Issue - meetings

The Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Community Services submitted a report that monitored the delivery against the improvement plan that had been agreed by the Executive in June 2013, in response to the Council’s Peer Challenge and Executive Away day.

Members were reminded that it had been agreed that the plan would be monitored six monthly by Corporate Business Scrutiny Committee for a period of one year.  The 7 outstanding actions were detailed at Essential Reference Paper ‘C’.

In response to a query from Councillor T Page, the Committee was advised that the full Peer Challenge report had been sent to all Members and was also available online on the Councils website.  Councillor M Pope referred to Action 16 and the review of financial and procurement regulations.  Members were advised that a full time Officer appointment would ensure a more strategic approach to procurement also towards financial and procurement regulations.

Members were also advised that the IT Strategy had been delayed and was now due for completion by the end of June 2014, following Public Services Network compliance that had delayed the initial work.  Actions to allow investment in property funds were underway and it was anticipated that investments could be made into funds during August 2014.  The Committee received the report.

RESOLVED – that the monitoring report be received and the outstanding actions be absorbed into 2014/15 Service Plans.