Issue - meetings

The Portfolio Holder for Finance and Enabling presented the Quarter 4 Performance Monitoring Report for the 2022/23 financial year.  Members were advised that usually this report would have included financial monitoring data but, to provide time to gather more information, a decision had been taken to report the financial information in July.  Progress had been made in a range of areas since the previous update to the Executive Committee, including through a reduction in staff turnover below the national average and an increase in Council Tax collection rates to a level that was better than expected.

The Executive Committee discussed the report and in doing so commented on the delays with respect to the development at Edgeworth Close.  Member questioned when the development would be progressed further and the financial implications of the delay.  Officers explained that initially there had been an aim to complete required actions by March 2023, but this had been delayed to August due to a range of issues, including challenges accessing materials.

Reference was made to the graphs and other images that had been included in the report.  As Committee agenda packs were always published in black and white, some Members commented that it could be difficult to view the graphs on printed copies of the agenda as they appeared in different shades of grey.  However, it was noted that the full report could be viewed quite clearly in the electronic version, as published on the Council’s website and which was accessible using the modern.gov app.  The Leader urged Members to use the app to access their papers electronically to help address this problem moving forward.  The Committee was asked to note that modern.gov app training had recently been provided to Members and further training could be provided if needed.

RESOLVED that

the Quarter 4 Performance data for the period up to 31^st March 2023 be noted.