Agenda item

Decision:

1.       Approved the membership and terms of reference for the Executive working groups recommended to continue as set out in the appendices to the report;

2.       Agreed to dissolve the Financial Recovery Executive Working Group and the HRA Housing Management HRA Board; and,

3.       Established the Housing Operations Board and approve its terms of reference and membership.

Reason(s):

To assist the Executive to select or set up appropriate, properly resourced groups to provide support or undertake work on its behalf.

Other options considered and rejected by the Executive:

None.

Details of any conflict of interest declared by the Leader or lead councillors and any dispensation granted:

None.

The report asks sought Executive to review the current list of working groups and their terms of reference, and to determine whether these groups should continue for the coming year or be dissolved.  Where there was a preference for certain working groups to continue, the Executive was invited to confirm in respect of each group, the chairman, the terms of reference, and to appoint councillors to them for the next 12 months. The revised recommendations were set out in the Supplementary Information Sheet along with the membership of the Housing Operations Board.

It was noted that in every case, apart from the Strategic Projects and Programmes Board (SPPB), the Executive working groups voluntarily had a cross-party membership. The SPPB was the Executive itself sitting to receive reports from the four cross-party Delivery Boards. Minutes, if taken, might be available more widely at each working group chairman’s discretion. Each working group had its own terms of reference where any substitute membership arrangements would be set out. Constitutionally, there were no specific arrangements for the Executive to adhere to in regard to its working groups. The Executive,

RESOLVED:

1.       To approve the membership and terms of reference for the Executive working groups recommended to continue as set out in the appendices to the report;

2.       To agree to dissolve the Financial Recovery Executive Working Group and the HRA Housing Management HRA Board; and,

3.       To establish the Housing Operations Board and approve its terms of reference and membership.

Reason(s):

To assist the Executive to select or set up appropriate, properly resourced groups to provide support or undertake work on its behalf.