Review of Corporate Subscriptions
To consider the report of the Director of Resources, (copy enclosed).
Minutes:
The Council considered the report of the Director of Resources seeking Members’ endorsement to continue or seek termination of the Council’s involvement in organisations with which the Council had corporate subscriptions.
The report provided a list of external partnership organisations to which the Council had corporate subscriptions. Members were advised of the need to review these organisation memberships and the report detailed further information regarding each of the external partnership organisations.
The Leader of the Council proposed that recommendation (i) be agreed. He then proposed that recommendation (ii) be agreed on the understanding that Officers bring forward a value for money analysis of what the Council was getting from the memberships and what the organisations provided for the Council. This was duly seconded.
In response to comments and questions raised the Director of Resources provided Members with further information.
The Chairman then put the proposal in the name of the Leader of the Council to the Council and this was agreed.
RESOLVED
(i) That the corporate subscription with the Haven Gateway Partnership be terminated.
(ii) That corporate subscriptions with the external partnership organisations as set out in the report be maintained but are subject to further and more detailed review by 31 December 2019, results of which are to be reported to the Council and considered as part of the 2020 / 21 Budget Setting Process:
(iii) That a value for money analysis be carried out in respect of all external partnership organisation memberships and reported to the Council.