Issue - meetings

For Cabinet to note:

Ø      Interim Report on Waste and Recycling Services

Note by the Head of Local Democracy and Member Services

Part 4 Section G Paragraph 1.3 (vii) of the Constitution states that following endorsement by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, final reports and recommendations will be presented to the next available Cabinet meeting. The Cabinet will note the report and request a responding report from the Chief Executive or Chief Officer and Cabinet Member responsible. The request is to be available within six weeks of the request and will include a detailed tabulated implementation action plan.

Cabinet received an interim report from the Environment and Housing Scrutiny Panel, which was presented by Councillor McNamara, Chair of the Panel on Waste and Recycling Services.

Councillor McNamara outlined the process the Panel had followed in producing the interim report and the ten key recommendations contained within it.

The Cabinet Member for the Environment thanked Councillor McNamara and members of the Panel for the work they had undertaken in producing the report and noted that she looked forward to receiving the Panel’s final report. Cabinet was advised that the proposed response to this would be brought to its next meeting on 18 December 2012.

RESOLVED:

1. That the report be noted.

2. That a response to the recommendations contained within the report should be compiled and received at the next Cabinet meeting on 18 December 2012.