Issue - meetings

To submit a report by the Deputy Chief Executive.

RESOLVED to accept the Annual Delivery Document for 2014/15 and to recommend its adoption by the County Council at its meeting to be held on 8^th May, 2014.

Submitted - The report of the Performance and Business Support Manager incorporating the Annual Delivery Document for 2014/15 which outlined the main areas of improvement in terms of the delivery of the Council’s corporate priorities during 2014/15.

The Leader of the Council reported on the observations made by the Corporate Scrutiny Committee in considering the Annual Delivery Document at its meeting held on 17th April whose Members as well as raising specific points, had sought reassurance regarding the achievability of the plan given the prevailing climate of diminishing resources and budget reductions. Members of the Corporate Scrutiny Committee had also suggested that part of the document might be more accessible if they were in matrix/tabular form. The Leader said that that each of the Delivery document’s objectives are founded on the Council’s detailed service business plans and have a robust and solid basis. The document in its current narrative format is intended to convey to the public in a clear manner, the Council’s improvement objectives for 2014/15.

RESOLVED to accept the Annual Delivery Document for 2014/15 and to recommend its adoption by the County Council at its meeting to be held on 8^th May, 2014.