Issue - meetings

REPORT OF THE SCRUTINY OFFICER

To consider the issues that the Overview and Scrutiny Committee plans to review at future meetings and the activities of its sub-groups.

RESOLVED:

(1)        That the report entitled Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme for 20169/20 be noted;

(2)        That the Committee, Member and Scrutiny Manager be asked to liaise with the Chairman to schedule in the Task and Finish Group on Waste to start as soon as the current Task and Finish Group is concluded;

(3)        That the Service Director – Commercial be made aware of the requirements of this Committee as detailed above.

REASON FOR DECISION: To allow the Committee to set a work programme which Provides focussed Member oversight, encourages open debate and seeks to achieve service improvement through effective policy development and meaningful policy and service change.

Audio recording – 2 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds

The Temporary Scrutiny Officer presented the report entitled Overview and Scrutiny Committee Work Programme for 2019/20 together with the following appendices:

·                 Appendix A - Work Programme for future Committee meetings;

·                 Appendix B - Forward Plan - 1 July 2019.

She drew attention to the following:

Hitchin Town Hall Review / North Hertfordshire Museum Project

The review hearings regarding the Hitchin Town Hall start on 17 July 2019

Agendas for these meetings were available on the Council’s website.

The Committee, Member and Scrutiny Manager advised that the report from this Task and Finish Group may not be presented to the Committee in September as planned as a number of witnesses could not attend the first two days if hearings and therefore a further day will need to be scheduled

Task and Finish Group on Waste

The Chairman asked that the Task and Finish Group on Waste be scheduled to start as soon as the current Task and Finish Group is completed.

Commercial Strategy Update

The Service Director – Commercial had provided an update regarding the Commercial Strategy at Appendix C.

Members were disappointed at the lack of update regarding the Commercial Strategy for this Committee.

They felt that the Commercial Strategy was one of the most crucial activities for the success of this Council.

Target setting and being held responsible were issues to be discussed. Not much had been achieved as yet and the Committee needed to be made aware of the actions being taken, the projects being considered and what success would look like

Forward Plan

This was provided at Appendix B

Recommendation 2.2

This recommendation should read:

“That the Committee agrees the list of items to be considered at its meeting on 17 September 2019.

RESOLVED:

(1)        That the report entitled Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme for 20169/20 be noted;

(2)        That the Committee, Member and Scrutiny Manager be asked to liaise with the Chairman to schedule in the Task and Finish Group on Waste to start as soon as the current Task and Finish Group is concluded;

(3)        That the Service Director – Commercial be made aware of the requirements of this Committee as detailed above.

REASON FOR DECISION: To allow the Committee to set a work programme which Provides focussed Member oversight, encourages open debate and seeks to achieve service improvement through effective policy development and meaningful policy and service change.