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General
Question – |
Under Standing Order 14,
“This question is with reference to the Executive
decision of 15 January 2008 that a Leader's task group be set up to work with
officers on the draft specification of the Grounds Maintenance Contract. Given that the Liberal Democrat group has
been denied the opportunity to participate in the drafting process on both the
Leader's task group and the scrutiny task group, will the Leader please give
an update on the draft specification of the Grounds Maintenance
Contract. Have all the milestones for week 22 of the project been
met?”
Councillor
“Thank you
for your question Councillor Nichols.
You may not
be aware that the Executive also received a report on 12 February 2008 with an
updated Gantt chart, which updates that of 15 January 2008.
In reference
to week 22 of the revised schedule, we are about two weeks behind, but we have
a leeway of about five weeks built in to the schedule, which will enable us to
catch up. The reason for the delay is
that officers have, as I am sure you are aware, successfully taken on the
highway verge maintenance from Surrey County Council. This work had been anticipated to start on 21
January 2008 but couldn’t start, for logistical reasons, until mid March
2008. A new schedule is being finalised
and will be presented to future working groups.”
In accordance with Standing Order
14.2, Councillor Mrs C.E. Nichols asked the following supplementary question:
“Could we
have an early Seminar on the outcomes, so that all Members can have the
opportunity to feed into the process?”
The Portfolio Holder for Children
and Young People Services, Councillor Mrs D.L. Grant, responded as follows:
“I will keep
this in mind if assistance is needed. However, at the moment all boxes have
been ticked.”