Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance, (copy enclosed).

The Council considered the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance seeking Members’ approval of the three Thematic Strategies, which would underpin the delivery of the Council Corporate Plan, for adoption as Council Polices.  The Strategies of Place, Community and Prosperity were attached as Appendices to the report.

Each strategy outlined the key priorities and identified the projects and strategies that would be developed to deliver the Council’s priorities.  It was noted that the Strategies Engagement Member Task and Finish Working Group had considered the Thematic Strategies and provide advice and input regarding them and performance measures. 

The Leader of the Council thanked Ms Georgina Button, Strategy, Policy and Communications Manager for the enormous amount of work that she and her team had put into these documents.  The Leader advised Members that the delivery date set by the Council had been rather ambitious and he wished to move a motion in relation to the report and its appendices. 

The Leader then proposed that Appendices A – C (the Thematic Strategies) be further reviewed and to enable the work to be carried out as expediently as possible a Member Led Working Group be formed comprising of seven Members.  He then proposed that Councillors E L Bamford, Mrs P A Channer CC, Mrs J L Fleming, A S Fluker, M W Helm, R H Siddall and Mrs M E Thompson be appointed onto this Working Group and a report on the Thematic Strategies be brought back to the Council as a matter of urgency as this was a very important area.  This proposal was duly seconded and agreed.

RESOLVED

(i)                 That the three Thematic Strategies (Appendices A – C of the report) be further reviewed by a Member Led Working Group be formed comprising of E L Bamford, Mrs P A Channer CC, Mrs J L Fleming, A S Fluker, M W Helm, R H Siddall and Mrs M E Thompson;

(ii)               That once the review has taken place a report on the Thematic Strategies be brought back to the Council as a matter of urgency.