Decision details

Operation and Management of Household Waste Recycling Centres

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The purpose of this report is to set out the plan of actions to deliver an existing budget saving agreed as part of the 2021-22 Medium Term Financial Plan (“MTFP”), and to seek the necessary approvals to commence implementation in advance of the financial year 2023-24.
The report also seeks approvals to commence consultation in relation to the implementation of the above budget saving. The proposed consultation will also seek resident input on additional savings proposals that have not been formally adopted at this time.

Decision:

RESOLVED to:

 

1)    Approve a spend of up to £20,000 from the current Resources and Waste reserve and up to £180,000 from an existing waste capital project (subject to approval of the next quarterly capital monitoring report) to install Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems, back-office integrations and customer facing web portal and the addition of this project to the 2022/23 Capital Programme; and

 

2)    Agree to conduct a public consultation in relation to the implementation of the existing budget saving and budget saving options put forward as part of the 2023-24 budget setting process. Namely: charging for usage of HWRC’s by non-residents, limiting the materials accepted on-site and reducing the opening hours of HWRCs.

Report author: Daniel Ayrton

Publication date: 27/07/2023

Date of decision: 27/07/2023

Decided at meeting: 27/07/2023 - Cabinet

Effective from: 04/08/2023

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