Issue - meetings

Report No:   CAB/WS/20/003

Portfolio Holder: Cllr Sarah Broughton       Lead Officer: Rachael Mann

RESOLVED:

That:

1.       the revised Partnership Agreement attached as Appendix 1 to Report No: CAB/WS/20/003, be approved to have effect from 1 April 2019; and

2.       subject to approval by each partner authority, the revised agreement be signed and sealed by the Council (and each other partner authority).

The Cabinet considered this report which sought approval for proposed changes to the Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP) Constitution following its review by the Anglia Revenues and Benefits Partnership Joint Committee.

Attached as Appendix 1 was the proposed revised Anglia Revenues and Benefits Partnership Agreement. The revision to the terms of reference had been produced by the ARP’s Operational Improvement Board, as previously agreed by the Joint Committee. These amendments were largely required as a result of the creation of the new councils in East and West Suffolk; however, this also provided the opportunity to make other changes, as set out in the report. The Joint Committee was now recommending to all the partner authorities, approval of the revised Partnership Agreement.

Councillor Sarah Broughton, Portfolio Holder for Resources and Performance and Chair of the Joint Committee, drew relevant issues to the attention of Cabinet, including that the proposed changes to the ARP Constitution would ensure the ARP and its Joint Committee was operating within the most up to date governance arrangements.

RESOLVED:

That:

1.       the revised Partnership Agreement attached as Appendix 1 to Report No: CAB/WS/20/003, be approved to have effect from 1 April 2019; and

2.       subject to approval by each partner authority, the revised agreement be signed and sealed by the Council (and each other partner authority).