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Matter for
Decision
The Officer’s report
summarised the performance for the 3Cs ICT, Legal Shared Services
and the Greater Cambridge Shared Internal Audit Service during 2019/20.
Decision of
Executive Councillor for Finance and Resources
i.
Noted the content of the
annual reports.
ii. Noted the
requirement for renewal of the 3Cs services partnership agreement the principle
variations planned
iii. Delegated
authority to the Chief Executive and Strategic Director to finalise and agree
the renewed partnership agreement by September 2020, in consultation with
Executive Councillor, Chair and Spokes.
Reason for the
Decision
As set out in the
Officer’s report.
Any Alternative
Options Considered and Rejected
Not applicable.
Scrutiny
Considerations
The Committee
received a report from the Strategic Director.
The Committee made
the following comments in response to the report:
i. Asked if consideration had been given to
greater shared scrutiny between the authorities, such as meeting virtually.
There had been recently been a couple of ICT outages and suggested it could
have been resolved more efficiently if all stake holders had been involved.
ii. Enquired why the city council’s consumption
of legal services was higher than South Cambridgeshire District Council and
Huntingdonshire District Council.
The Strategic
Director said the following in response to Members’ questions:
i.
There had been a previous proposal for a
shared scrutiny committee. However, there were complications for agreeing the
overall decision-making process in line with each authorities’ constitution and
the number of member allocations. Therefore, it had been decided not to pursue
this further.
ii.
The level and complexity of the services
delivered by the city council was currently greater than the other two local
authorities therefore more advice and support was required from legal services
when dealing with issues such as commercial portfolios.
The Executive
Councillor for Finance and Resources made the following comments:
i.
Echoed
the technical difficulties that had occurred when investigating a greater
scrutiny committee; the executive councillor and scrutiny model used by the
City Council was not compatible with the other local authorities.
ii.
Officers
across the local authorities had regular debate and communication on the
business plans and services. This worked well and there was no need to change.
The Committee unanimously
resolved to endorse the recommendations.
The Executive
Councillor approved the recommendations.
Conflicts of
Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any Dispensations Granted)
No conflicts of
interest were declared by the Executive Councillor.