Issue - meetings

The report presents the draft Service Plans for all of the Council’s services for 2015/16.  The Plans set out strategic actions for each service, delivering the Council’s corporate priorities for 2015/16.  A special joint meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees took place on 19 January 2015 to allow Members to receive short presentations from each Head of Service regarding the main elements of their plan and to make any observations on the plans to the Executive.  The observations are set out at the end of the report.

Recommendation

It is recommended that

1.         the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee be thanked for its observations; and

2.         the Service Plan Action Plans for 2015-16 be endorsed.

The Executive thanked the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committees for their observations and endorsed the Service Plan Action Plans for 2015-16.

[This item has already been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committees but could be called-in]

[Reason: to set out the strategic actions for each service, delivering the Council’s corporate priorities].

RESOLVED  that the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committees be thanked for their observations and the Service Plan Action Plans for 2015-16 be endorsed.

[Reason: to set out the strategic actions for each service, delivering the Council’s corporate priorities].

The report presents the draft Service Plans for all of the Council’s services for 2015/16.  The Plans set out strategic actions for each service, delivering the Council’s corporate priorities for 2015/16.  The special joint meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees is being held to allow Members to receive short presentations from each Head of Service regarding the main elements of their plan, and to make any observations on the plans to the Executive.  The Executive is due to consider the plans at its meeting to be held on 3 February 2015.

Recommendation

The Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committees are requested to consider the draft Service Plan Action Plans for 2015/2016 and make any observations on the draft plans to the Executive.