Issue - meetings

To establish a Joint Scrutiny Task Group and agree the associated scope to undertake the annual scrutiny review of the South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership (report of the Assistant Director – Corporate enclosed)

Consideration was given to the report of the Assistant Director – Corporate which sought to establish a Joint Scrutiny Task Group and agree the associated scope to undertake the annual scrutiny review of the South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership.

The report was introduced by the Assistant Director – Strategic Growth and Development on behalf of the Scrutiny & Policy Officer and stated that annual joint scrutiny was agreed in the Memorandum of Agreement when the Partnership was formed. The purpose was to review progress of the Partnership, to understand its effectiveness and identify opportunities for further development.

Appendix A set out the scope of scrutiny which needed to be agreed by the Panel. The Panel also needed to agree to the appointment of one member from the Performance Monitoring Panel to join the Task Group alongside the Chairman and Vice Chairman of PMP.

The Chairman stated that he had been part of the Joint Task Group last year and many of the recommendations made had been partly or fully implemented. It had been an interesting experience to talk to officers of different levels within the Partnership about different perceptions of what the ambitions of the Partnership were and the Task Group had been chaired extremely well by Councillor Mossop from ELDC.

The Chairman requested nominations from the Panel to join the Task Group and Councillor C Brewis was duly appointed to the Task Group.

The Task Group’s scope was also approved by the Panel.

AGREED:

1. That the scope at Appendix A be agreed to enable the scrutiny exercise to commence promptly in late September.
2. That Councillor C Brewis be appointed from the Panel to join the Task Group alongside the Chairman (Councillor B Alcock) and Vice-Chairman (Councillor M Booth).