Venue: This will be a virtual, online meeting.
Contact: Candida Mckelvey, Democratic Services Officer
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Apologies for absence Minutes: No apologies were received from committee members. Chair noted that Council Leader, Councillor David Rouane had wished to attend, but was unable to due to an urgent meeting, and he sent his apologies. |
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Declarations of interest To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.
Minutes: None. |
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Urgent business and chair's announcements To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair. Minutes: Chair updated the committee on the progress of the joint pollution task and finish group. It was going ahead but there was a slight delay to progress at present. |
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To note the draft committee minutes of the meeting held on 7 February 2022. Minutes: No comments were raised on the minutes of the meeting of 7 February 2022. |
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Work schedule and dates for all South and Vale scrutiny meetings PDF 163 KB To review the attached scrutiny work schedule. Please note, although some dates are confirmed, the items under consideration are subject to being withdrawn, added to or rearranged without further notice.
Minutes: The work programme was fluid and had provisional dates in place that would be confirmed at the chair’s review. |
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Public participation To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. Minutes: None. |
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Quarter 3 Corporate Plan performance monitoring report PDF 2 MB To note the report of the Head of Policy and Programmes, and to provide any comments to the Cabinet member for corporate services. Report to follow. Minutes: Cabinet Member for corporate services introduced the quarter three report. Cabinet Member commented that the reporting process was scrutinised in order to check whether it would be onerous, but the Cabinet Member was satisfied now that the reporting was not an unnecessary burden to officers and was a useful process that did not impede action on projects. The reporting helps us to begin recognising trends and make improvements. Some areas were identified as annual measures for reporting, so there was not much to report on a quarterly basis.
Comments raised about the Corporate Plan quarter three report:
A separate note (not regarding the report) was made regarding business rates retention scheme and how this information was publicised. Chair to look into this with officers.
Cabinet member would take these comments away for consideration and those involved in the production of the report where thanked.
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Communications and engagement strategy PDF 233 KB To note the report of the Deputy Chief Executive – Transformation and Operations and provide any comments to the Cabinet member for community engagement. Report to follow.
Additional documents: Minutes: Cabinet Member for corporate services introduced the communications and engagement strategy. It was a joint proposal with VOWH. It had been created to pull together all the strands of communication and line up with corporate priorities, with continuous improvement in mind, ensuring we effectively communicate. We needed to set some key performance indicators (KPI). Live up to our slogan of being a listening, learning and leading council. This strategy would sit together with other key strategies to help achieve our priorities for the district.
Comments raised were:
In summary, the main actions to note were to improve the vision statement, and to bring the press and media protocol to scrutiny at a future date.
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