Issue - items at meetings - Performance Quarter 2

Report of the Director of Strategy and Governance

46.1 The Performance Analyst introduced the report and said that action plans were available for performance denoted as significantly off target against national indicators for example NI 47 (people killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents) and  L7 (arson incidents). Data for Quarter 3 would be reported to the next meeting of the Committee.

46.2  Committee asked for year-by-year trends and action plan relating to NI 47  to be circulated.

46.3  The AD Public Safety said that there were good working relationships with the fire and rescue services and there were no general concerns about arson although a possible spate of incidents was being investigated. The method of calculation of performance was now clarified such that the calculation would likely show performance to be on target. How this had happened, would be reported to the Committee.

46.4 Questioned about the NI 167 target on congestion, for which baseline and target were both 3 minutes per mile, the Head of Transport Planning and Policy said that even maintaining journey times at a baseline level would be a challenge because of the government’s forecast of rising traffic levels.

46.5  The Assistant Director Public Safety confirmed that NI 40 referred to the number of known drug users in effective treatment for at least 12 weeks.

46.6  At report paragraph 3.8, the AD Cityclean said there had been massive changes in the October 2008 restructuring of the refuse collection rounds, with three fewer crews; and problems, as expected, had taken some time to resolve. During a usual week there are 120,000 household waste collections and ordinarily no more than about 0.04% or 48 of these are missed. The number rose considerably during the October changes. There were 1,900 reported missed collections between October – 19 January and this number is continuing to decrease although there had been continuous problems in North Woodingdean, Queen’s Park and Hollingbury, Patcham and parts of Preston Park which were being addressed.

46.7  Regarding collection rounds for recycling; there would be phased changes starting in February and some disruption to be expected over a period of around three months. There would at first be five fewer collection crews, out of nineteen, then followed by one person being removed from each recycling collection vehicle.

46.8  Replying to questions about the details of the changes, the Assistant Director said she was confident about the plans which had been developed and that the changes had been agreed with the GMB.  Moving to just two waste compartments per vehicle – glass and co-mingled – would allow for faster rounds.  A recycling  campaign will be launched in Summer..

46.9  The Committee  congratulated and thanked the officers on achieving the changes and asked for an update to the next meeting.

46.10 RESOLVED – (1) that the Committee notes progress against the Local Area Agreement and the main areas of concern within the delivery plan.

(2) that an update be requested to the next Committee meeting and the NI 47 action plan be provided to Committee Members