Meeting documents

Cabinet
Wednesday, 15th January, 2003

Bath & North East Somerset Council

MEETING:

Council Executive

AGENDA
ITEM
NUMBER

MEETING DATE:

15 January 2003

TITLE:

B&NES Performance Report: Half yearly update

WARD:

All

AN OPEN PUBLIC ITEM

List of attachments to this report: B&NES Performance plan report

1 THE ISSUE

1.1 The Director's Group receives performance reports on defined topics on a four monthly cycle as part of the Council's Planning & Review framework. The attached report is a bi-annual report providing a summary of performance and key issues arising in relation to the Council's published annual Performance Report. It summarises the key Council performance issues which have been identified in other performance reports.

1.2 This report is provided to the Executive in order to assist it in ensuring that the Council is performing to agreed targets and to agreed action plans.

2 RECOMMENDATION

2.1 That the Executive considers and notes the half yearly summary of the Council performance against its published Performance Plan.

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3 FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

3.1 Included in the report.

4 THE REPORT

4.1. As part of the Council's Planning and Review framework each Director is required to submit a performance report on defined topics to the Directors' Group. The report is also submitted to the relevant Portfolio Executive Member, a meeting of the Executive Council and finally the relevant Overview & Scrutiny panel.

4.2. The bi-annual Performance Report for the Council is attached as Appendix 1. It explains progress against key issues and results and describes issues to be addressed. It also summarises progress against the 219 targets the Council set in its published Performance Plan in 2002. Progress against targets is assessed, and the likelihood of achieving targets is assessed as either "Green" (on target), "Amber" (some difficulty expected in achieving target) or "Red" (target in danger of not being achieved).

4.3. 24 targets (11%) are forecast to be not achieved by the year end and 29 (13%) are assessed as "amber". 154 (71%) are forecast to be "green".

Contact person

Peter Rowntree, Operations Director, Tel. (01225) 394567

Background papers

B&NES Performance Plan 2002/3