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To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Commission held on 27 May 2020. Minutes: RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Commission held on 27 May 2020 be approved as a correct record, and signed by the Chairman.
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Declarations of Interest and Party Whip Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests and the nature of that interest, including the existence and nature of the party whip, in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.
Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.
Any Member with an Affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting. There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest.
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Urgent Items of Business Any other items which, pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Chairman decides are urgent. Minutes: There were no items of urgent business.
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Public Participation To receive submissions from members of the public which have been submitted in advance in accordance with the Council’s Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny. Minutes: No submissions had been made by members of the public under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny.
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Customer Experience and Digital Strategies The Overview and Scrutiny Commission to consider the evidence pack and with consideration to earlier workshop activities will look at the priorities for the development of the new customer experience and digital strategies. Minutes: In advance of the meeting Bobby Mulheir, Assistant Director: Customer Experience, Digital and ICT presented background information and outlined the key themes for the development of the new customer experience and digital strategies. Members separated into three workshops to discuss:
The notes collected from the first group’s session were shared with the meeting and Councillor Tullett fed back on the group’s discussions:
The notes collected from the second group’s session were shared with the meeting and Councillor Mrs Birch fed back on the group’s discussions:
The notes collected from the third group’s session were shared with the meeting and Councillor Virgo fed back on the group’s discussions:
In response to a request that disabled people within the community were not forgotten and provided with support, Assistant Director: Customer Experience, Digital and ICT explained that accessibility was a key element of ... view the full minutes text for item 14. |
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ICT Performance during lockdown PDF 498 KB Bobby Mulheir, Assistant Director: Customer Experience, Digital and ICT to advise members of the actions taken to support remote working during lockdown. Minutes: Bobby Mulheir, Assistant Director: Customer Experience, Digital and ICT provided members with an update on the actions taken during the pandemic. Arising from the following discussion it was:
The Chairman of the Commission thanked the Assistant Director: Customer Experience, Digital and ICT and her team for running the workshop and attending the meeting.
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Overview and Scrutiny Commission work programme Further discussion of the work programme for the Commission:
· 12 August, new proposal to reinstate meeting with topic to be confirmed · 13 October, Review of four-year work programme · 11 November, Crime & Disorder Panel · 2 December, new proposal Climate Change Workshop · 6 January 2021, topic TBC Minutes: Councillor Angell, Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny Commission advised the meeting that he had suggested reinstating the meeting on 12 August 2020 so that the Commission could begin to question the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Council. This could be achieved by considering the Council’s Renewal Strategy and understanding the financial impacts of the national health pandemic. The following would be invited to attend the meeting:
He asked members of the Commission to start to think about the existing work programme and whether they wanted to continue with that or whether they had new ideas due to the changing circumstances facing the Council.
He suggested that an additional meeting in early September be set up to look at the current year’s Council’s budget.
Commission members supported the suggestions and discussed that:
Kevin Gibbs, Executive Director: Delivery advised that it was anticipated that two brief presentations would be provided to cover the Council’s Renewal Strategy and the national financial impact of Covid-19. |
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