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TRCH Creative Learning department has utilised the venue’s forced venue closure to re-focus its priorities for its future development. It will now specialise in key areas, prioritising diversity and inclusion throughout. This will include its heritage learning programme, producing Nottingham Puppet Festival, its RSC partnerships and Third Stage programme. This stronger diversity programme will also enable and create bigger roles for artists within the city to be part of TRCH activity.
TRCH is required to provide significant saving from its staffing establishment to assist the Council in setting a balance budget for 2021/22. Increased channel shift in how people purchase tickets along with developments fast tracked during the Covid 19 epidemic including print at home and e-ticketing, means that TRCH is proposing to make an efficiency saving by altering the hours of operation of its Box Office. The proposal is that the public counter for in-person bookings will change from being open 9am to 8pm Monday to Saturday to instead being open for 1.5 hours prior to any performance including morning and matinee performances.
As a result of the recent budget proposals 2020/21 it is proposed to delete 10 posts and not offer the following in house services; window cleaning, mobile cleaning and PAT testing.
Removal of any work within the control centre which is not a statutory or funded service. This will mean no proactive live monitoring of the public space cameras resulting in a move towards reactive response to calls and playbacks only
In an attempt to offset the current budget position all departments have been required to put forward budget savings. The budget saving that has been put forward by the Regulations department is to reduce the number of staff in Environmental health and Trading Standards, by deleting the vacant posts within the teams.
Libraries are a statutory service. In line with Government guidelines and with the easing of lockdown restrictions from Covid-19, the Library Service has initiated a phased re-opening of the community libraries with a number of measures put in place to ensure the safe operation and use for staff and customers.
As a result of the recent budget proposals 2020/21 it is proposed to delete 14 posts, and integrate 1 post into another team from within the service area’s establishment to meet service requirements
As a result of COVID19 budget proposals 2020/21 it is proposed to delete 11.5 posts which have been over resourced due to merging additional teams within existing Building Services & Facilities Management service provision.
This report sets out the requirements for Nottingham City Council, Building Services team to procure multiple replacement contracts, which end at various months during the financial year 21/22. Working with the central procurement team a programme of procurement has been formulated which included a thorough analysis of the total number of current contracts, which has been reduced by packaging similar works together.
Nottingham City Council currently operates 8 leisure centres across the city with a subsidy level of £3.694 million. Although there has been significant investment in the facilities over recent years and the subsidy levels have been halved, the service has now reached a position where it cannot grow income or reduce expenditure further from operations to match the Councils significant budget savings requirements.
For the financial year 2021/22 a reduction to the City’s Cultural Partners Grant Fund of 37% equating to £107,000 is being proposed. This reduction will be across all granted organisations across the portfolio these being: Nottingham Playhouse; New Art Exchange; Nottingham City Arts; Nottingham Contemporary and UNESCO City of Literature.
Reduce the amount each ward receives in local area grants by 25% in the new financial year April 2021.
Proposed to increase Bin Starter Packs to £35 for 2 x bins - Residual & Recycling and £50 for 3 x bins, Residual, Recycling and Garden (from £20/£35) and increase the cost for one replacement bin from £15 per 240L bin to £20 for delivery of 1 x 240L domestic bin. This will generate a further £20,000 per annum from 21/22.
To support the wider service area in its objectives of making efficiency savings in how neighbourhoods are supported and engaged with, this proposal seeks to align the Neighbourhood Development team to wider partnership boundaries, with the remained focus on place and geographical locations of services and enabling residents to connect to the services they need, and/or deliver services themselves to support their local neighbourhoods.
Reduce the expenditure budget of the Corporate Campaigns.
Energy Services have recently extended their value of a Section 31 Agreement with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), under which they are the accountable body for the Midlands Energy Hub. This extension agreement endorsed acceptance of 100% grant funding totalling £7.5million.
In an attempt to offset the current budget position all departments have been required to put forward budget savings. The budget saving that has been put forward by the Operations department is to reduce the number of officers within the ASB team by 20%; meaning that the actual number of EOs will be reduced by 2.8 – this is on top of the previous reduction in 7 posts from VR1 .
This Proposal is a review to the charges and pricing at the heritage sites which may include changes to the pricing of car parking, and admissions to the site including events and exhibitions taking place.
This is a pre-decision EIA with the detailed consultation on options and proposals due to commence after the agreement on the amount available for future grant schemes. Consultation will include events, and written consultation working with the groups and lead organisations listed below to design a new offer in grant aid.
This proposal will see the removal of the major events budget used to secure and host one-off high profile national and international events along with a redesign of the events programme with a greater focus on working in partnership by generating commercial income and securing funding and sponsorship where this is possible to do so. A range of key Council commissioned events like Light Night, Riverside Festival and Goose Fair will continue to take place.
It is proposed to reduce the Parks & Open Spaces service management structure from 5 Service Managers down to 4, with a redistribution of the current Commercial service amongst the remaining managers.
The aim of this decision is to introduce a £10 fee to collect all waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) commonly known as whitegoods in advance of or by 1st April 2021
This report sets out the requirements for Nottingham City Council, Building Services to introduce a charging mechanism for public conveniences to offset the operating costs of the service. This has been agreed with Portfolio Holder and signed off by at Corporate Leadership Team.
This proposal is to increase Cemetery & Crematorium fees and charges from January 2021.
Nottingham City Council will continue to provide residents one free garden bin (240l bin) for approximately 15 garden waste collections between April and November each year and introduce a charge to residents for any additional garden bin(s) of £25 per bin.t
A library Needs Assessment Research and Consultation programme will take place over the period January – September 2021. The purpose of this research and consultation is to provide a robust evidence base to help develop and support longer-term and sustainable approaches to delivering future library provision in Nottingham City. An independent research company will be engaged to support with the Needs Assessment.
This report sets out the requirements for Nottingham City Council, Building Services to introduce 10% staff reduction of internal cleaning staff to reflect building closure/under occupancy over the 2021/22 period.
The subject of this EIA is the annual review to fees and charges to the public, which will take place in 2018 and additional income generated from new commercial activity being delivered across Sport and Culture services. For details on this EIA please contact the approving manager. Details can be found on the bottom left of the EIA form.
As part of the Council's strategic budget proposals for 2018/19, a proposal has been submitted to make a 150,000 pounds saving linked to the integration of CCTV control rooms across NCC services. The savings will be achieved by integrating the service with other areas of the council, and in sourcing of current services delivered on a contractual basis resulting in more efficient service delivery and use of resources. It is not anticipated that there will be any direct impact upon Citizens and the proposed savings do not involve the deletion of occupied posts.
As part of the Council's strategic budget proposals for 2018/19, a proposal has been submitted to make a 250,000 pounds reduction in cost. This will be achieved through a number of approaches, including: integrating service delivery, increasing income (via selective insourcing of current services), reducing current supply chain costs and more efficient use of resources. It is not anticipated that there will be any direct impact upon Citizens and the proposed savings do not involve the deletion of occupied posts.
A number of proposals within Neighbourhood Services aim to achieve savings through commercial growth, winning contracts, growing market share and driving efficiencies in Service Delivery. Proposals include: Commercial Waste Additional income through winning new contracts and flexible approach to pricing and efficiencies (£0.317m) Car Parking Additional income from Parking Services through increased commercial practices (£0.205) Fleet Management Make savings from the Council's fleet management service through efficiencies and income (£0.2m) Building Cleaning Additional Income through price increases, whilst recognising that over time, market share shrinks (£0.319m) Nottingham Catering Additional Income growth ¿ winning new contracts and further efficiencies from within the service (£0.246m)