Issue - items at meetings - Inter Authority Agreement (IAA)-Joint Waste Committee

Report of the Cabinet Member Sustainability

RESOLVED THAT

a) the financial arrangements as set out in paragraph 3.1 of this report be approved

b) Subject to (a) above the Cabinet decision on 15 November 2011 be reaffirmed as follows:

· agree to establish the Gloucestershire Joint Waste Committee (GJWC) in accordance with Sections101and 102 of the Local Government Act 1972, and the Local Authorities (Arrangement for the Discharge of Functions)(England)(Amendment) Regulations 2001 made under Section 20 of the Local Government Act 2000;

· delegate to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Cabinet Member Sustainability, s151 Officer and the Borough Solicitor authority to finalise and complete the Inter Authority Agreement (including the Constitution), including but not limited to the delegation arrangement for enforcement, the year one Business Plan and other documentation and to take all necessary steps to create the GWJC by April 2013;

· agree that the existing Shadow Joint Waste Board and Programme Board arrangements will persist until the end of March 2013 to oversee this process.

Upon the establishment of the GJWC:

· delegate to the GJWC of this Council’s functions in relation to the collection, management, disposal treatment, or recycling of waste and street cleansing described in detail in paragraph 4.1 of the 15^th November 2011 Cabinet report but subject to the retained decisions as set out in paragraph 4.2 of the said report and as revised in the current inter-authority agreement at section 3.2;

· appoint Gloucestershire County Council as Administering Authority

· appoint Cllr Roger Whyborn and Cllr Steve Jordan to the GJWC.

The Cabinet Member Sustainability introduced the report and explained that the establishment of a joint waste committee had been a long process. Doing things jointly with other councils created economies of scale. Initially three districts-Forest of Dean, Cotswold and CBC would be involved together with the county council but interest had also been expressed by Tewkesbury. StroudDC and GloucesterCity were still tied to contracts with suppliers but were keeping a watching brief via the Gloucestershire Waste Partnership meetings.

The Cabinet Member Sustainability explained that the joint committee approach could achieve several million pounds worth of savings in the longer term. A significant amount had already been achieved via the formation of Ubico but CBC would still benefit from a single system for waste collection and disposal which could raise £100 k of savings for each authority for the first three years. The aim was ultimately to have a joined up countywide system.

The Cabinet Member Sustainability reported that certain decisions and functions would be retained by the districts, namely the design of the service, budgets and charges and enforcement. Officer time would be ringfenced. All other parties have agreed to go forward with the arrangement being implemented in April 2013.

The Leader of the Council acknowledged that it had been a long process and the establishment of Ubico had happened at the same time. He wished to put on record his thanks to the Cabinet Member and relevant officers.