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 to establish a Joint Scrutiny Task Group and agree the associated scope to undertake the annual scrutiny review of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership.

The Assistant Director – Corporate introduced the report and highlighted the following:

·       The S&ELCP Memorandum of Agreement stated that annual joint scrutiny would be undertaken to review progress of the partnership and to understand its effectiveness and opportunities for its further development;.

·       Appendix A outlined the scoping document for the Annual Joint Scrutiny of the Partnership task and finish group; and

·       Membership of the task group was to comprise the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Performance Monitoring Panel, and a third member was being sought at the current meeting.

Members considered the report and made the following comments:

• Councillor Chris Brewis, who was not present at the meeting, had indicated his wish to join the membership of the task group. This was moved by the panel.

• The Chairman expressed his existing fulsome council commitments but would endeavour to attend the task group meetings wherever possible.

• The Assistant Director – Corporate suggested that a reserve member be appointed in addition to the core task group membership in order to cover any potential absences. This was agreed and the reserve position was filled by Councillor Paul Barnes.

AGREED:

a)    That the scope, at Appendix A, to enable the scrutiny exercise to commence promptly in September 2024, be agreed;

b)    That Councillor Chris Brewis be appointed to join the task group alongside the Chairman and Vice-Chairman; and

c)     That Councillor Paul Barnes be appointed as a reserve member of the task group.