Issue - meetings

To secure member approval to implement the new service structures set out within this report (report of Corporate Management Team Members enclosed).

Please note that Appendix E will be sent ‘to follow’.

Consideration was given to the report of the Assistant Director, Well-being and Community Leadership, the Assistant Director – Leisure and Culture, the Assistant Director – Governance (Monitoring Officer), the Deputy Chief Executive Programme Delivery and Assistant Director, General Fund Assets, and the Assistant Director – Neighbourhoods, which sought to secure member approval to implement the new service structures set out within the report. 

The Leader provided an introduction to the report, followed by more specific introductions to each of the following service reviews by the relevant Portfolio Holder(s):

·         Wellbeing and Community Leadership – To change to Communities and Housing Services

·         Leisure and Culture – To change to Leisure and Local Services

·         Information, Governance and Legal Services

·         General Fund Assets

·         Neighbourhoods

The following issues were raised:

·         Members were confident that the proposals would deliver results around the progression of future combined working.  It showed the Partnership as strong and forward thinking, and there was a strong cohort of officers across all three authorities

·         Members wished to know when information regarding which officers were in which roles would be available.  The Leader advised that the proposals would now be taken through the consultation process, after which it would become clearer which officers would cover each specific role, and members would then be advised.

DECISION:

1)    That the relevant Assistant Directors in respect of the service reviews presented in Appendices A - E of the report be authorised to undertake the necessary staff consultation on the structures presented;

2)    That the relevant Assistant Directors, in consultation with their Portfolio Holder(s), be delegated the authority to determine and implement final structures that take account of consultation responses; and

3)    That the Head of Paid Service be authorised to place specified South Holland District Council post holders at the disposal of Boston Borough Council and East Lindsey District Council and to accept the placing of specified Boston Borough Council and East Lindsey District Council post holders at the disposal of this Council in accordance with Section 113 of the Local Government Act 1972.