Decision details

Improving Greater Cambridge Partnership Governance

Decision Maker: Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

 

The Joint Assembly RECOMMEND that the Executive Board:

 

a)    Agrees the Portfolios, the generic portfolio role description and their allocation between Board members (Appendix 1);

 

b)    Agrees to the creation of the five, portfolio-themed informal Board and Joint Assembly Working Groups to bring the energy and expertise of Joint Assembly members to strategy and project development earlier and agrees their membership and terms of reference (Appendix 2);

 

c)    Agrees Board meetings should be 2-monthly during 2018, with a review of frequency midway through the year;

 

d)    Agrees there should be a longer interval between the Assembly and Board of around 3 weeks as soon as practicable and notes the proposed reporting improvements of that advice at appendix 3;

 

e)    Agrees the principles for officer delegations and scheme of delegation for the Greater Cambridge Partnership in Appendix 4;

 

f)     Notes and endorses the principles for the setting of the Joint Assembly work programme in Appendix 5;

 

g)    Agrees to a review of governance arrangements commencing a year after implementation, to consider how effective the changes have been; and

 

h)    Notes other actions taken to improve public questions and ensure all Executive Board member declarations of interest are up to date.

 

The Joint Assembly AGREED that, subject to the Executive Board’s decision on the package of measures to strengthen governance and member involvement (as summarised in recommendations a – h above), to:

 

a)    Agree its nomination of members to the proposed Portfolio Working Groups as set out below:

 

Housing and Strategic Planning

 

Councillor Lewis Herbert *

Councillor Kevin Price

Councillor Tim Wotherspoon

Councillor John Williams

Andy Williams

 

Transport

 

Councillor Ian Bates *

Councillor Tim Bick

Councillor Noel Kavanagh

Sir Michael Marshall

Dr John Wells

Councillor Kevin Cuffley

Helen Valentine

Councillor Bridget Smith

Skills

 

Mark Reeve *

Councillor Bridget Smith

Sir Michael Marshall

Mark Robertson

Councillor Kevin Price

Councillor Kevin Cuffley

 

Smart Places

 

Councillor Francis Burkitt *

Claire Ruskin

Helen Valentine

Andy Williams

Councillor Tim Wotherspoon

Councillor John Williams

Councillor Dave Baigent

 

Economy and Environment

 

Professor Phil Allmendinger *

Councillor Tim Bick

Claire Ruskin

Dr John Wells

Councillor Noel Kavanagh

Councillor Grenville Chamberlain

Councillor Dave Baigent

 

* proposed Portfolio Holder/Executive Board Member;

 

b)    Agree the draft principles for setting its Work Programme (at appendix 5 to the report), which set it within the overall Greater Cambridge Partnership governance framework; and

 

c)    Agree to a Joint Assembly work shop on the work programme, to be scheduled around the turn of the year.

Publication date: 20/07/2017

Date of decision: 19/07/2017

Decided at meeting: 19/07/2017 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly

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