Agenda and minutes

Administrative Committee - Thursday, 1 July 2021 7.00 pm

Contact: Michelle Beaumont  Email: m.beaumont@spelthorne.gov.uk

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Items
No. Item

206/21

Disclosures of interest

To receive any disclosures of interest from members in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

There were none.

207/21

Administrative Committee terms of reference pdf icon PDF 45 KB

To consider the Administrative Committees terms of reference as detailed in part 3b of the Councils constitution which can be found online here and are attached for ease. 

 

Minutes:

The Committee resolved to note the Terms of Reference.

208/21

Forward Plan pdf icon PDF 21 KB

To consider the Forward Plan for committee business.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee discussed the Forward Plan for future business.

 

The Committee acknowledged that the plan was a live document and would be updated as new items were submitted for inclusion.

 

The Chairman advised members that since the agenda had been published the date range on the Forward Plan had been amended to show that the plan covered the municipal year to 26 May 2022 and that an additional item, Revenue & Capital monitoring (Qtr. 1 April-June), had been added and requested that the Principal Committee Manager circulate the most up to date version of the plan to Committee members with the minutes.

 

Members raised several queries relating to programme management and service delivery, including customer contact response times, IT provision, programme management and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the change in location of polling stations at the most recent election. The Committee agreed that they would like an update on those items to be provided to the Committee at their next meeting in October.

 

The Committee resolved to note the Forward Plan subject to the following amendments and inclusion of the following items:

 

Amendments

1.    The Review of Procurement Strategy & Policies to be amended to reflect it is a Key Decision.

2.    The date in the heading of the Forward Plan be amended to reflect that the plan spans for the Municipal year until 26 May 2022.

 

Additional items

1.    An update on the status of the IT infrastructure review to be presented to the Committee on 7 October 2021.

2.    A review of programme management to include an update on the status of programmes.

3.    A report on the how decisions were made on the locations of and communications around polling stations at the recent election in May 2021.