Decision details

RESOLVED:

That Council:

(i)      Accepted the Headline Business Case for Transformation, attached in Appendix A including the vision and principles for transformation and noted the headline risks, and equality impact assessment included in this report

(ii)     Agreed the Transformation Programme governance arrangements as set out in section 6 of this report.

(iii)    Delegated authority to deliver the Programme to the Leader of the Council with the approval of the Programme Board.

(iv)   Approved that savings of £2,000,000 be added to the Medium Term Financial Plan for 2017/18 and 2018/19.

(v)    Approved that £59,975 for ongoing software maintenance costs is added to the Medium Term Financial Plan as an ongoing commitment from 2017/18.

(vi)   Approved that the £394,000 currently held in the Voluntary Redundancy Reserve is transferred to a new Transformation Reserve to fund this programme.

(vii)  Allocated £1,314,300 from capital receipts set aside in the budget for transformation to fund this programme.

(viii)Agreed that the further revenue cost of £2,754,000 is funded from the Revenue Support Reserve.

Reason:

To approve the principles and vision for the Council Transformation programme that will lead to the adoption of a new operating model.