Decisions

The Director of City Development has declared the land at Swarcliffe Avenue/Brayton Green surplus to the Council's requirements and approved the terms for its sale.

The Director of Adult Social Services recommended the approval of the waiver of Contracts Procedure Rules 8.1 and 8.2 using the authority set out in CPR 1.3 to award the following contracts to Leeds Jewish Welfare Board.

The contracts shall commence on 1st October 2015 and expire on 30th September 2018 with the option to extend for a further three (3) twelve (12) month periods.

A Commissioning Officer will oversee implementation of this contract, subject to approval, from 1st October 2015 and will maintain close monitoring of the delivered services.

The Chief Planning Officer has:

Authorised the designation of the Hyde Park Neighbourhood Forum pursuant to Section 61F (5) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

The Chief Officer of Property and Contracts agreed to approve the award of a new contract to Denton & Nichols to replace the existing Heat meters within 9 high rise blocks at Ebor and Saxton Gardens.

The Chief Officer, Partnership Development & Business Support agreed to vary existing contracts with Health for All to enable them to incorporate the work emerging from the emerging early use of family group conferencing. To waiver CPR 8.1 and 8.2 to award contracts to Homestart, Barca and Women's Health Matters and waiver CPR 9.1 and 9.2 to award contracts to LCH.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to Write off of 6956 parking penalties issued in the period 1.3.05 – 31.3.10 which are no longer legally recoverable.

The Chief Officer, Access & Care Delivery approved the contents of a report regarding a care plan in respect of a person with complex care needs, the individual cost of which is £139,059 per annum.

It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable citizen of the City and the actions being taken to enable that person to live independently in a safe environment.

The Director of Environment and Housing agrees to approve the proposed novation from Jewson Ltd to sister company Gibbs & Dandy Ltd.

The Director of City Development has approved terms to release the covenants on the land on which St. Margaret's Vicarage has been built to enable this house to be sold on the open market.

The Chief Officer Housing Management agreed to approve the award of the contract to the preferred bidder Orbit Services 2000 Limited to deliver Rent Collection Training. The contract will commence September 2015 and complete December 2015 for a total value of £50, 320.00.

Appendix 1 to this report has been marked as confidential under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4 (3) on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) which, if disclosed to the public, would, or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of that person or of the Council.

The Director Of Environment & Housing gave approval to recruit additional staff (3 x officers plus a concierge team) at a cost of £279k to support the implementation of the Clydes/Wortley MSF Project . The details are in the report titled as above

The Director of Environment and Housing is agreed to approve the write off irrecoverable Former Tenants Arrears in the sum of £177,119.63 represented by 321 accounts and a credit amount of £1116.39 represented by 24 accounts (total £176,003.24 offset by credit) in relation to the citywide accounts.

The Chief Officer of Property and Contracts for Housing Leeds approves the award of contract and the contract documentation for the Managed Stores from 1 April 2015.

The Chief Officer Culture and Sport has approved the awarding of a waiver for the servicing of cardio vascular and strength equipment
• the use of authority set out in Contract Procedure Rule (CPR) 1.3 to waive Contracts Procedure Rules 9.1 and 9.2 to enable award of the services contract to Amazon Leisure until April 2016 with the option to extend for an additional 2 years to the sum of £170,000.00.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed the regrading of Senior Occupational Therapist posts with a full year cost of £5,360 to E&H Directorate

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to the creation of one additional pest control technician post

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation)
i. Made an order to vary the existing Leeds City Council Permit Scheme on the 1st October 2015.
ii. Approved the level of discount of 30% of the permit fee for works undertaken wholly outside traffic sensitive times; and
iii. Approved the level of the fees for short duration major works.

Approval has been given to declare the subject property surplus to the requirements of the Council and to dispose of it by way of public auction with the reserve price to be agreed by the Head of Land and Property. Failing this a one to one sale with the existing tenant or any eventual purchaser of their business is approved on terms to be negotiated and approved by the Head of Land and Property.

The Director of City Development has given approval to offer Hunslet Gate former pupil referral centre at Sussex Road, Hunslet, for sale on the open market, initially inviting expressions of interest and then offers by a closing date.

The Director of Adult Social Services approved the BCF Partnership Agreement and the recommendation to become a signatory to the agreement on behalf of Leeds City Council.

The Director of Adult Social Services approved the recommendation to incorporate Leeds City Council’s existing funding contributions for the Leeds Community Equipment Service and the South Leeds Independence Centre within Fund 2 of the Better Care Fund.

The Director of Adult Social Services approved the recommendation of the waiver of CPRs 8.1 and 8.2 using the authority set out in CPR 1.3 to award a contract to Leeds Beckett University for the provision of CPD training (as set out in Appendix 1), in the sum of £14,400.

The contract shall commence at the beginning of the academic year on 21 September 2015 and expire on the 16 September 2018, with an option to review after 18 months. The Senior HR Officer Organisational Development, Adult Social Care shall be responsible for implementation.

