Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor L Wood, J Oates.

Councillor R Pritchard gave his apologies that he would need to leave the meeting at 6:30pm.

There were no Declarations of Interest.

None.

Update on responses received to Reports of the Infrastructure Safety & Growth Committee:

None.

(Discussion item)

None.

(To receive a quarterly update on the dual stream recycling service)

The Chair welcomed the officers from the Joint Waste Services who introduced the report of the Operations Manager to update on the Dual Stream Recycling Service performance and data.

The Officer highlighted the following:

Ø  The Service is stable and crew numbers are within budget.

Ø  Growth within the areas covered will have a huge impact upon the cost of the service.

Ø  Missed bins are down by around 50% on this time last year and they are continuing to look at ways to reduce these figures further particularly around assisted collections.

Ø  Complaints are down to 11.6% (in a period of over a million collections)

Ø  There is plenty of stock of Blue Bags

Ø  There is large engagement from residents (excluding the high rise flats)

Ø  The Garden Waste Service has approximately 44,000 subscriptions, 65% within Lichfield and 35% across Tamworth which is not unexpected due to Lichfield having more rural areas.

Ø  The number of contaminated bins is down from 3147 last year to 1595 this year.

Ø  Quality of material produced has improved and since the introduction of the service there has only been one rejected load which was due to an error at the plant.

Ø  Dry recycling rates have decreased slightly, whilst residual waste has increased slightly which does need to be addressed and the Joint Waste Service are looking to roll out a light touch campaign before Christmas.

Ø  There was a financial overspend of £194990 on a £6.4 million spend of which Tamworth share was approximately £80,000. There is currently an overspend of 75,000 for the current year but this could change before the end of the financial year.

Ø  The Service has a number of projects underway which are details in the report including a round review, changes in legislation (including food waste), fleet renewal and Communal blocks moving onto the Service. The service is engaging with colleagues at TBC to look at how to bring the High Rise in to the Service.

The Portfolio holder highlighted the positive data that complaints are down by approximately 87% and collections are down by 50%. They also stressed that it is unlikely that anything will move forward with this in the current Municipal year.

The Committee made the following comments/observations and asked the following questions:

1.     Do Officers have any reasons and possible solutions for the missed bins?
Officers confirmed that it can be an operation issue. There are less issues when there is a regular crew in an area, there tend to be more missed bins when a different crew attends who do not know the round. It was acknowledged that human error is a factor. Assisted collections are automated to the Cab but this is not always fed out to the crew, there is now a supervisor who has taken a responsibility for monitoring missed assisted collections and liaising with crews.

2.     What will the recycling Campaign look like and how do we educate people? Have they thought about going into  ...  view the full minutes text for item 42.

(Discussion item – link to Forward Plan is attached)

Browse plans - Cabinet, 2023 :: Tamworth Borough Council

There were no new items identified by the Committee.

To receive updates from any Working Groups

The Chair confirmed that a provisional date of the 1^st November had been proposed for a meeting.

There had been a meeting arranged for the migrant travelling community but this had to be changed.

There was no update on HGV.

(Update and discussion on the Infrastructure Safety & Growth Scrutiny Work Plan)

The Chair highlighted that as there was not time to see the decant policy before it is put to Cabinet on the 26^th October that a date will be agreed to complete a post implementation review.

The Committee consider the items on the work plan and agreed that they would still like to be update on the Town Hall Proposals when they are available and that would like a fire safety update.

It was agreed that the Assembly Rooms would be removed from the plan.

To consider excluding the Press and Public from the meeting by passing the following resolution:-

“That in accordance with the provisions of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meeting and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, and Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act and the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public  interest in disclosing the information to the public”

That in accordance with the provisions of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meeting and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, and Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act and the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information to the public

(Moved by Councillor R Claymore and Councillor T Clements)

(Report of the Leader of the Council)

Report of the Leader to provide an update on the Future High Streets Fund (FHSF) programme of works.

(Report of the Portfolio Holder for Town Centre and Commercial Property)

Report of the Portfolio Holder for Town Centre and Commercial Property proposed; changes to tariffs and pricing structures across the Council’s off-street carparking estate; the procurement of a new cashless, app based system; no changes to the current permit structure and associated fees.