Agenda and decisions

To receive any apologies for absence.

To receive any declaration of Personal Interest.

To note any items that are a matter of urgency in the view of the Chair for consideration.

The Chair shall propose that the minutes of the previous meeting held on 19 of September, 2025 be signed as a true record.

Dewi A. Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) and Sian Pugh, Assistant Head of Finance to present the report.

The ISA 260 report by Audit Wales for the NWEAB was considered and approved. 

The NWEAB’s final Statement of Accounts for 2024/25 (post-audit) was considered and approved.

Dewi A. Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) and Sian Pugh, Assistant Head of Finance to present report.

To approve the CJC’s revised Annual Return for 2024/25 (post external audit). It has been duly completed and certified by the Statutory Finance Officer for the CJC (Appendix 1).

Delyth Jones-Thomas, Cyngor Gwynedd Investment Manager to present report.

To note and accept the report for information.

Alwen Williams, Chief Executive  and Dave Hole, Programme Lead to present report.

To note the progress update and the current challenges with the ongoing transformation and continuous improvement of the CJC during 2025/26.   

To direct that a further report be presented in March 2026 to update on 2025/26 programme delivery, including the new proposed programme for 2026/27. 

Adam Graham, Senior Transport Officer to present report.

To note the report and its appendix.

Alwen Williams, Chief Executive and Iain Taylor, AMION Consulting to present report.

The following items were considered for approval:

• The investment allocations of the Annual Delivery Plan;

• The Investment Zone Programmes as set out in Section 3 of this report; 

• The Terms of Reference for the Flintshire and Wrexham Investment Zone Working Group (Appendix 1);

• That the CJC's Section 151 Officer is permitted to sign and issue the Annual Delivery Plan documents to UK Government and Welsh Government and make any further non-material amendments necessary to agree the ADP with both Governments.

The Chairman shall propose that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the discussion on the following items due tothe likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 14 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government act 1972 .

There is an acknowledged public interest in openness in relation to the use of public resources and related financial issues. It is also acknowledged that there are occasions, in order to protect public business interests that matters related to such information needs to be discussed without being publicised. The report is specifically about agreeing the appointment arrangements including job details and remuneration terms and terms that will be subject to a competitive recruitment process. 

Alwen Williams, Chief Executive to present report.

To agreed to advertise the post of Portfolio Director on a permanent full-time basis, at an annual salary at a scale of up to £93,163.

To authorise the commencement of a recruitment process to appoint a Portfolio Director.

To agree that the recruitment process, including the advertising, would be delegated to the Chief Executive.

To adapt the linguistic requirements in the Job Description to include that the ability to speak and write in Welsh is desirable rather than essential.