Agenda and minutes

There we no apologies for absence.

The Executive is asked to approve the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 6 September 2018.

The Executive considered the minutes of the meeting held on 6 September 2018.

The Executive queried the actions in the minutes relating to council tax and empty homes and was informed that these would be chased up.

RESOLVED:

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 6 September 2018 for signature by the Chair.                        

A copy of the Register of Interest for each Selby District Councillor is

available for inspection at www.selby.gov.uk.

Councillors should declare to the meeting any disclosable pecuniary

interest in any item of business on this agenda which is not already

entered in their Register of Interests.

Councillors should leave the meeting and take no part in the

consideration, discussion or vote on any matter in which they have a

disclosable pecuniary interest.

Councillors should also declare any other interests. Having made the

declaration, provided the other interest is not a disclosable pecuniary

interest, the Councillor may stay in the meeting, speak and vote on that

item of business.

If in doubt, Councillors are advised to seek advice from the Monitoring

Officer.

There were no declarations of interest.

Report E/18/23 asks the Executive to consider its member of the North Yorkshire Procurement Partnership.

Councillor Cliff Lunn, Lead Executive Member for Finance and Resources presented the report which asked the Executive to consider its membership of the North Yorkshire Procurement Partnership.

The Lead Executive Member for Finance and Resources explained that it was proposed in the report to withdraw from the partnership. The Executive was informed that from April 2017, the allocation of resources from the partnership had been reduced from three days to one and that a withdrawal from the service would eliminate the need to pay the annual charge of £24,000. It was noted that North Yorkshire County Council had set up a procurement group involving all of the district councils in the area.

Additionally, the Lead Executive Member for Finance and Resources explained that once the partnership had been dissolved, any financial reserves would be divided up amongst all of the authorities.

RESOLVED:

To approve the withdrawal of Selby District Council from the North Yorkshire Procurement Partnership Joint Committee from 31^st March 2019 through a mechanism of not renewing membership upon expiry of the current agreement.

REASON FOR DECISION:

Organisational capacity has been developed as part of the organisational review to meet the Councils commissioning and procurement requirements from internal resources. Support from NYPP has reduced from 3 days to 1 per week during the same period, reflecting the development of internal capacity. The current partnership agreement expires on 31^st March 2019 and provides an opportunity to exit the arrangement on this date. Notification of the intention not to renew can be made at the partnership committee meeting mid October 2018 allowing time to agree an exit plan to mitigate any risks.