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Agenda item
Agreeing the Delivery Model for the next Hastings Street Cleansing Service
- Meeting of Charity Committee, Monday, 25th June, 2018 6.00 pm (Item 43.)
- View the background to item 43.
Minutes:
The Assistant Director, Environment & Place, presented a report to provide the Charity Committee with comprehensive background information to the recommissioning of the Council’s beach, foreshore and street cleansing services, and seek their approval to proceed with the preferred service delivery model as set out in the associated part two confidential report.
EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC
RESOLVED that the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the items of business listed below because it is likely that, if members of the public were present, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 referred to in the relevant report
Councillor Batsford proposed a motion for the exclusion of the public from the meeting, this was seconded by Councillor Rogers.
The Assistant Director, Environment & Place, presented this report to provide the Charity Committee with the results of an exercise to determine the most appropriate way of providing the next Hastings beach, foreshore and street cleansing service, and secondly to seek approval to proceed with the recommended service delivery model when the existing contract ends in June 2019.
Councillor Rogersproposedapproval of the report, which was seconded by Councillor Batsford.
RESOLVED(unanimously)that:
1. Endorse the conclusion set out in this report and the Council’s next beach, foreshore and street cleansing service should be delivered through a new in-house service operated by the Council.
2. Agree that from June 29th 2019 the new in-house service will provide cleansing services to the Foreshore Trust, and that the Foreshore Trust will continue to pay the Council for the proportion of the overall service costs associated with the Foreshore Trust land.
Thereason forthis decision:
The existing waste services contract with Kier Environmental provided through the East Sussex Joint Waste Partnership ends on 28th June 2019. New arrangements must be in place ready to commence on 29th June 2019, to ensure a seamless transition for residents.
Since the formation of the Foreshore Trust cleansing of their land has been carried out by the Council’s waste services contractor, and recharged to the Foreshore Trust. The Foreshore Trust is therefore included during the recommissioning of these important services.
Although the Council is committed to continue to provide our refuse and recycling and garden waste collection services through a contracted out service delivery model, we are considering whether to deliver our street cleansing, bulky waste and fly-tip removal services through an in-house direct service organization. Officers have developed a fully priced in-house option for these services. However, to enable us to assess whether or not an in-house service represents ‘best value’, prices and methodologies for a contracted out service have bene requested through the East Sussex Joint Waste Partnership procurement team.
Priced bids for a stand-alone Hastings street cleansing contract should be available for consideration the week commencing 18th June. To enable the procurement and mobilization processes to proceed in a timely fashion, the council is required to reach a decision on whether or not to opt for an in-house or contracted out service by no later than Friday, 20th July 2018.
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