Issue - meetings

Purpose of Report

To provide the Executive with a progress report on strategic projects monitored by the Strategic Plan Implementation Team against its milestones for the second quarter of 2017/18.

Decision

That progress in delivery of strategic projects be noted.

Alternative Options Considered and Rejected

None.

Reason for Decision

The Strategic Plan Implementation Team was currently monitoring 19 strategic projects. 10 projects were currently on target in terms of their physical and financial and risk profiles. Of these, 6 projects had been completed and were currently awaiting a post implementation review.

None of the projects were off target in accordance with the three designated areas of monitoring, which were noted as being physical progress, financial position and risk analysis. The following two projects were currently off target in one or two of these areas:

·         CCTV upgrade – works schedule, staff training and contracts milestones had missed deadlines but work on this project was drawing to an end;

·         Compulsory acquisition – 12 Albany Terrace had missed 5 milestones primarily relating to legal aspects.

Three new projects had been recommended for approval in the second quarter, noted as follows:

·         Crematorium car park lighting improvements;

·         Allotment capital improvements;

·         Purchase of new surface car parks.

The following six projects had completed their defined actions and were now awaiting completion of a Post Implementation Review:

·         Car park safety – Broadgate car park improvements;

·         New build scheme – Birchwood bungalows (20 new-build affordable units);

·         Phase 2 proposed alternations – City Hall improvements;

·         Replacement of DMS depot master – updated software for the Servitor project.

The following projects had submitted an initial Post Implementation Review, but additional data was requested so these would be finalised in the next quarter:

·         Data recovery and back up;

·         Bereavement services – improvements to facilities.

Updates on ‘mega projects’, including the Western Growth Corridor and the Transport Hub, were set out in the report. Progress reports on disabled facilities grants, delivering decent homes in the private sector and the housing revenue account business plan were also outlined in the report as ongoing annual projects.

Discussion ensued on the disabled facilities grant and it was noted that officers were in the process of putting a scheme together, in consultation with public health, to ring fence a proposed amount of £200,000 for the installation of central heating in homes where the owner or occupier was very vulnerable. This would need to go through the relevant decision making processes of the City Council and County Council and it was hoped the scheme would be available in mid-January.