Decision details

To consider revisions to the areas of executive responsibility for 2017-18 and to the scheme of delegations of decisions to Executive Members.

The Council’s Standing Orders with respect to Meetings allows the Executive Leader to determine the areas of executive responsibility and to discharge Executive functions in accordance with S9E Local Government Act 2000 (SO 31 & 32).

The Executive Leader therefore gives notice that he intends to implement the following revisions from 11 May 2017:

a)    the responsibility for the function of Health to be moved from the Health and Housing portfolio to the Public Protection portfolio;

b)    the Public Protection portfolio to be renamed as the Health and Public Protection portfolio;

c)    the Health and Housing portfolio to be renamed as the Housing portfolio;

d)    The areas of responsibility for the functions of Council Tax, Asset Management, Tenancy Management and Cemeteries to be renamed as set out in Appendix A to this report.;

e)    the areas of responsibility for the functions within portfolios to be added/removed as follows:

                       i.       Town Centre Management to be removed from the Policy and Resources portfolio;

                      ii.        Youth Strategy/Youth Council to be removed from the Leisure and Community portfolio;

                     iii.        Traffic Management (e.g Traffic Regulation Orders) to be removed from the Health and Public Protection portfolio;

                    iv.        Daedalus Vision to be added to the Policy and Resources portfolio;

                      v.        Town Centre Events to be added to the Leisure and Community Portfolio; and

                    vi.        Housing Benefits and Housing Maintenance to be added to the Housing Portfolio.

f)     The Scheme of Delegations to Executive Members as attached as Appendix B to be amended to:

                      i.        reflect the amended names of the Housing Portfolio and the Health and Public Protection Portfolios;

                     ii.        remove Traffic Regulation Orders from the scheme of delegations.

That the Executive Leader approves:

(a)  the amendments to the Executive portfolios as set out in Appendix A to this report; and

(b)  the amendments to the Scheme of Delegations to Individual Members as set out in Appendix B to this report.