6 GOVERNANCE AGREEMENT 2 PDF 489 KB
Report by Iwan G. D. Evans, Monitoring Officer – Host
Authority.
Decision:
To approve the timetable.
Minutes:
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.