Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Resources and Housing that sets out proposals to update the Best Council Plan for the period 2020/21 – 2024/25. Subject to Executive Board’s approval, the proposals will then be considered in consultation with Scrutiny Boards alongside the 2020/21 Initial Budget Proposals. Following this, a final draft of the updated Best Council Plan will be brought to February’s Executive Board with the final Budget proposals, recommending its adoption by Full Council later that month.

The Director of Resources and Housing submitted a report setting out proposals to update the Best Council Plan for the period 2020/21 –

2024/25, and which sought approval to undertake engagement with Scrutiny Boards on the proposals in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules.

RESOLVED – That the following be approved:-

(a)  That engagement be undertaken with Scrutiny on the emerging Best Council Plan in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules;

(b)  The approach set out within the submitted report to refresh the Best Council Plan for the period 2020/21 to 2024/25;

(c)  That the Director of Resources and Housing will be responsible for developing the Best Council Plan for its consideration by this Board and Full Council in February 2020 alongside the supporting 2020/21 Budget proposals.

(The matters referred to within this minute, given that they were decisions being made in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules, were not eligible for Call In, as Executive and Decision Making Procedure Rule 5.1.2 states that the power to Call In decisions does not extend to those decisions being made in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules)