ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL
Chief Executive Officer
County Hall
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 1UD
7 October 2003
To:
ALL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL
You
are hereby summoned to attend a MEETING of the COUNCIL to be held on WEDNESDAY,
15 October 2003 in the COUNCIL CHAMBER, COUNTY HALL, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT
commencing at 10.00 am for the transaction of the business set out in
the agenda below.
PRAYERS
1.
To approve as a correct
record and to sign the Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 17 September 2003 (Paper A).
2.
To
receive any declarations of interest.
3.
To
deal with any questions from members of the public.
Questions may be asked without notice but to guarantee a full
reply at the meeting, the question must be delivered in writing or by
electronic mail to Committee Services no later than 10.00 am on Monday, 13
October 2003.
4.
To receive any official communications
and correspondence submitted by the Chairman.
5.
Draft Isle of Wight Local Healthcare Strategy
To receive a presentation from Mr Mark Price, Joint Director of Strategic Development for Isle of
Wight Primary Care Trust and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust, on the Draft Isle of Wight Local Healthcare Strategy
prior to it going out to consultation.
Mr Graham Elderfield, Chief Executive of the Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS
Trust, Mr David Crawley, Chief Executive of the Isle of Wight Primary Care
Trust and Mr Richard Samuel, Assistant Chief Executive of the Hampshire and
Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority will also be present to answer any
questions that may arise.
A Draft of the Isle of Wight Healthcare Strategy will be circulated to
all Members on Wednesday 8 October.
Following the presentation
the Council will consider the draft Strategy and decide accordingly.
6.
Great
Access to Great Services
The full text of the
resolution of the Executive held on 24 September 2003 is contained in Paper B1. The minutes of that meeting are contained in
Paper B2.
The key element of the 24
September 2003 Executive decision is to delay the implementation of this
resolution for so long as is necessary for the normal budget processes to
deliver sufficient clarity in relation to the 2004/5 budget to allow
implementation. In the resolution,
THE EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDS THAT FULL
COUNCIL:
(a)
Confirms that the budget
allocations for 2003/04 and in future years (including those allocated to
underwrite the rent at Enterprise House, for strategic development of ICT and
from savings generated by the implementation) can be used to deliver the two
GAGS projects, as set out below;
(b)
Notes that the Executive
will, at any time, delay expenditure on a corporate call centre if necessary to
protect the standards of service delivery and/or to achieve greater clarity in
relation to the 2004-05 budget.
(Please bring with you to
the meeting the papers on GAGS (Paper C1 and Paper C2) that were
circulated with the agenda for the Executive on 24 September 2003)
7.
Constitutional Amendments
To consider the attached
report from the Leader of the Council on Constitutional Amendments (Paper C)
8.
EXECUTIVE :
Portfolio Holders to give an update on major issues and to answer written and oral questions on budget or policy
:
(i)
The Leader (Mrs S A Smart)
(ii)
Deputy Leader (Mr P G Harris)
(iii)
Economic
Development, UK and EU, Regional Issues (Mr H Rees);
(iv)
Education
and Community Development (Mrs J L Wareham);
(v)
Fire,
Emergency Planning and Consumer Protection (Mr D J Knowles);
(vi)
Resources
(Mr R R Barry);
(vii)
Social
Services and Housing (Mr G Kendall);
(viii)
Sustainable Development,
Environment and Planning Policy (Mrs T Butchers);
(ix)
Tourism
and Leisure (Mr J Fleming);
(x)
Transport
(Mr E Fox).
To guarantee a full reply Members must submit a question in
writing or by electronic mail to Committee Services no later than 10.00 am on
Tuesday, 14 October 2003. A further period of 10 Minutes will be allowed for
oral questions to each Portfolio Holder.
M J A FISHER
Chief Executive Officer