Service, Highways

· Andy Walker – Head of Service, Business Growth

 

It was noted that a representative from Children's Services could not attend the meeting due to the forthcoming Ofsted visit and that any questions from Committee would be passed on and a response obtained.

 

Specific areas were discussed as follows:

 

Lancashire will be the place to live

 

Safety carriageway defects – it was reported that the majority of emergency and urgent defects were reported by members of the public and that the non-emergency defects were mainly picked up by Highway Inspectors. Committee's attention was drawn to the importance of noting that carriageway defects encompassed more than potholes. It was reported that the winter season had seen a much higher number of multiple daily gritting runs than usual, with 5500 treatments actioned over 91 days compared with 4191 in the previous winter. This had resulted in a reduction of resources available for daytime. In addition, the storm and heavy rainfalls in February and March had led to staff being deployed to flood incident management as part of our severe weather response. There were usually approximately 1,500 defects reported per day but in the winter of 2020/21, there was a substantial increase to 4,700 per day. A significant number of defects had been repaired within the required timescales although mitigating factors as to why targets had not been met included Covid sickness, far more gritting runs and the weather preventing some repairs to be carried out. Going forward, it was reported that the county council would have new partners on board next year to assist with carriageway repairs, due to a new contract being set up from April 2021.

 

County Councillor Edwards pointed out that any indicators below target should be put into context due to the extenuating circumstances this winter and confirmed that innovative solutions were currently being looked into for future Winter Highways repair services.

 

Street lighting fault repairs – non-traffic management fault repairs had met the target. Traffic management faults had narrowly missed the target with just 3 faults repaired out of time.

 

The Covid pandemic had also resulted in several Highways staff members having to shield/isolate and increased numbers of staff working from home.  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

6.

Urgent Business

An item of Urgent Business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the minutes, the Chairman of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency.  Wherever possible, the Chief Executive should be given advance warning of any Members' intention to raise a matter under this heading.

Minutes:

There were no items of Urgent Business.

7.

Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement will  be held on Thursday 9th September 2021 at 2.00pm.

Minutes:

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement would be held at 2.00pm on Thursday 9th September 2021.