Issue - meetings

For Board member’s to discuss the number and frequency of Orbis Joint Committee meetings which take place each year.

Declarations of interest:

None.

Witnesses:

Adrian Stockbridge, Orbis Programme Manager

Key points raised during the discussion:

1.           A discussion was had around the frequency of Orbis Joint Committee meetings. Members agreed that the number of formal public meetings should be reduced to two a year and that there should be an additional two informal private meetings a year.

Actions/ further information to be provided:

That the number of formal public meetings conducted by the Orbis Joint Committee should be reduced to two a year and that there should be an additional two informal private meetings a year.

RESOLVED: That:

theOrbis Joint Committee agree the number of meetings that the Joint Committee will have each year.

Report by the Chief Operating Officer

6.1       The Lead Member considered a report by the Chief Operating Officer.

DECISIONS

6.2       RESOLVED: (1) to agree that Councillor David Elkin (Lead Member for Resources) be appointed as the ESCC representative on the Orbis Joint committee; and

(2) to approve the draft Terms of Reference for the Orbis Joint Committee (attached at Appendix 1 of the report).

Reasons

6.3       The draft Terms of Reference have been considered by the Shared Service Programme Board, and the Joint Committee will oversee the development and delivery of the shared service between East Sussex and Surrey County Councils.