Minutes:
The report was submitted by Cllr. Peredur Jenkins.
DECISION
No. |
Possible cut |
Amount £ |
C2 |
Delete 2 posts
out of 7.5 in the Systems
Support Unit within the Adults
Service |
80,000 |
C3 |
Delete 3 posts
out of 20.6 in the Workforce Support Unit which supports adults and children's services |
90,000 |
C4 |
Delete 2 posts
out of 10.5 in the Workforce Development Unit within the Adults Service |
75,000 |
C5 |
Delete 1 post out of 2.5 within Housing Management and Strategy |
37,500 |
C7 |
Delete 1 post out of 3 in the Information Unit which deals with Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act |
30,000 |
C8 |
Close Frondeg
Pwllheli and Beach Road Felinheli offices but that the Service should be requested to report back to the Cabinet on the business case of scheme C8 (Frondeg) before moving on to realise it to ensure that there are
acceptable solutions to
the needs of those who are currently
there |
60,000 |
C9 |
Delete 1 post out of 8.5 in the Building
Maintenance Unit |
28,000 |
C10 |
Delete 1.5 post out of 7.2 in the Estates and Facilities
Unit |
40,000 |
C11 |
Delete 2 posts
out of 37.62 in the
Finance Units |
50,000 |
C12 |
Stop providing Information
Technology support outside normal working hours |
39,500 |
C13 |
Delete the Gwynedd Trainee scheme and the Professional Trainee scheme |
258,720 |
C14 |
Delete 2 posts
out of 8.8 in the Health and Safety unit |
80,000 |
C15 |
Remodel the Gwynedd and Anglesey partnership due to the changes in the Public Service Boards |
130,000 |
C16 |
Delete the contribution towards the
Gwynedd Environmental Partnership |
7,620 |
C18 |
Delete the budget to support alcohol and drugs misuse |
28,900 |
C19 |
Delete 1 post out of 2 within Project Management |
31,060 |
1 |
Grass cutting
main areas of our towns 6 times a year rather than 8 times however consideration should be given to whether more efficiency savings can be found on Scheme no.
1 (Grass Cutting in Town Centres) by reducing basic
cuts further and asking local
communities to pay if they want a better standard |
120,000 |
2 |
Delete 1 post out of 10.5 in the Joint Planning Policy Unit |
15,000 |
3 |
Reduce 50% of the strategic grants for the arts budget, but to be implemented
on 1 April 2017 in order to give
the Service an opportunity
to discuss its implementation with the organisations supported and seek to attract
assistance from other sources to replace the reduction in grant from the Council |
84,850 |
4 |
Cut 2 posts out of
7 in the Street Enforcement Unit |
64,500 |
5 |
Reduce the opening hours of the Dolgellau archives from 3 days to 2 and Caernarfon archives from 4 to 3 days per week |
41,670 |
6 |
Grass cutting
in 131 children’s playing fields every two months
rather than every month |
60,000 |
8 |
Reduce an
element of the "Gwynedd Ni" budget, focusing on the statutory element |
70,000 |
9 |
Delete 1 post out of 27.7 in the Council Tax Processing
unit |
25,000 |
10 |
Cut 50% of the maintaining promenades, benches and street name
signs budget |
40,000 |
11 |
Stop providing a hard
copy of the ‘Snowdonia Mountains and Coast’ booklet |
46,000 |
12 |
Reduce 50% of the grants given to voluntary organisations for specific projects |
62,500 |
13 |
Stop paying the fee
to pay Council Tax in post offices
|
40,000 |
14 |
Reduce frequency
of grass cutting in the Council’s cemeteries from 7 times per year to 5 |
60,000 |
15 |
Cut 10% on the budget
for purchasing library books |
26,000 |
16 |
Delete 1 post out of 14 in the Building
Control unit |
40,000 |
17 |
Delete a second
post out of 10.5 in the Joint Planning Policy Unit |
15,000 |
19 |
Reduce the time and / or
raise a fee for childcare element within the Free Breakfast scheme in primary schools
|
100,000 |
20 |
Keep the CCTV service but rather than delete the resources which continually monitor it, that the savings should be achieved by seeking
to reduce the Council's contribution and make any operational
changes that can be made without affecting the effectiveness of
the system |
90,000 |
21 |
Delete 1 post out of 2.45 in the Biodiversity unit |
30,000 |
22 |
Reduce 50% of the traffic management budget |
65,000 |
23 |
Delete 20% of the public footpath budget including 1 post out of 7.2 |
110,000 |
25 |
Delete 1 post out of 8.5 in the Pollution Control Unit |
35,000 |
26 |
Delete the Noddfa Centre
grant |
5,000 |
27 |
Delete 1 post out of 13.8 in the Food Hygiene Unit |
36,000 |
28 |
Delete 1 post out of 21.7 in the Council Tax and
Housing Benefit unit |
25,000 |
29 |
Delete the Arfon Community Gang service |
70,000 |
30 |
Cut the highway maintenance
budget (and note that
the amount of the cut was adapted
in accordance with the recommendation in the report) |
850,000 |
31 |
Rather than the original proposal of closing 30 of the 42 Youth Clubs, that the scheme in question
should be changed to realise the savings of £200,000
(along with the expected efficiency saving of £70,000) by redesigning the Youth Service and accepting that the grants to youth organisations will have to be considered as part of the entire review |
200,000 |
32 |
Cease running
the Lloyd George Museum but to be implemented from
1 April 2017 in order to give the Service an opportunity to hold discussions with any organisation
that would wish to take responsibility for the museum |
27,000 |
33 |
Increase the price of primary schools meals from £2.30 to £2.50 (and note the change in the maximum price to be charged) |
105,000 |
37 |
Delete 2 posts
out of 85 in the Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Care Workers Unit within the Adults Service |
80,000 |
38 |
Reduce the frequency of cleaning villages and industrial estates to every 3 months rather than every month and
increase the time to respond to incidents |
130,000 |
39 |
Cut 25% on the budget
for purchasing library books |
39,000 |
40 |
Delete 1 post out of 12 in the Housing Enforcement Unit |
30,000 |
42 |
Reduce 12.4% of the budget of £801,790 paid by the Adults Service to voluntary / charitable |
100,000 |
43 |
Delete 10% of the budget of Derwen Children’s
Service (which employs
19.4) |
75,000 |
44 |
Delete the Healthy Living schemes |
54,050 |
46 |
Delete the budget to maintain Nature Reserves |
59,400 |
47 |
Delete the Community Safety and Domestic Violence project budget |
24,250 |
48 |
Manage Blue flag and Green flag beaches only |
24,200 |
49 |
Delete 1 post out of 7.7 on managing flood risk |
40,000 |
50 |
Delete 1 post out of 7 in the unit which manages grants and adaptations
for the disabled |
30,000 |
51 |
Close 50 out of 73 of the county's public toilets |
244,000 |
52 |
Delete 1 post out of 21 in the multi-agency Youth Justice Service |
25,000 |
53 |
Delete the sports development schemes |
71,180 |
58 |
Close the Council's Tourist Information Centres |
155,000 |
63 |
Delete 1 post out of 7 on road
works management |
30,000 |
65 |
Delete 4 posts
out of 85 in the Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Care Workers Unit within the Adults Service |
80,000 |
71 |
Delete 1 post out of 21.4 in the Homelessness Unit |
25,000 |