Issue - meetings

To provide a Partnership performance update and MOA review (report of the Service Director – Corporate Services enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Service Director – Corporate Services which presented a Partnership performance update and Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) review.

The Leader presented the Partnership Performance Report, and advised that:

• 81% of projects within the 2025/26 Annual Delivery Plan had been completed in-year;
• A joint leisure agency contract had been signed across the Partnership, delivering significant savings, and that the Partnership was now on track to achieve £47 million in savings against the original £42 million target, with further savings anticipated; and
• Lobbying of Government in respect of Internal Drainage Board funding was ongoing, with the Council awaiting confirmation of its allocation from the £5 million fund.

DECISION:

That Council:

1)     Noted the content of the report in respect of the progress of the South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership; and

2)     Subject to agreement by the other Partnership Councils, approved the updated Memorandum of Agreement for the South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership (Appendix A) and delegated authority to the Executive Director – Finance to sign the revised Agreement on behalf of this Council. The new Agreement, upon signing, replacing the previous Agreement.