To agree the activities within the corporate delivery plan 2018/19.

The cabinet member, finance and corporate services introduced the item. The 2018-19 corporate delivery plan was aligned to the four corporate priorities of the council and was the third of four delivery plans in the current corporate plan cycle. The delivery plan set out the projects to be undertaken and measures to be used to judge progress, grouped under areas of activity. Some of the targets were still to be finalised as they relied on yearend figures from 2017-18 which were not yet available. It was noted that cabinet would receive quarterly performance reports through the year and that the targets in the plan would feed into directorate, team and individual plans.

In discussion of the proposed plan it was noted that:

·         provision for the pay settlement had been made and final confirmation was awaited from finance that the reserves in departmental budgets and the overall budget were adequate to meet increased staff costs;

·         good progress had been made in developing a relationship with NMiTE the university had met all the milestones set by the department for education and drawn down three tranches of funding, the general scrutiny committee had recommended that the audit and governance committee review the arrangements for council oversight and this was being arranged.

Group leaders were invited to give the views of their group. Concern was expressed that the measures used did not tally with all of the things that group leaders felt should be measured. The view was also expressed that it was premature to agree objectives before the previous yearend figures were known.

Resolved that:

a)    the draft corporate delivery plan 2018/19 at Appendix 1 be approved; and

b)    the assistant director environment and place be authorised to make presentational changes to the approved corporate delivery plan 2018/19 prior to publication, following consultation with the cabinet member finance and corporate services.