Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environment & Transport setting out proposals for addressing required improvements to the Council’s CCTV System and proposing variations to the Medium Term Plan to enable the improvements to be taken forward.

The establishment of the post of CCTV and Emergency Planning Team Leader and the release of funds from the MTP to facilitate this was approved.

The addition of two CCTV operators to the establishment was approved and the principal was accepted that once recruitment has taken place the associated funding in the draft MTP will become unavoidable.

Scheme 03/384 was deleted from the MTP.

The replacement of cameras that have exceeded their useful life and the release of £98,000 in 2004/05 and £7,000 in 2005/06 from MTP 03/020 were approved.

The Head of Environment and Transport was authorised to procure a contract for the maintenance of the CCTV system and to include the camera replacements the contract.

The Cabinet gave consideration to a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) on the management and operation of the Council’s CCTV service.  Having reviewed the recommendations for the service, the staffing implications of which had been approved the previous day by the Employment Panel, it was

RESOLVED

  (a)that the release of funding for a CCTV and Emergency Planning Team Leader and two additional CCTV operators be approved;

  (b)that the Cabinet acknowledge that once the two additional CCTV operators have been recruited the associated funding in the draft MTP will become unavoidable;

  (c)that scheme 03/384 be deleted from the MTP;

  (d)that the replacement of cameras that have exceeded their useful life as set out in paragraph 5.2 of the report now submitted and the release of £98,000 in 2004/05 and £7,000 in 2005/06 from MTP scheme 03/020 be approved; and

  (e)that the Head of Environment and Transport be authorised to procure a contract for maintenance of the CCTV system as set out in paragraph 6.4 of the report now submitted and to include the camera replacements in the contract.