Issue - meetings

The Director of Finance and Support Services submitted a report on the performance of key indicators for Community Scrutiny Committee for the period February to March 2015.  The Head of Business Development referred to missing data which had been emailed to Members and had been tabled at the meeting.  He explained that the report looked retrospectively at the performance of 11 performance indicators covering the period of the previous administration and stated that new Members might want to set new objectives and priorities.

In response to a query from Councillor D Oldridge regarding the timescale of the trends, the Performance Monitoring Officer provided an update. 

In response to a query from Councillor K Warnell regarding the establishment of targets, the Acting Chief Executive explained that these were considered by the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees and then approved by the Executive.  He stated that it was the intention of corporate management team to review how the Council used performance indicators with a view to establishing whether they were productive and whether more useful trends could be identified.  He referred to homelessness which was not measured as a key indicator but that statistics on this issue could provide invaluable information to both Officers and Members.

The Committee received the report.

RESOLVED – that the reported performance for the period February to March 2015 be received.