Agenda item

The report of the Leader of the Council was submitted providing an update on activity to deliver the Council Strategy 2016-2020 and an update following the LGA Peer Challange.

RESOLVED:

(i)   To approve the key areas of focus within each outcome (Appendix 1)

(ii)  To approve the Executive’s Commitments (Appendix 2)

(iii)  To thank the LGA Peer Challenge team for their report (Appendix 3) and accept their recommendations.

(iv)  To note the council’s responses to the LGA Peer Challenge recommendations and that actions relating to them have been incorporated into the draft Outcome Plans (Appendix 4).

(v)  To approve the draft Outcome Plans (Appendix 5) and delegate authority jointly to the Interim Deputy Chief Executive and the Service Director, Finance and Commercialisation to finalise and make any further changes to the agreed Outcome Plans, following discussion with Leader and Cabinet.

(vi)  To note the explicit alignment and linkage between Council Strategy, Medium Term Financial Strategy, Workforce Development Strategy, Customer Strategy and the Digital Strategy as shown in Appendix 6.