Agenda item

Report of The Town Clerk and Chief Executive.

Members received a Report of The Town Clerk, concerning Corporate and Business Planning.

Members welcomed the Report as a useful step in efforts to align the Corporate Plan with business planning and budget setting.

Members raised the wording in box 11 (page 22), around facilitating a “world- leading digital experience”. Some distinct departments across the City Corporation (such as the Guildhall School) had communications of a very good standard, however, due to the scale of the Corporation’s core Communications activities, progress across the board would, Members accepted, be a long-term project.

Members asked officers how they had planned to communicate the Corporate Plan to Members, the Town Clerk responded that a single top sheet that highlighted the high-level changes would go to all Committees. Ultimately, it was incumbent upon officers to treat the Plan as a working document, officers should be promoting the plan to Members throughout the five-year period 2018-23.

RESOLVED – That Members noted the Report.