Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environment and Transport on the progress of the Waste Private Finance Initiative.

The decision not to include the District Council’s waste collection services within the proposed PFI arrangement was endorsed.

The Director of Operational Services, after consultation with the Leader of the Council on any textual changes, was authorised to sign the Statement of Understanding appended to the report now submitted on behalf of the Council.

(Councillors I C Bates and R L Clarke declared personal interests in the following item as Members of Cambridgeshire County Council and remained in the meeting for the duration of the discussion and voting thereon).

The Cabinet gave consideration to a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) containing an update on progress made by the waste disposal and collection authorities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough towards delivering the Joint Municipal Waste Strategy.  In the absence of evidence that the inclusion of the Council’s waste collection services would produce service quality or financial benefits, it had been decided not to include those services in the PFI contract.  However, in order to safeguard the Council’s position, arrangements were to be made to produce a Statement of Understanding with the County Council for waste disposal and recycling, the terms of which were appended to the report.  Accordingly, it was

RESOLVED

  (a)that the decision not to include the District Council’s waste collection services within the proposed PFI arrangement be endorsed; and

  (b)that the Director of Operational Services, after consultation with the Leader of the Council on any textual changes, be authorised to sign the Statement of Understanding on behalf of the Council in relation to the partnership roles of collection and disposal authorities.