Issue - meetings

The Committee considered the report of the Business Manager – Transformation & Service Improvement and the Senior Transformation & Service Improvement Officer which sought to share with Members the recommendations put forward by the Working Group and also the Committee’s endorsement where relevant. 

Councillor Rhona Holloway, Chair of the Working Group, presented the report to Members which outlined the rationale for the establishment of the Working Group, which was consideration of activities outside the Council’s remit and the balance of the benefit to residents with resource impact.  Topics which the Working Group considered were detailed within the report with the proposals detailed in paragraph 2; including flooding – the effects and prevention; continuity of public health services delivered by the Council during local government reorganisation; and planning infrastructure.  An agreed proposal was to extend an invitation to the Environment Agency (EA) to attend committee in order to provide Members with further insight into the EAs role within flood prevention, as well as key priorities and projects which had been identified as areas of focus within the County, specifically the Newark & Sherwood district.  Richard Cooper of the Environment Agency was in attendance at the meeting.

AGREED     (unanimously) that the Policy & Performance Improvement Committee note:

a)           that the Leader of the Council had written to the Mayor of the East Midlands Combined County Authority on the issue of Flooding; and

b)          that an invitation had been extended to representatives of the Environment Agency to discuss and understand the priorities and areas of focus for this agency within flood prevention in Newark & Sherwood;

AGREED     (unanimously) that the Policy & Performance Improvement Committee endorse:

c)           the continuity of public health services provided by the Council during the Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) and through the transition process leading up to vesting day, recommending that the Health Active Lifestyles manager be appointed to Newark & Sherwood District Council’s LGR implementation group, once established; and

d)          that an invitation be extended to Planning Infrastructure colleagues to a future meeting of the Policy & Performance Improvement Committee, to provide an overview of the service areas, including cases where operations extend beyond ‘typical’ district council responsibilities.