Decision details
Alternative Delivery Models - Governance Arrangements
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decision:
The Cabinet considered a report of the Chief Executive presenting a range of alternative delivery vehicles that the Council controls, the current governance arrangements and proposals on potential ways forward.
Resolved:
1. That the current group structure of the Council Companies, Joint Ventures and Charitable Trusts and associated governance arrangements, be noted.
2. That a new advisory forum reporting to Cabinet be established to be called “The Shareholder Board” to provide an effective means of Council governance of the Council Companies and this shall replace the existing Member Advisory Forum (re: Trading Companies).
3. That the terms of reference of the Shareholder Board shall be added as a new section 4.6 in Schedule 2 of Part 3 to the Constitution, as set out in Appendix 3 to the submitted report, with a membership that is politically proportional (5 Conservatives, 2 Independent, 2 Labour) and that includes the following members of Cabinet:
· The Leader
· The Deputy Leader
· Executive Councillor for Corporate & Community Support Services
· One other Executive Councillor
4. That Cabinet receive an annual report on the operation of the Council’s Joint Ventures and Charitable Trusts.
Reasons for decision:
To provide a common unified governance structure between the Council and Council Companies, Joint Ventures, and to ensure proper exercise of its role as trustee of its Charitable Trusts.
Other options:
To retain the current ad-hoc arrangements by which the Council exercises its shareholder role or to establish other arrangements.
Note: This is a Council Function
Eligible for call in to Policy & Resources Scrutiny Committee
Executive Councillor: Moring
Report author: Joe Chesterton
Publication date: 10/11/2017
Date of decision: 07/11/2017
Decided at meeting: 07/11/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 18/11/2017
This decision has been called in by:
- Councillor Brian Ayling who writes For consideration by the Policy & Resources Scrutiny Committee"
- Councillor Ron Woodley who writes For consideration by the Policy & Resources Scrutiny Committee"
- Councillor David Norman MBE who writes for consideration by the Policy & Resources Scrutiny Committee"
- Councillor Ian Gilbert who writes for consideration by the Policy & Resources Scrutiny Committee"
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