Issue - meetings

The HRC Service is not only business critical but a legal duty to undertake. This

report seeks to ensure the Council makes decisions enabling the continuity of that

duty. An options appraisal has been undertaken and considered a high level

assessment of the benefits/risks associated with providing the HRC service,

including betterment and policy changes, as a result an outsourced contract with a

third party provider compared to an in-house service is the recommended option.

RESOLVED:

Recommendations:

1. To agree to proceed with Option C and to carry out a procurement process for the

provision of a Household Recycling Centre service.

2. That authority be delegated to the Service Director for Neighbourhood Services,

following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment, to take all

necessary actions to agree the procurement strategy for the future Household

Recycling Centre Service contract.

Martin Tett advised that this item would be in two parts; an introduction for the public and a private session to discuss the options.

Bill Chapple, OBE, Cabinet Member for the Environment introduced the report which was being brought before the Cabinet to seek a decision on the options for service delivery of the household recycling centre (HRC) service from April 2022.  Changes were made to the service in April 2019 and customer satisfaction had remained high at 98 percent.  The current operational contract had been extended and could not be legally extended any further. 

There were no questions from the Cabinet and the meeting went into confidential session.

Following the confidential discussion the Leader advised that the members of the Cabinet had held a robust discussion.  Warren Whyte stated that he supported the recommendation and stressed that the Buckingham HRC site covered a large area and was a small site but received very few complaints.  W Whyte also highlighted Table 4: Betterment and policy change options for the HRC Service, and welcomed the detailed work and betterment options paper which would cover the whole county and be provided at a later date.

RESOLVED:  Cabinet AGREED to proceed with Option C and to carry out a procurement process for the provision of a Household Recycling Centre service.  Cabinet AGREED that authority be delegated to the Service Director for Neighbourhood Services, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment, to take all necessary actions to agree the procurement strategy for the future Household Recycling Centre Service contract.