- Future Waste Collection Arrangements
5:05pm to 6:05pm
- Maintenance and Costs of the Council's Sports Pitches - Bowling Greens and Cricket Pitches
6:05pm to 6:25pm
Minutes:
The Assistant Director – Commercial Services and the Principal Greenspace Delivery Officer attended to update members on the provision and maintenance of Bowling pitches in the Borough.
It was reported that a review had been undertaken to determine if and how, the Council could reduce the overall amount of subsidies paid to the different clubs in Chesterfield. The review focused on:
· Increasing the amount of effective collaborative work carried out with, and between, the clubs
· Recognising the wider contributions that the sports clubs can make to the health and wellbeing of local communities
· Promoting the use of ‘in-kind’ contributions from the clubs, whereby the reductions in subsidies from the Council can be flexible to ensure the needs of each club are still met
· Aligning the fee structure to the ‘in-kind’ contributions from the clubs
Members were advised of the current spend in subsidies and the breakdown of these across the clubs. It was reported that the ‘in-kind’ contributions could incur a 31 per cent saving on the annual spend in subsidies.
The Committee enquired as to how the Council could support the clubs to improve their membership levels and income positions.
The Assistant Director – Commercial Services advised that additional Council support would ultimately be controlled by resource availability. Areas that the Council could provide support would be around signposting and advertising through corporate groups, as well as promoting the sharing of best practice and skills between the clubs themselves.
The Committee thanked the Assistant Director – Commercial Services and the Principal Greenspace Delivery Officer for providing the update.
The Assistant Director – Commercial Services and the Principal Waste Management Officer provided an update on the Council’s future waste collection options.
Members were made aware that the current waste contract that was awarded to Veolia in October 2011, is set to expire on 1 November 2018, and that the Council has a number of service and delivery options to consider.
Members were shown a range of tables and graphs outlining the residual and recycling waste performance of the Council in comparison with other local authorities in Derbyshire. In 2015/16, Chesterfield had the fourth highest recycling rate and the second lowest average household residual waste of the 9 authorities considered.
The Council, in partnership with High Peak Borough Council and Derbyshire Dales District Council, had successfully bid to commission the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to carry out free consultancy work to review current waste collection services, and look at potential future options and the impact(s) these may have. This has since become a Derbyshire-wide piece of work.
The potential service options that WRAP looked at were:
· Maintaining the current service and operations
· Enhancing the recycling offer (dry and organic recyclate)
· Moving to three-weekly residual waste bin collections
· Replacing the current 240 litre residual waste bins with 140 litre bins
· Charging for green waste collections
The Assistant Director – Commercial Services also outlined the potential future delivery options available to the Council, which included:
· Opting in to a contract extension with Veolia for another 7 year period, or for a shorter 18 month period
· Procuring a new contract
· Procuring a new contract in partnership with other local authorities
· Sharing services with other local authorities
· Insourcing
Members enquired as to whether the Council had received specific performance-related information from Veolia about the different collection routes and areas in the Borough, and how the Council planned to improve its overall waste and recycling performance.
The Assistant Director – Commercial Services advised that this information had been received, but that similar information would help to advise the service of any particular areas in the Borough where additional efforts to increase the education and awareness of recycling could be focused.
It was emphasised that efforts would be made to try to improve the education and awareness of recycling across the Borough, within the resource capacity of the service.
The Assistant Director – Commercial Services and Principle Waste Management Officer were thanked for providing the update.
RESOLVED –
That the updates be noted.