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Cabinet
Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Cabinet – 16 October 2007

ADDENDA

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4. Petitions and Public Address

The Leader of the Council has agreed the following request to address the meeting:-

Item	Speaker
9. Post 16 Special Educational Needs Provision	Dr Linda Hulin (representing parent campaigning group CHOICE)
10. Neighbourhood Action Groups (NAGs)	Councillor Alan Armitage (in place of Cllr Altaf-Khan, who is the Shadow Cabinet Member for Community Safety)
11. Partial Review of the South East Plan – Provision of Caravan Sites for Gypsies and Travellers	Councillor Anne Purse (as Shadow Cabinet member for Sustainable Development) Councillor Bob Johnston (as a Local Member)

5 Financial Monitoring

Members are asked to note the addition of recommendation (d).

(d) To recommend to Council that:

(1) A fund of £100K be established from the additional LABGI allocation of £340K to assist in welcoming/supporting returning military personnel to Oxfordshire from serving abroad and their families.

(2) Applications for contributions to projects to be approved by the Leader of the Council, Cabinet Member for Finance and the Assistant Chief Executive & Chief Finance Officer.

(3) Proposals for the allocation of the remaining LABGI money be considered by the Cabinet in order to make recommendations for its use to the Council Meeting in January 2008.

10. Neighbourhood Action Groups (NAGs)

Members are asked to note the letter attached at Annex 1 (download as .doc file).

11. Partial Review of the South East Plan – Provision of Caravan Sites for Gypsies and Travellers

Members are asked to note that the report recommendation refers to members endorsing advice in Appendix A. It should refer to advice in Annex A, as the report refers throughout to advice in Annex A.

12. Forward Plan and Future Business

Members are asked to note the following additions to the Forward Plan:

Community Safety Full Cabinet	Flooding To consider points of learning identified from cross agency and county feedback and debriefs arising from the July floods	20 November 2007	Director for Community Safety & Chief Fire Officer John Parry, Director for Community Safety & Chief Fire Officer (01865 855205)
Finance Full Cabinet	Asset Management Plan and Capital Strategy for 2008/09 to 2012/13 The report will be to seek the approval of Cabinet for the draft Asset Management Plan and Capital Strategy for 2008/09 to 2012/13. The plans set out the property implications of the Council’s priorities and the County Council’s capital investment strategy.	20 November 2007	Head of Property Mark Tailby, Team Leader, Strategic Asset Management, Property Services (01865 816012)
Schools Improvement and Children, Young People & Families Full Cabinet	Effective Communication with Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) Scrutiny Review To consider the findings and recommendations of the Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee	20 November 2007	Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee Michael Chard, Scrutiny Research & Support Assistant(01865 816383)
Transport Cabinet Member	Summertown Shopping Area Street Environmental Scheme – proposed traffic regulation order To consider responses to a proposal to introduce a 20mph speed limit from Lonsdale Road to Diamond Place including the eastern side roads of Mayfield Road, Summerfield	22 November 2007	Head of Transport Andrew Vidovic, Assistant Engineer (01865 810437)
Finance Full Cabinet	Better Offices Programme - Southern Hub Office Project Appraisal To seek approval of a project appraisal	20 November 2007	Head of Property Elaine Boyd, Project Officer, Strategic Asset Management Team (01865 810481)
Social Care & Policy Co-ordination Cabinet Member	Oxfordshire Home Improvement Agency and Small Repairs Service To resolve arrangements for future provision of a home improvement agency and small repairs service throughout Oxfordshire within the Oxfordshire Supporting People programme	21 November 2007	Supporting People Manager Geoffrey Ferres. Supporting People Manager (01235 469750)
Transport Full Cabinet	Oxford – London Road corridor scheme and Summertown area street environmental scheme To seek approval for a Project Appraisal to fund this scheme (over £1M)	20 November 2007	Head of Transport Mike Collins, Principal Engineer - Transport Project Implementation (01865 815877)
Change Management Full Cabinet	Second Annual Report of the Change Management Board To review progress in implementing the Change Agenda set by the Cabinet in November 2006 and agree further actions for the future	20 November 2007	Chief Executive & Cabinet Member for Change Management Hilary Simpson, Corporate Change Manager (01865 815487)
Schools Improvement Cabinet Member	Rose Hill Primary School To receive a report on the outcome of formative consultation with a range of stakeholders and to seek approval for undertaking a formal consultation on future development of the school.	7 November 2007	Director for Children, Young People & Families Roy Leach, Senior Adviser Educational Achievement (01865 428117)
Finance Full Cabinet	Sale of site of the former Lawn Upton School If the sale is less than market value the Cabinet will be asked to approve the sale of the site of the former Lawn Upton School	20 November 2007	Head of Property Mark Tailby, Team Leader, Strategic Asset Management, Property Services (01865 816012)

Members are asked to note the following amendments to the Forward Plan:

Finance Full Cabinet	Proposed New Library and Offices in Bicester (2007/062) To consider whether to proceed with this project in the light of available funding.	16 October 2007	Deferred to 15 January 2008
Transport Cabinet Member	Exclusion of Properties from Various Controlled Parking Zones (2007/118) To consider updating TROs to reflect planning agreements which exclude individual properties from relevant CPZs	22 November 2007	Deferred to 3 January 2008
Social & Community Services Full Cabinet	Independence and Support for People with a Learning Disability: Taking Forward Integrated Services (2007/157) To consider and seek agreement on the Council’s view on proposed organisational changes in the Ridgeway Partnership Learning Disability NHS Trust.	16 October 2007	Deferred to 20 November 2007
Finance Full Cabinet	Better Offices Programme – Central Offices (2007/183) To consider a Project Appraisal for the central offices project	16 October 2007	Deferred to 20 November 2007
Children, Young People & Families Full Cabinet	Children Centres (2007/169) To review progress on current programme and seek approval for consultation on Phase 3 programme	16 October 2007	Deleted
Social & Community Services Full Cabinet	Director of Public Health Annual Report (2007/216) To present the finalised Director of Public Health Annual Report, following consultation with and input from a wide range of stakeholders, together with a further report on how identified areas of concern are being addressed by agencies across Oxfordshire.	16 October 2007	Deferred to 20 November 2007
Transport Cabinet Member	Banbury Waterloo Drive Parking Restrictions: (2007/191) The main focus of this scheme is to improve safety by the signal junction with Middleton Road where unrestricted parking on both sides of the road presently impedes it. It is also hoped that full adoption of Waterloo Drive will be complete by the time of this meeting to allow this scheme to be implemented if it is approved.	4 October 2007	Deferred to 22 November 2007
Change Management Full Cabinet	Scoping Study for 21^st Century Customer: (2007/202) To consider recommendations from 21^st Century Customer Scoping Study	20 November 2007	Deferred to 15 April 2008

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