Issue - meetings

To receive and consider report 11/08 of the Principal Performance Management Officer. 

Introduction and Report Summary

In 2005 the Council’s published the first of a new style of Corporate Plan which covered the period 2005-08 and detailed its aims and priorities. Attached to this report (Appendix1) is a draft Corporate Plan 2008-12 which details the Council’s priorities, aims and the objectives for the next 4 years.

The contact officer for this report is Robert Woodside, Principal Performance Management Officer, telephone (01235 520202 ext 499).  Email address:  robert.woodside@whitehorsedc.gov.uk

Recommendations

(a)       that the Executive approve the draft Corporate Plan 2008-12 (Appendix 1) and recommend it to Council

(b)       that authority be delegated to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Group Leaders, to approve the final version of the Corporate Plan 2008-12

(c)        that authority be delegated to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Group Leaders, to approve an annual update to the Corporate Plan 2008-12  

(Time: 2.45pm to 2.53pm)

The Executive received and considered report 11/08 of the Principal Performance Management Officer, which sought Members' approval of the draft Corporate Plan 2008-2012.  The Corporate Plan detailed the Council’s priorities, aims and the objectives for the next four years.

Members highlighted several areas where the Council had performed well over the course of the 2005-2008 Corporate Plan, such as waste collection and recycling, the Council’s response to climate change, and the crime reduction partnership.  Looking forward to the new Plan period, it was considered that the Council needed to better highlight its successes and maintain high profile communications.  It was also suggested that there should be more profiling of the Council’s Members in literature.  Members supported the new Corporate Plan so long as it was achieved within existing resources. 

Members noted that a shorter version of the Plan would be produced once the full document had been approved by the Council. 

R E C O M M E N D E D

(a)       that draft Corporate Plan 2008-2012, as set out in Appendix A to these minutes, be approved;

(b)       that authority be delegated to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Group Leaders, to approve the final version of the Corporate Plan 2008-2012;

(c)        that authority be delegated to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Group Leaders, to approve an annual update to the Corporate Plan 2008-2012.