Issue - meetings

To review the Memorandum of Agreement between South Holland District Council and Breckland Council (report of the Portfolio Holder Governance and Customer and the Deputy Leader is enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Executive Member for Governance and Customer and the Deputy Leader of the Cabinet seeking to review the Memorandum of Agreement between South Holland District Council and Breckland Council.

On 1 April 2011, South Holland District Council and Breckland District Council entered into a Memorandum of Agreement. That document set out the purpose and aims of the shared management arrangements and the terms on which the Councils have agreed to operate the arrangements.  A review of the Agreement took place at the end of 2014 and was subsequently varied on 9 January 2015.

Councillors noted that there had been a number of staffing structure changes since the original Memorandum of Agreement was completed in April 2011 and subsequently varied in January 2015. In some service areas (examples being the Corporate Improvement and Performance Team and the Legal Team) it had been recognised that there can be benefits to sharing posts that are not part of the senior management structure. A key amendment to the Agreement was in recognition of this and other relevant updates.

DECISION:

1)       That the Memorandum of Agreement attached at Appendix 1 to the report and as amended be approved and adopted

2)       That the Terms of Reference of the Joint Appointments and Disciplinary Committee be amended by:

a)     reducing the membership from the current eight members (four from each council) to six members (three from each council).

b)     appointing a pool of six substitutes (three from each council)

c)     amending the quorum to be six members