Issue - meetings

To submit a report by the Head of Profession, HR and Transformation.

It was resolved –

·        To authorise Officers through the Portfolio Member for Corporate Business to undertake the task of completing the final draft of the Annual Delivery Document for 2019/20 and to recommend its adoption by the Full Council at its meeting on 15 July, 2019.

·        That the Executive confirms the deliverability of the said document as a plan which identifies the work of the Council aligned to the priorities of the Council’s Plan scheduled for delivery during 2018/19.

·        That for future years publication of the Annual Delivery Document be brought forwards in the financial year.

The report of the Head of Profession (Human Resources)/Transformation incorporating the Annual Delivery Document for 2019/20 was presented for the Executive’s consideration. The document explains how the Council will achieve its key priorities over the next twelve month period in the context of the wider objectives of the Corporate Plan 2017-22.

The Programme, Business Planning and Performance Manager advised that the document provides the details of the Council’s aspirations for the year and is based on the work undertaken in annual service reviews and in annual service business planning meetings which taken together have influenced the expectations of the Council corporately for the year ahead.

The Executive in indicating that it was satisfied with the contents of the Annual Delivery Document and that it  believed the aspirations which it reflected were capable of being realised was mindful also that the best laid plans can be frustrated by events beyond the Council’s control. The Executive queried the publication of the Annual Delivery Document three months into the new financial year when its purpose is to set out the objectives for the upcoming year and asked whether it was feasible to bring forward its publication. The Programme, Business Planning and Performance Manager advised that whilst ideally, publication would take place at the start of the new financial year in April each year, end of year closure procedures for the preceding year e.g. the Council’s accounts, first have to be completed added to which is the fact that the Delivery Document is informed by services’ recognition of what needs to be done in the year ahead with the business planning work for this not completed until early April.

Although it recognised that earlier publication might be a challenge, the Executive was of the view that this should be the objective and was agreed in making a recommendation to that effect.

It was resolved –

•           To authorise Officers through the Portfolio Member for Corporate Business to undertake the task of completing the final draft of the Annual Delivery Document for 2019/20 and to recommend its adoption by the Full Council at its meeting in 15 July, 2019.

•           That the Executive confirms the deliverability of the said document as a plan which identifies the work of the Council aligned to the priorities of the Council’s Plan scheduled for delivery during 2018/19.

•           That for future years publication of the Annual Delivery Document be brought forwards in the financial year.