Role:

• To lead on environment and infrastructure, to ensure a clean and green borough for the benefit of residents.
• To build a detailed knowledge of environment and infrastructure services and developments and to advise the Mayor on performance and strategies in these areas.
• To lead on the development of a robust leisure, sport and culture offer, to include maintenance of the borough’s arts and cultural heritage.
• To work with, and deputise for, the Cabinet Member for Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour as needed in order to promote a robust enforcement function across the council.

To take specific responsibility for the following key areas:

1. Infrastructure:

• Streets – including transport, highways and public footways, streetscene, street furniture and signage
• Parks and open spaces – maintenance and development
• Community Centres and Community Assets
• Youth Centres
• Infrastructure relating to the leisure, sport and culture offer, excluding leisure centres.
• Markets

2. All aspects of enforcement against:

• Graffiti
• Vandalism
• Flyposting
• Parking

3. Maintenance and development of infrastructure services:

• Parking
• Street cleansing
• Waste management
• Recycling

Priorities:

• To ensure significant improvements in the following service areas:

• To lead on improvements of markets, particularly in relation to environment and transport issues.
• To ensure that community assets are used effectively and for the interests of residents.

Regular activities:

The following is a list of regular activities for all Cabinet Members.

• To monitor workload and performance against targets in agreement with the Mayor and to provide regular activity updates to the Mayor.

• To communicate with officers by mutually agreed methods to ensure timely and appropriate political direction.

• To work with the Community Executive and Community Lead Councillors to ensure an understanding of community views and to ensure that they are represented in this portfolio remit.

• To speak at conferences and events as appropriate.

• To attend scrutiny commissions as necessary to inform on appropriate policies and activities and advise the Mayor on specific responses as and when necessary.

• To ensure full answers are given to all appropriate questions to Council/the Mayor is able to respond on all reports to Cabinet/Mayoral proceedings.

February 2012.