Council and Democracy

Agenda, decisions and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 1, Town Hall

Contact: Charlotte Kearsey  01246 345277

Items
No. Item

7.

Declaration of Members' and Officers' Interests relating to items on the Agenda

Minutes:

No declarations of interest were received.

8.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Bagley.

9.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 56 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED –

 

That the Minutes of the meeting of the Joint Cabinet and Employment and General Committee of 15 May, 2018 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

10.

Exclusion of Public

To move “That under Regulation 21(1)(b) of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements)(Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2000, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the following Paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.”

Paragraph 3 - On the grounds that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Minutes:

RESOLVED –

 

That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.

11.

Information and Communications Technology

Decision:

*RESOLVED –

 

1.   That the identified additional ICT posts be approved and added to the Council’s establishment.

 

2.   That the Executive Director and Assistant Director - Customers, Commissioning and Change be granted delegated authority, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Business Transformation, to recruit to the new posts, within the constraints of the ICT Improvement Programme approved budgets.

 

REASON FOR RECOMMENDATIONS –

 

To ensure the Council has the correct capacity and capability to deliver the approved ICT Improvement Programme.

Minutes:

The Assistant Director – Customers, Commissioning and Change submitted a report seeking approval to establish and recruit to additional posts in the ICT service to support delivery of the Council ICT Improvement Programme.

 

Delivery of the ICT Improvement Programme would provide Chesterfield Borough Council with greater ICT resilience and reliability. The Improvement Programme would also lay the foundations to enable future digital transformation of Council services.

 

When funding for the ICT Improvement Programme was approved by Cabinet on 24 April, 2018 and Council on 25 April, 2018, the need to strengthen the competence, capability and capacity of the service was highlighted as an issue that would need to be addressed through a fundamental review of the current staff establishment. The report sought to address the need.

 

*RESOLVED –

 

1.   That the identified additional ICT posts be approved and added to the Council’s establishment.

 

2.   That the Executive Director and Assistant Director - Customers, Commissioning and Change be granted delegated authority, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Business Transformation, to recruit to the new posts, within the constraints of the ICT Improvement Programme approved budgets.

 

REASON FOR DECISIONS

 

To ensure the Council has the correct competence, capability and capacity to deliver the approved ICT Improvement Programme.