Issue - meetings

The Executive Member for Financial Sustainability submitted an update report regarding progress towards the 4 SEED themes set out in the Council’s Corporate Plan.

The Chairman said that emailed answers would be forwarded to Members in the absence of the Executive Member for Corporate Services. The Scrutiny Officer said that she would email responses from the Executive Members to Overview and Scrutiny Members.

Councillor Goldspink said that she was happy to support the noting of the report. She asked for a list of the acronyms in future as she had struggled to find the meaning of some of these in the papers.

Councillor Curtis said that the wording “digital be default” corporate priority when this should have read “digital by design” as per the SEED acronym. He made a general comment about the completion of actions and said that Overview and Scrutiny Committee had not had the opportunity to review these actions.

Councillor Curtis referred to fibre broadband direct to new developments. He commented that this would be in place for the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town and he asked whether there was any clarity as to whether this would be provided for other developments.

The Chairman said that he would ask Officers to circulate some written responses to Members which would include the matter of contracts and overdue reports. He said that Members could email specific queries to Executive Members.

The Head of Legal and Democratic Services clarified that the wording of “digital be design” had now been changed to “digital by default”. Councillor Devonshire asked a question about the Millstream Property Investment Business Plan and the wording in respect of purchasing properties. He sought and was provided with clarity on this issue.  Councillor Bell said that she believed that the Council already owned the land in Watton at Stone.

Members received the report.

RESOLVED – that the update report be noted.