Issue - meetings

Report by Iwan G. D. Evans, Monitoring Officer – Host Authority.

To approve the timetable.

The report was submitted by Iwan G.D.Evans, Monitoring Officer - Host Authority.

RESOLVED to approve the timetable.

REASONS FOR THE DECISION

The agreement of the partnership was key to agreeing on a comprehensive Governance Agreement 2 ("GA2"). These issues had been reported to the previous meeting. This report updated the timetable for the work.

DISCUSSION

The report was submitted, which presented the updated GA2 Plan to the Board and reported on the outcomes of the Governance Workshop.

Details were provided about the background and relevant considerations, timetable, legal implications and the consultations held.

It was noted that it was intended to report on proposed models and final documentation to scrutiny committees during the second half of October; to the Cabinet during the second half of November and to Council meetings within the first half of December. 

It was explained that there was specific work to complete around establishing the financial commitments of the partners for GA2 and the Growth Deal specifically. This was crucial to be able to proceed to seek recommendations for the councils to adopt in accordance with the timetable. It was intended to hold a workshop for officers in August, which would include officers from the Executive Group, together with the partners' Finance Directors from the councils and colleges in order to start reaching a viewpoint on the expenditure profiles of the projects and the financial framework in GA2. Following that, the workshop listed in the work programme would have to be held for representatives and members of the NWEAB to discuss the results of the officers' workshop and to reach a viewpoint on the way forward, but that would be in September. It was stressed that there was a balance to strike between the desire to move early with the projects, and the cost effect of that in terms of cash flow. It was noted that specialist work had been commissioned over the coming fortnight which would provide information for the officers' workshop, with the results of that fed into the members' workshop in due course.

It was stressed that it was important that the Leaders were part of the workshops to be held with the councils' members to support the Plan.