Issue - meetings

(A report by James Gilbert, Assistant Director – Corporate, Christian Allen, Assistant Director – Regulatory and Phil Norman, Assistant Director – Planning)

Portfolio Holder: Councillor Sandeep Ghosh

Councillor Sandeep Ghosh presented a report which sought to secure funding to align the multiple Case Management Systems in place in the Planning and Regulatory Directorates in Boston and South Holland to the Uniform system currently being deployed at East Lindsey District Council.

As well as the revenue savings identified within the report, an alignment would unlock further significant efficiency savings by enabling teams to come together across the Partnership aligning processes and procedures. An alignment would also benefit the Wellbeing and Community Leadership Directorate, in particular the Housing Standards Team.

Members discussed the report and commented as follows:

·       Aligning the systems would help officers that were working across the three authorities. It would also help with forthcoming service reviews.

·       Members agreed it was important to streamline the services for efficiency and that staff would adapt to the changes.

The recommendations were moved by Councillor Sandeep Ghosh and seconded by Councillor Emma Cresswell.

RESOLVED:

1.     That the addition of £339,869 to the Council’s Capital Programme to enable the project’s delivery to be financed, as described in paragraph 2.8 within the report, be approved; and

2.     That the addition of the projected savings to the Councils multi-year savings and transformation plan, as overseen by the Finance Portfolio Holder, be approved.