Agenda, decisions and minutes

Venue: Committee Rooms 2 and 3, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford M32 0TH

Contact: Jo Maloney 

Items
No. Item

53.

ATTENDANCES

To note attendances, including officers, and any apologies for absence.

54.

QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

A maximum of 15 minutes will be allocated to public questions submitted in writing to Democratic Services (democratic.services@trafford.gov.uk) by 4 p.m. on the working day prior to the meeting. Questions must be relevant to items appearing on the agenda and will be submitted in the order in which they were received.

Minutes:

It was noted that there were no questions from members of the public to be referred to the current meeting.

55.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

Members to give notice of any interest and the nature of that interest relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the adopted Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

No declarations were made by Executive Members.

56.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 122 KB

To receive and, if so determined, to approve as a correct record the Minutes of the following meetings:

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED – That the Minutes of the Meeting on 30th September, and of the Special Budget Meeting on 14th October, 2019, be approved as correct records.

57.

MATTERS FROM COUNCIL OR OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEES (IF ANY)

To consider any matters referred by the Council or by the Overview and Scrutiny Committees.

Minutes:

There were no issues to be referred to the current meeting.

58.

HIGHWAYS, TRANSPORTATION, ENVIRONMENT AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES (HTEC20) PROPOSED CHANGES TO SERVICE DELIVERY pdf icon PDF 146 KB

To consider a report of the Executive Member for Environment, Air Quality and Climate Change.

NOTE: A related report is considered in Part II of this agenda.

Decision:

1. That the approach taken set out in the Part 1 section of the report be noted.

2. That the recommended next steps as set out in the Part 2 report be approved.

3. That authority be delegated to the Corporate Director for Place, in consultation with the Corporate Director for Finance and Systems and the Corporate Director for Governance and Community Strategy, to take the recommended next steps.

4. That it be requested that a further report be brought back to the Executive in due course

Minutes:

The Executive Member for Environment, Air Quality and Climate Change submitted a report which described the approach taken to implementing the Executive's recommendations from July 2019 relating to service delivery options for services currently provided under a contract between the Council and Amey LG (the One Trafford Partnership for Highways, Transportation, Environment and Consulting services). It was noted that further details of the options under consideration were included in a separate report, to be considered in Part II of this agenda, and that it would not therefore be appropriate to consider the recommendations until after the Executive had had the opportunity to consider and debate that report.

59.

EXCLUSION RESOLUTION

Motion   (Which may be amended as Members think fit):

 

            That the public be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the remaining items on the agenda, because of the likelihood of disclosure of “exempt information” which falls within one or more descriptive category or categories of the Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, as amended by The Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006, and specified on the agenda item or report relating to each such item respectively.

Minutes:

RESOLVED - That the public be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the remaining items on the agenda, because of the likelihood of disclosure of “exempt information” which falls within one or more descriptive category or categories of the Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, as amended by The Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006, and specified on the agenda item or report relating to each such item respectively.

60.

HIGHWAYS, TRANSPORTATION, ENVIRONMENT AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES (HTEC20) PROPOSED CHANGES TO SERVICE DELIVERY

To consider a report of the Executive Member for Environment, Air Quality and Climate Change.

NOTE: A related report is considered in Part I of this agenda.

 

Minutes:

Further to the report considered in Part I of this agenda, the Executive Member for Environment, Air Quality and Climate Change submitted an additional report regarding the approach taken to implementing the Executive's recommendations from July 2019 relating to service delivery options for services currently provided under a contract between the Council and Amey LG (the One Trafford Partnership for Highways, Transportation, Environment and Consulting services). The additional report set out further details of the options under consideration, and the range of potential outcomes. An opportunity was provided for members to raise questions on the report’s content, and to have a detailed discussion on the potential implications raised.

 

The Executive Member for Environment, Air Quality and Climate Change and Leader of the Council requested that thanks be accorded to the officers who had been responsible for collating the report.

 

            RESOLVED -

 

(1)       That the approach taken set out in the Part 1 section of the report be noted.

 

(2)       That the recommended next steps as set out in the Part 2 report be approved.

 

(3)       That authority be delegated to the Corporate Director for Place, in consultation with the Corporate Director for Finance and Systems and the Corporate Director for Governance and Community Strategy, to take the recommended next steps.

 

(4)       That it be requested that a further report be brought back to the Executive in due course.