To update Cabinet on the review of Asset Management and Property Services and to propose alignment of the work with the emerging Shared Services activity.

THAT:

            (a)        the contents of the report be noted; and

(b)               Cabinet agree that, pending the outcome of the work on Shared Services, the Asset Management and Property Services Division continues to explore service improvements.

1.1                    In September 2008, Cabinet decided there should be a service review of the Asset Management & Property Services (AMPS) Division of the Resources Directorate.  This decision came about as one of the outcomes of the Council’s Service Delivery Review of Contract and Technical Consultancy Services provided by Amey plc.  Whereas it was considered appropriate to proceed with the integration of the Council’s and Amey’s Highways Services to form a single delivery vehicle, it was suggested that any decision to consider this vehicle for some element of Operational Property Services be set aside pending the outcome of a review of the Council’s property estate. 

1.2                    The Cabinet resolution of 11 September stated that “Asset Management and Property Services be excluded from the negotiation whilst a wider review of the property estate and its management is carried out and that this is completed by the end of March 2009”.

1.3                    The 2007 Review of AMPS which was approved by Cabinet in February 2007 set out the operating structure, functional scope and terms of reference for the then new AMPS Division.  The procedures established in that Review for the management of corporate property assets were formally incorporated into the July 2008 version of the Herefordshire Constitution.  These procedures form the basis upon which the service is managed.

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