Issue - meetings

Potential shared management team with South Northamptonshire Council

 

 

Meeting: 06/12/2010 - Executive (Item 86)

86 Final business case for a shared management team between Cherwell District Council and South Northamptonshire Council pdf icon PDF 76 KB

Report of Portfolio Holder for Resources and Communications, Leader of the Council and Chief Executive

 

Summary

 

To consider the final business case for a shared management team between Cherwell District Council and South Northamptonshire Council.

 

** Please note Appendix 1, the Business Case has been distributed to all members under separate cover, please bring this with you to the meeting**

 

Recommendations

 

The Executive is recommended:

 

(1)               To recommend to Council at its meeting on 8th December 2010 that it approves the business case (and the eighteen specific recommendations included in it) for putting in place a shared management team between Cherwell District Council and South Northamptonshire Council by the end of September 2011.

 

(2)               To recommend to Council in addition that Council endorses the view of the Executive that, once a shared senior management team is in place, the Council can aspire to continued excellent performance.

 

(3)               To confirm that, after consultation with the Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny Committee, it is agreed that it is in the Council’s interest for this decision to be taken urgently and the right to call-in is waived to enable a binding decision to be taken by Council on 8th December.

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Decision:

Approved

 

Minutes:

The Portfolio Holder for Resources and Communications, Leader of the Council and Chief Executive submitted a report to consider the final business case for a shared management team between Cherwell District Council and South Northamptonshire Council.

 

Resolved

 

(1)               That Council be recommended at its meeting on 8 December 2010 to approve the business case and the eighteen specific recommendations included in it, (annex to the minutes as set out in the minute book) for putting in place a shared management team between Cherwell District Council and South Northamptonshire Council by the end of September 2011.

 

(2)               That Council be recommended to endorse the view of the Executive that, once a shared senior management team is in place, the Council can aspire to continued excellent performance.

 

(3)               That, it be confirmed following consultation with the Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny Committee, that it is in the Council’s interest for this decision to be taken urgently and the right to call-in is waived to enable a binding decision to be taken by Council on 8 December 2010.

 

Reasons

 

The Joint Working Group recommends that Cherwell District Council and South Northamptonshire Council put a shared management team in place by the end of September 2011. It is proposed that the Executive accept this recommendation and recommend this in turn to full Council who will take the final decision on whether to go ahead on 8 December 2010.

 

Options

 

Option One

Not to recommend the business case to full Council.

However, the financial benefits are clear and the risks of delivery are manageable. If this case was not to be recommended to full Council the £3.430m saving generated directly by the business case would have to be found from making cuts to the council’s own management team, from out-/in-sourcing a range of corporate services and almost certainly from cuts to other services, in light of the greater difficulty and time required in securing these alternative savings. Future savings of the type identified in the business case would also be foregone.