The Director of Environment & Housing agreed to approve the rehousing of tenants at this scheme in alternative suitable housing on a permanent or temporary basis dependent on individual tenants choice

The Deputy Director, Learning approved the waiver of the relevant Contracts Procedure Rule(s) 27.2 and specifically:
Contracts Procedure Rule No. 3.1.1 - Category Plan and approved budget, in order to facilitate award for 12 months, plus the option to extend for two further periods of 12 months each.
The Deputy Director, Learning also agreed agreed to award an initial 12 month contract to the NCT, with the option to extend the contract for up to two further periods of 12 months each.

On 27th July 2011, Executive Board approved an unsupported borrowing scheme up to £3.01m to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems onto corporate buildings (above Executive Board meeting, minute: 54), and delegated powers to the Director of Resources to authorise the spend, of which £1.38m remains available. Three new PFI leisure centres have met the approval of the Director of City Development on their suitability for PV installation, allowing further detailed building surveys to deliver the final business case. Approval is now required by the Director of Resources on the basis of this business case, to authorise the spend for the 3 proposed solar PV installations at Armley Leisure Centre, Morley Leisure Centre, and Holt Park Active.
Under the terms of the PFI contract the Council has to request any such changes to these facilities through the PFI Contractor, therefore alternative procurement routes were not considered. Accompanying this DDN are the building specific financial models passed by Financial Performance Group, and the combined business case report.

On 27th July 2011, Executive Board approved an unsupported borrowing scheme up to £3.01m to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems onto corporate buildings (above Executive Board meeting, minute: 54), and delegated powers to the Director of Resources to authorise spend, of which £1.38m remains today. Selected corporate buildings have met the approval of the Director of City Development on their suitability for PV installation, allowing further detailed building surveys and development of final site business cases. Approval is now required by the Director of Resources on the basis of these business cases to authorise the spend for each of the proposed solar PV installations:
Middleton Park Highways Annex Building, Adel Beck Secure Children Home, St. George Centre OSC, & Tech North.
Supporting documents accompanying this DDN are the building specific financial models passed by Financial Strategy Group, and the combined business case report incorporating a progress summary for the 4 selected buildings.

The Head of Asset Management has accepted to list The Crown Hotel, 128 High Street, Boston Spa, Leeds LS23 6BW to the List of Assets of Community Value on the basis that the nomination satisfactorily meets the criteria laid down in the Localism Act 2011.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to approve the regrading of 5 Workshop Fitter Posts to grade C1 and the regrading of the Chargehand Fitter Post to grade C3 and the change of Fitter to Technician to more accurately reflect the job role.

The key health and social care providers in Leeds (Public Health Leeds City
Council, Leeds Community Health Care Trust (LCHT) and Leeds and York
Partnership Foundation Trust (LYPFT)) have been working together with Health Education England (HEE) to develop health coaching as an approach to improve self-care and management within the health and care system in Leeds. ln order to become accredited health coach trainiers, the LCC Public Health Specialists need to work with an experienced trainer from The Performance Coach (TPC) to deliver 2 day health coaching training sessions across the Leeds health and social area system. Once the trainers have completed this final stage, they will be able to deliver the health coaching course themselves without the need for an external provider. This should deliver value for money and improve the approach to health and social care in Leeds.

The request to waiver CPRs is required as TPC are the only provider of the
European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) accredited Train the
Trainer Health Coaching course. An accredited course is essential as it
provides an internationally recognised bench mark of competency for this whole system approach to health coaching. The total cost of this training is Ê26,600 and it involves 5 training sessions (10 days in total) and course materials. The training will start as soon as possible after the approval of this decision and is likely to take place in Autumn 2015.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to the process of utilising sheltered guest rooms for older people presenting as homeless. To be piloted at Queensview, Seacroft and Burnsall Court, Armley (both self-contained flats) for a 6 month period with a feedback report in February 2016 to assess suitability and sustainability of the project

The Chief Officer Civic Enterprise Leeds approved the award of 200 call-off contracts as detailed in appendix A, for home to school / day services transport, from 7th September 2015.

The Head of Governance Services is asked to approve the following appointments:
1. Communities Board – Cllr Coupar to replace Cllr P Gruen
2. Aire Valley Regeneration Board – Cllr Groves to replace whips nominee (Middleton Park Ward Member)
3. Kirkgate Market Management Board – Cllr B Anderson to replace Cllr Cohen

Amendment to Scrutiny Board Procedure Rule 11.21 (foot note19) to reinstate actions to be taken by the Scrutiny Officer following a request for Scrutiny. This amendment is for clarification purposes.

The Deputy Director of Children's Services approved the waiver of the following Contracts Procedure Rule(s):
Contracts Procedure Rules No 8.1 and 8.2 - Intermediate value procurements
Contracts Procedure Rule No 3.1.15 - Requirement to use the council's standard tender documents and award a contract to UCAS Progress in the sum of £12,500. The contract shall commence on the 31st September 2015 and expire on the 31st September 2018 (with the option to extend for a period of 12 months, such option not to be taken up more than twice). The maximum contract value is £62,500.