Issue - meetings

Report of Director of Finance and Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes

Purpose of report

This report summarises the Council’s Performance, Risk and Finance monitoring positions as at the end of July 2021.

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended:

1.1      To note the monthly Performance, Risk and Finance Monitoring Report

Resolved

(1)       That the performance elements of the monthly Performance, Risk and Finance monitoring position for July 2021 be noted.

The Committee considered a report from the Director of Finance and Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes which summarised the Council’s Performance, Risk and Finance monitoring position at the end of July 2021.

In introducing the report, the Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes explained that 23 of the 28 performance measures and key performance indicators were reporting green, with four reporting amber. The amber indicators were related to homeless prevention; average time taken to process housing benefit changes; develop the country parks to support good lifestyle choices; and percentage of council tax collected and council tax base.

Indicators that had performed well for July included the percentage of NNDR collected, which had recovered well from the position in June; develop a recover and prosperity strategy; and reduce fuel consumption used by the council fleet.

With regard to indicator BP2.2.2, decrease in fuel consumption, the Committee asked how the council was able to reduce consumption. Queries were also raised regarding the changes to the green waste collection service, and how this might impact on routes and efficiency if rural properties don’t sign up to the chargeable scheme. The Head of Insight and Corporate Performance agreed to circulate responses from relevant officers after the meeting.

The Head of Insight and Corporate Performance also agreed to gather responses to the following questions, for circulation after the meeting:

·       Indicator BP 2.2.1, percentage of waste recycled and composted, how much was genuinely recycled and how much ends up in landfill.

·       With regard to paragraph 3.11 of the report, reviewing the findings of zero carbon Oxfordshire report, the Committee asked how long this was anticipated to take?

·       In relation to paragraph 3.9 of the report, the percentage of Business Rates collected, the Committee asked if there were any long-term historic debts as a result of covid and if so how much they totalled.

·       With regard to the ‘Service in Focus’ section at paragraph 3.12 of the report, a query was raised as to whether the 14 families that had been settled in the district were Afghan families.

Resolved

(1)       That the performance elements of the monthly Performance, Risk and Finance monitoring position for July 2021 be noted.