Agenda item
SCRUTINY COMMITTEE WORK PROGRAMME
- Meeting of Performance Scrutiny Committee, Thursday, 28 June 2012 9.30 am (Item 10.)
- View the background to item 10.
To consider a report by the Scrutiny Coordinator (copy enclosed) seeking a review of the Committee’s forward work programme and updating members of relevant issues.
Minutes:
A copy of a report by the
Scrutiny Coordinator, which requested the Committee to review and agree its Forward Work Programme and
provided an update on relevant issues, had been circulated with the papers for the
meeting. Various appendices were
attached to the report, references to which were included in the report.
The Scrutiny Coordinator
referred to the draft
Forward Work Programme (FWP) for future meetings as detailed in Appendix 1,
which had been inherited from the former Committee. She referred to paragraph 4 of the report
which set out the terms of reference and functions of the Committee, and
highlighted the importance of the role of the Performance Scrutiny committee
within the scrutiny process. Members
agreed with the suggestion that a Workshop be convened to assist in identifying
and clarifying the role of the Performance Scrutiny Committee with regard to
performance management within the Authority and the role of the Corporate
Governance Committee.
The
Committee considered the draft FWP and it was agreed that the Workshop could also be utilised
to examine the FWP. The Scrutiny
Coordinator explained she had received a verbal request to defer the item on
Planning Enforcement, currently scheduled for the July, 2012 meeting, and made
reference to the excessive number of 10 items schedule for consideration at the
September, 2012 meeting. Members agreed
that the Planning Enforcement item be deferred and that a workshop on
performance management, and the Committee’s FWP, be held prior to its business
meeting on the 26th July, 2012.
The Workshop to commence at 9.30 a.m. and the public
meeting to start at 11.15 a.m.
The Committee considered the
appointment of Committee Representatives on the following Council Groups and
Boards:-
Service Performance Challenge
Groups – all Scrutiny Committees had been invited to appoint a representative
to each Group to act as the Committee’s contact for each service. An overview of the process had been included
at Appendix 5 to the report. It was
emphasised that the service leads appointed by the Performance Scrutiny
Committee had an important and defined role to play in supporting and
challenging services to deliver against their performance targets, business and
efficiencies plans. The following
Members were appointed:-
Housing & Community
Development – Councillor C.L. Hughes
Children and family Services –
Councillor A. Roberts
Adult & Business Services
– Councillor C. Hughes
Environmental Services –
Councillor R.J. Davies
Legal & Democratic
Services and Business – Councillor W.L. Cowie
Business Planning and
Performance – C.L. Hughes
Education and Customers &
Education Support – Councillor A. Roberts
Communications, Marketing
& Leisure – Councillor G.Lloyd-Williams
Finance & Assets –
Councillor I.W. Armstrong
Regeneration – Councillor G. Sandilands
Highways & Infrastructure
– Councillor P.W. Owen
Planning & Public
Protection – Councillor M.Ll. Davies
Strategic Human Resources –
Councillor H. Hilditch-Roberts
Strategic Investment Group -
Members appointed Councillor G. Sandilands to serve
on the Strategic Investment Group, which would meet on a monthly basis to
consider the Council’s future capital requirements and bids for capital funding
and external grants. The terms of
reference of the Group had been included as Appendix 6 to the report.
Conwy and Denbighshire
Collaboration Programme Board - The report outlined the membership and role of
the Board and a copy of the Board’s terms of reference had been included at
Appendix 7 to the report. The Committee agreed that Councillor A.
Roberts be appointed to serve as its representative on the Board and Councillor C.
Hughes as the Committee's substitute representative on the Group in the event
of Councillor Roberts being unable to attend. Following further discussion, it was:-
RESOLVED – that:-
(a)
the Planning Enforcement item be deferred until the
autumn of 2012.
(b)
a Workshop be convened on the 26th July,
2012 at 9.30 a.m., with the business meeting commencing at 11.15 a.m.
(c)
the
Members listed above be appointed to serve on each of the Service Performance
Challenge Groups.
(d)
Councillor G. Sandilands be nominated to serve
on the Council’s Strategic Investment Group, and
(e)
Councillor A. Roberts to nominated serve on the Conwy and Denbighshire
Collaboration Programme Board, with Councillor C. Hughes as the substitute
representative.
Supporting documents:
- Work Programme Report 280612, item 10. PDF 67 KB
- Performance Scrutiny Work Programme - App 1[1], item 10. PDF 130 KB
- Work Programme 2011-12 - App 2, item 10. PDF 67 KB
- Work Programme 2011-12 - App 3, item 10. PDF 17 KB
- Work Programme 2011-12 - App 4, item 10. PDF 72 KB
- Work Programme 2011-12 - App 5, item 10. PDF 76 KB
- Work Programme 2011-12 - App 6, item 10. PDF 29 KB
- Perf Work Prog, item 10. PDF 26 KB