Agenda and minutes
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APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE To receive any apologies for absence. Minutes: Apologies were received from Commissioner Sir Ken Knight and Ashling Lyon of DCLG.
Apologies were noted from Cllr Danny Hassell, Chair of General Purposes Committee and Debbie Jones, Corporate Director for Children.
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DECLARATIONS OF DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTERESTS PDF 73 KB To note any declarations of interest made by Members, including those restricting Members from voting on the questions detailed in Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992. See attached note from the Monitoring Officer. Minutes: No declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests were made
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UNRESTRICTED MINUTES PDF 124 KB To confirm as a correct record of the proceedings the unrestricted minutes of the Best Value Review Board Quarterly Meeting held on 19 October 2016. Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 19 October 2016 were agreed and approved as a correct record.
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Best Value Plan Update PDF 78 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Chair informed all present that:
The Chair acknowledged officers’ work in progressing the action plan.
The Chief Executive and Divisional Director for Strategy Policy and Equality provided supplementary information arising from a Best Value Workshop on 17 January 2017. The supplementary information outlined the Council’s progress against remaining actions in the Best Value Action Plans
Statutory Posts The Chief Executive: · outlined the Council's intentions and process for recruiting to the statutory Monitoring Officer role. The long-listing and short-listing interviews would be · completed by March-end 2017. To ensure that there were appropriate interim arrangements, interviews had been held and Graham White appointed as Interim Monitoring Officer and Corporate Director for Governance.
Commissioner Caller advised the Board that he would discharge an oversight role as he done during previous recruitments to statutory officer posts with the intention of assuring the Secretary of State of the task’s completion. The Chair supported the timescale proposed and the Chief Executive confirmed that recruitment consultants had already been engaged and were expected shortly to deliver a long-list of candidates and advertising to meet the time frame.
Commissioner Caller suggested that the Council may wish to move onward to explore how it intends to deliver best value in the context of continuous development. The Chief Executive confirmed that the Authority had undertaken work with the LGA in this regard.
Elections The Chief Executive: · noted there had been positive feedback relating to the conduct of recent elections in the borough. · noted that the Direction to appoint a Returning Officer had been completed. · advised that, responding to Sir Eric Pickles’ review of elections in December 2016, the Government supported a recommendation that local authorities which had previously experienced significant cases of electoral fraud or were at high risk of fraudulent activity should participate in pilot schemes to explore ways in which this could be reduced. It had been suggested that Tower Hamlets might take part in a pilot and the Authority was in discussion with the Cabinet Officer around how to deliver the pilot and was exploring what forms of ID would be appropriate. · noted that a process of checking postal votes against signature and National Insurance number was already in place, an action arising from the directions relating to electoral matters. · advised that there would be early engagement with the new Borough Commander to ensure that Police support, , developing work programme for ... view the full minutes text for item 4.1 |