Decision details

Committee to agree and consider proposals for adult social care and leisure in line with the Council’s MTFS process.

The Chairman introduced the item, which related to Business Planning, and invited the Adults and Communities Director, the Adults and Wellbeing Strategic Lead, the Customer Financial Affairs Service Manager, the Community and Well-being Assistant Director and the Head of Adults Transformation to the table to answer any questions from the committee.

The Commissioning Director, Adults and Health, then provided an overview of the contents of the report.

During the course of the debate, Councillor Farrier – seconded by Councillor Hutton – moved a motion to delete the wording of recommendation 3 and replace it with the following wording:

-       The committee request that the result of the consultation come back to the committee for further consideration.

Votes on the motion were recorded as follows:

* The Chairman used his casting vote against the motion.

The motion therefore fell.

Following consideration of the item, the Chairman moved to the recommendations, and stated that voting would be taken on each recommendation in turn. Votes for recommendation 1 were as follows:

* The Chairman used his casting vote in favour of the recommendation.

Votes for recommendation 2 were as follows:

Votes for recommendation 3 were as follows:

* The Chairman used his casting vote in favour of the recommendation.

Votes for recommendation 4 were as follows:

The recommendations were therefore carried, and the following was RESOLVED:

1.    That the Adults and Safeguarding Committee agreed to the savings programme as set out in Appendix A for recommendation to the Policy and Resources Committee.

2.    That the Adults and Safeguarding Committee agreed to the commencement of formal public consultation on the proposed changes to the Council’s Fairer Contributions Policy to start in November 2016.

3.    That the Adults and Safeguarding Committee agreed to delegate authority to the Adults and Health Commissioning Director to progress the plans for the proposed changes to the Council’s Fairer Contributions Policy, and in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee agree the Policy taking into account the feedback from the public consultation and the Equalities Impact Assessment.

4.    That the Adults and Safeguarding Committee agreed to the proposal for the core leisure fees and charges 2017/18 to take effect from 1st April 2017 - 31^st March 2018.