Agendas, reports and minutes

Minutes of Meeting of the Redesign Board of the Highland Council held in Committee Room 2, Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness on Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 3.30pm.

Present:
Mr B Lobban (Chair), Mr L Fraser, Mr A Jarvie    , Mr G MacKenzie, Mr C Smith, Mr P MacPherson, GMB

Officials in attendance:
Mr M MacLeod, Head of Planning and Environment/Council Redesign Lead 
Mrs C McDiarmid, Head of Policy and Reform
Ms S Beswick, Strategic Procurement Manager (Category Management)
Miss J Maclennan, Principal Administrator 

Business

1. Apologies for Absence

Apologies for absence were intimated on behalf of Mr G Adam, Mr R Bremner, Mrs C Caddick, Mrs H Carmichael, Mr A Christie, Dr I Cockburn, Mrs M Davidson, Mr J Gibson (UNISON), Mr A MacKinnon, Ms M Smith, Mr A Sinclair and Mrs C Wilson.

2. Declarations of Interest

Item 4 – Mr L Fraser (financial) 

3. Exclusion of the Public

The Board RESOLVED that, under Section 50A(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 6, 8 & 9 of Part 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act.  

4. Implementing the Redesign Review into Trades Services          

Declaration of Interest: Mr L Fraser declared a financial interest in this item as a Sub-Contractor for the Housing Service but, given the amounts were insignificant, having applied the test outlined in Paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3 of the Councillors’ Code of Conduct, concluded that his interest did not preclude his involvement in the discussion.

There had been circulated to Members only Confidential Report No RDB/6/19 by the Head of Policy and Reform (Project Sponsor). 

Following discussion, the Board AGREED the recommendations as detailed in the report, subject to the amendment to extend the timescale for procuring the framework agreement so that, having tendered in June 2019, award letters would be issued in November for the new framework to be in place by December 2019.  This timescale would also be adjusted on the agreed targets for the project board.

The meeting ended at 4 pm.