Issue - meetings

The Board received a report setting out proposals to move the Partnership forward and to assist it work in a more structured way.

It was proposed that the Board’s key focus should be the delivery of the Greenest Borough Strategy (GBS) and that an ‘Innovation Pot’ should be established, which the funding allocated to the Board from the Area Based Grant (ABG) would be put into. Partners would then have the opportunity to bid for funding from this. 

Under the proposed working arrangements a partner organisation agree would to take the lead on each of the seven priorities contained within the GBS. There was an expectation attached to this that partners would meet and work outside the forum of the Board to take issues forward.

The Board discussed this proposal and there was a general consensus that this approach should be adopted. In response to a query as to how performance would be managed; the Board was advised that a quarterly overview would be provide within the existing Local Area Agreement (LAA) Quarterly Performance report.

There was agreement that officers should contact partners individually to discuss the areas that they may wish to lead on.

RESOLVED:

1. That the proposals set out in the report be approved.

2. That officers would contact partners individually to discuss the areas that may be interested in taking the lead on.