Today is a good day. England have bowled out the Aussies for 245 and are 1 without loss at stumps on day 1. Smiles all round. It was a long cold night...
Earlier this week I attended the Scrutiny Management Liaison Committee chaired by Cllr Jeff Osborne. This is the coordinating group for the four formal scrutiny select committees. We discussed and agreed on-going scrutiny arrangements for our procurement, performance and budget work moving forward.
Our procurement programme to identify and deliver £9 million of cash savings in 2011-12 is going well and is on track. We have reviewed our plans and results this week to confirm our confidence in achieving this figure through a combination of re-procurements, direct negotiations with our top suppliers (quick wins) and an additional phase of re-procurements due to commence part way through 11-12. Well done to all those in the team and across the organisation, working so hard to achieve this.
On Wednesday we held an asset management workshop with colleagues from the private sector. It was experimental in nature where we started to look at how assets might be managed in the context of "big society" and increased community engagement. We're not sure where this work will lead but we have to explore new and innovative ways to deliver our work in times of reducing budgets. Exciting stuff and I'll keep you posted on progress.
Thanks for reading and speak again next week.
Carlton
Friday, 3 December 2010
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