Agenda item

The following items of urgent business were raised –

i) the Committee considered a late paper concerning the Pay Policy Statement for 2021/22.

The Chair apologised for the late circulation and proposed that the Statement was circulated to Members again after the meeting to seek their views over the next seven days, after which the finalised Statement would be approved under delegated authority. Members agreed with this course of action.

RESOLVED – that the Committee agreed to delegate authority to the Town Clerk, in consultation with the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Establishment Committee, to approve the finalised version of the Pay Policy Statement 2021/22, before further consideration by the Policy & Resources Committee and the Court of Common Council in February and March respectively.

ii) noting that the responsibility for the appointment of senior officers had been, hitherto, specified in several different Committee’s Terms of References, the Chair tabled a revised schedule which reflected the new responsibilities per the Target Operating Model. Members endorsed the revised schedule, and given its impact on multiple Terms of References, agreed to its onward submission to the Court of Common Council for final approval.  

iii) date of next meeting - the Chair re-confirmed that the next meeting of the Committee had been moved from 17^th March to the 26^th March (PM).

iv) on behalf of the Committee, the Chair thanked all staff members for the efforts they were making to ensure the work of the Corporation is running smoothly; they asked the Town Clerk to pass on these thanks via the regular TC staff email update.

v) the Chair expressed their public apologies to Colin Buttery for misspeaking at a meeting of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee earlier in the week – the post of Open Spaces Director was not being deleted and the Chair praised Colin for his first rate work.