Agenda and decisions

Members are asked to declare any interests in the items under consideration and in doing so state:

(1) the type of interest concerned either a

(a)   personal interest

(b)   prejudicial interest

(c)    disclosable pecuniary interest (DPI)

and

(2) the nature of the interest concerned

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To seek support from the Executive for the Council and its wholly-owned companies to join the Care Leaver Covenant.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To agree that the Council joins the Care Leaver Covenant to further enhance its current offer to Our Children and Young People.

2. That the Executive recommends that all the Council's wholly-owned companies should actively consider signing up to the Care Leavers Covenant. It therefore requests the Company Secretary to liaise with each company's Managing Director and Board Chairman with a view to submitting a report to the next board meeting to join the Care Leaver covenant.

To consider the replacement of Blackpool’s core CCTV system, the purchase of a CCTV Mobile Unit and the relocation of the CCTV control room to the Municipal Buildings.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To agree to the replacement of the core CCTV system, the purchase of a CCTV Mobile Unit and the relocation of the control room to Municipal Buildings at an estimated cost of circa £2m.

2. To delegate to the Director of Community and Environmental Services, after consultation with the Director of Resources, the authority to replace the system and purchase a Mobile CCTV Unit and fund the replacement through the Self Insurance Reserve and in conjunction with the Director of Communications and Regeneration to obtain a contribution from the town centre capital investments as per paragraph 6.29.

3. To authorise the Director of Community and Environmental Services, in conjunction with the Tourism, Economy and Communities Scrutiny Committee, to formulate a framework for the review of cameras and CCTV requirements outside of the core system over the next 12 months.

4. To recommend that the Director of Resources identifies £100,000 within the Mid-Term Financial Strategy to support the revenue consequences of the CCTV service as part of the Council’s budget setting process.

To consider the development of a new town centre health centre off Adelaide Street, Blackpool.

The Executive resolved as follows:

1. To agree that Appendix 4b, to the Executive report, risk management considerations continued, is not public for publication by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as the costings would undermine the Council’s position in continuing and future negotiations.

2. To approve the purchase of the land and properties required to enable the development to proceed outlined in the map at Appendix 4a, to the Executive report.

3. To delegate authority to the Director of Communications and Regeneration, after consultation with the Leader, to finalise the transactions when all due diligence has been completed, within the financial limits set out in this report.

4. To delegate authority to the Director of Resources, after consultation with the Leader of the Council, to Prudentially Borrow up to £8m.

5. To delegate to the Director of Communications and Regeneration the negotiations and grant of Leases to the proposed end users which will form part of the Adelaide Street health campus.

6. To delegate to the Director of Communications and Regeneration the negotiations and agreements/contracts for any work related to the stopping up of any roads, diversion of utilities, construction, professional appointments and any other practical matters relating to the project and management thereafter; the costs of which are included in decision 4.

7. To authorise the Head of Legal to prepare legal documentation and enter into and complete appropriate documents/contracts as necessary to complete the transactions.

To report the level of spending and exposure against the Council’s Revenue budgets and reserves and balances for the first 3 months to 30 June 2021.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To note the report.  

2.      To require the respective directors and Director of Resources to continue to closely monitor and manage service financial and operational performances, specifically Growth and Prosperity, Children’s Services, Strategic Leisure Assets and Adult Services.

3.      To encourage the Scrutiny Leadership Board to continue to independently review the financial and operational performances of the services listed in decision 2.

4.      To note that detailed information on the financial performance of each of the Council’s wholly-owned companies will be submitted to the next meeting of the Shareholder Committee in line with decision EX26/2021 and this will be the case from now on.

5.      To continue to lobby central government (HM Treasury, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for Education in particular) along with local authority peers and networks and the Local Government Association for the funding necessary to cope with the demands and new burdens presenting as a result of both Covid and within Children’s Services.