Mrs Angela Woodhouse, Head of Policy Communications and Governance presented the report and drew Members’ attention to the urgent update which included the comments from service committees on the KPIs in their areas.  It was noted that Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee had not considered their KPIs.

The Committee suggested a number of possible amendments to how KPI reporting was carried out, including decreasing the number of indicators, adding additional indicators, reporting by exception, weighting indicators by impact, and taking a strategic view of indicators important to the Committee recognising that each service Committee could raise concerns with their own indicators if they wished.

Concerns were raised around the prevalence of graffiti and the Committee recommended that Communities, Housing and Environment Committee consider a suitable performance indicator for monitoring the Council’s effectiveness in dealing with graffiti.

RESOLVED:That

1.  Officers bring forward recommendations on a small number of Strategic KPIs to June meeting of the Committee, and other KPIs that have been identified by other service committees by exception; and

2.  The Communities, Housing and Environment Committee be requested to consider whether a performance indicator for graffiti was appropriate

Voting: Unanimous

Note: Cllr Mrs Blackmore arrived during consideration of the item.