Agenda, decisions and minutes

There were none.

Members are invited to disclose any interests in any of the items on the agenda at this point of the meeting. Members may still disclose an interest in an item at any time prior to the consideration of the matter.

There were no declarations of interest.  Councillor Viddy Persaud left the meeting after agenda item 7 and did not play any part in the discussion or decision making.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 16 December 2020, and to authorise the Chairman to sign them.

The minutes for the meeting held on 16^th December 2020, were agreed and signed by the Chair as an accurate record of the same.

Cabinet :

1.    Approved the principle of rationalising the Council’s administrative accommodation, generating revenue savings to support the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy, delegating authority to the Director of Asset Management to take such actions necessary to negotiate the re-use of surplus assets.

2.    Approved the immediate programme of building works necessary to provide the new Appointment Centre on the lower ground floor of the Town Hall other measures to facilitate the rationalisation of buildings, including the commencement of related procurement processes.

3.    Recommended the allocation of additional capital funding in the sum of £1.5m within the Council’s capital programme to fund the immediate investment proposals within this report, subject to endorsement by Full Council.

4.    Noted that detailed proposals for the re-use of surplus assets will be the subject of individual business cases to be brought forward subsequently for each building.

The report was presented and summarised to Cabinet by Councillor Roger Ramsey detailing the rationalisation of the office accommodation used by the London Borough of Havering.  The model behind this has come about following the Covid 19 pandemic, which has seen the vast majority of office staff working from  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

Cabinet:

1.    Agreed the implementation of all elements of the Smart Working Plus programme as detailed within this report

2.    Approved and agree to recommend to Full Council the allocation of additional capital funding in the sum of £1,665,500 profiled in 21/22 financial year to deliver the programme

On the invitation of the Leader of the Council, Darren Rose, SmartWorking Manager presented the report to Cabinet building on the information regarding the Asset Rationalisation matter to develop the Council into a modern and agile organisation.

This report progresses SmartWorking Phase One which saw the roll out of 70%  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

Cabinet:

1.    Approved the release of additional capital funding of £6.3 million in Year 1, as  part  the  2021/22 Budget Medium  Term  Financial  Strategy, to resolve urgent technical needs and begin to prioritise and deliver further enabling projects for the support of ongoing transformational and enabling Digital programmes of work; and 

2.    Approved the direction of travel set out in the Digital Portfolio Business Case, at Appendix A of the report, to allow the development ofan extensive infrastructure renewal programme and the development of the Digital Portfolio for the benefit of stable, secure and enabling technologies to be realised throughout the borough, realising positive step change for corporate functions, as well as residents and businesses in the community.direction of travel as set out in this Digital Portfolio Business Case, to allow the development ofan extensive infrastructure renewal programme and the further development of the Digital Portfolio for the benefit of stable, secure and enabling technologies to be realised throughout the borough of Havering, realising a significant and positive step change for corporate functions, as well as residents and businesses in the community.

Maxine Brown, Digital Portfolio Director, presented the report to Cabinet detailing the delivery of this project.

The Digital Portfolio’s objectives are to:

·       Stabilise and rationalise Havering’s current technology ecosystem

·       Create the various enabling digital and data capabilities (people, skills, technology, data, and processes) for the organisation to deliver its corporate  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

The report included in agenda item 9 contains an exempt appendix A.  Cabinet will consider whether the public and press should now be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the grounds that it is likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, if members of the public were present during that item there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972; and, if it is decided to exclude the public and press on those grounds, Cabinet to resolve accordingly on the motion of the Chairman.

The meeting moved into closed session to facilitate discussion regarding exempt agenda items.

The meeting moved into closed session to facilitate discussion regarding exempt agenda items.

Appendix A is an exempt document.

Ben Plant, the Director of Human Resources presented this report to Cabinet.  This report asks Cabinet to approve a contract award for the supply of temporary workers to Matrix via the ESPO Mstar3 London Collaboration call-off. It is also recommended that the Council’s contract with Adecco, the incumbent supplier, is  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.