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Planning and Policy Framework 2011-14

 

 

Meeting: 19/04/2011 - Cabinet (Item 127)

127 Corporate Plan and Resource Policy Framework 2011-14 pdf icon PDF 73 KB

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Langhorn)

 

Report of the Deputy Chief Executive

Additional documents:

Minutes:

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor)

 

Cabinet received a report from the Deputy Chief Executive which presented the Corporate Plan and Resource Management Framework for the 3 year period commencing 2011/12 and sought any amendments.

 

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment and officer preferred option, were set out in the report as follows:

 

 

Option 1:

That Cabinet considers the Corporate Plan and Resource Management Framework and makes any changes as appropriate

Option 2:

That Cabinet determines an alternative course of action to prepare the Corporate Plan and Resource Management Framework than that recommended in Option 1

Advantages

The Corporate Plan and Resource Management Framework set the strategic direction for council services and the necessary framework for performance management.

None

Disadvantages

None

There would be no strategic framework set in time for Council to implement its budgets.

Risks

Objectives and funding may change throughout the year following Government initiatives.  However, this will be managed through the Planning and Policy Framework.

There could be insufficient strategic direction for officers to implement members’ priorities.

 

The Officer preferred option was Option 1, as it would provide a process for ensuring that Cabinet could agree a version of the Corporate Plan and Resource Management Framework to refer to Full Council in May.

 

Councillor Langhorn proposed, seconded by Councillor Kerr:-

 

“(1)      That Cabinet approves the Council’s Corporate Plan and the Resource Management Framework, which includes the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS), the Medium Term Corporate Property Strategy (MTCPS), the Human Resources (HR) Strategy and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy, and makes any amendments that it considers appropriate.

 

(2)        That Cabinet refers the Corporate Plan and Resource Management Framework to Council, and recommends Council to approve the Corporate Plan and MTFS, which form part of the Policy Framework, and asks Council to note the MTCPS, HR Strategy and ICT Strategy, which do not.

 

(3)        That Cabinet notes that officers will be reviewing the definition of the Policy Framework as set out in Article 4.01 of the Constitution, and will be bringing recommendations to Cabinet and Council in due course.“

 

By way of amendment, it was proposed by Councillor Whitelegg and accepted by the mover and seconder of the original proposal as a friendly amendment:

 

“That ‘Commit to provide an adequate level of resourcing to ensure that these commitments are met’, be added as a fourth bullet point to the section ‘Our resource management framework – people.”

 

By way of a further amendment, it was proposed by Councillor Barry and accepted by the mover and seconder of the original proposal as a friendly amendment:

 

“That the words ‘and energy generation’ be inserted in the fourth bullet point in the ‘Climate change section: in the next three years we will’ to read ‘Commission energy efficiency and energy generation works at Salt Ayre Sports Centre.”

 

By way of a further amendment, it was proposed by Councillor Barry and accepted by the mover and seconder of the original proposal as a friendly amendment:

 

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