Issue - meetings

·        Preferred Delivery Model for Leisure, Sport, Play and Development Services. (Cabinet minute attached).

·        Major Change Project 6.4 - Determine Future Delivery Model for Waste Management Services. (Cabinet minute attached).

The Leader of the Council informed Council of recent changes to his Cabinet, namely the appointment of Cllr Don Stockton as Cabinet Member for the newly created Planning and Housing Portfolio and the reallocation of some of the Cabinet responsibilities. The revised list of Cabinet responsibilities was circulated at the meeting and is appended to these minutes, for information.

The Leader also reported on the two recent Cabinet resolutions in respect of the formation of the new delivery vehicles for, Leisure, Sport, Play and Development Services and for Waste Management Services.

The Chairman of the Waste Board would be Cllr J Hammond and the Chairman of the Leisure Board would be Cllr A Kolker.

Other delivery vehicles would be created in the forthcoming months and would deal with the following functions :-

• Bereavement, led by Cllr D Marren
• Enforcement, led by Cllr Baxendale
• Transport, led by Cllr R Menlove
• Energy, led by Cllr P Mason

The Leader of the Council reported that each Board would include an opposition or Independent member. An example of this was his intention that Cllr D Brickhill would be a member of the Enforcement Board.

The Leader also informed Council that he intended to make some changes to his group’s Committee places and Chairmanships. These changes were considered and agreed by Council under the following item. A document outlining the changes was circulated at the meeting and is appended to these minutes, at minute 29.