Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 12 September 2013.

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 12 September 2013 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Councillors and officers to declare any interests which they have in any of the items on the agenda for the meeting.

No declarations were made

To report any urgent action taken under the Constitution since the last meeting of the Committee.

No urgent decisions were reported.

Members of the public are invited to put questions to the Chair of the Committee on any matters within the powers and duties of the Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice (Questions must be submitted prior to the commencement of the meeting on the cards provided. These are available the meeting and at local libraries and information centres.  You can also submit via the Council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/publicquestions.

No public questions were submitted.

To consider whether it is in the public interest to exclude the public during the consideration of the remaining agenda item relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority); the disclosure of which would not be fair and would therefore be in breach of  Data Protection principles.

RESOLVED - That in order to prevent the disclosure of information which was not for publication relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority), the disclosure of which would not be in the public interest, would not be fair and would be in breach of Data Protection principles, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of Agenda Item 6 “Council Senior Management Structure.”

To consider a report of the Chief Executive.

Officer contact: Eamonn Boylan, Chief Executive on 0161 474 3001

E mail eamonn.boylan@stockport.gov.uk

The Chief Executive submitted report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out the current position and proposed further change to the Council’s Senior Management Team

This report set out proposed actions to restructure the senior team and re-align responsibilities as a result of changes previously agreed by the Appointments Committee and proposed reorganisation of the functions currently discharged by the Service Director (Legal, Democratic, Property and Information Services) who has tendered his resignation and will be leaving the Council at the end of the financial year.

RESOLVED – (1) That the arrangements being made to enable the implementation of previous decisions by this Committee to delete the posts of Service Director (Education) and the Assistant Chief Executive (Communications and External Relations) be noted.

(2) That the proposed arrangements to manage the departure of the Service Director (Legal Democratic, Property and Information Services) including the deletion of the post be approved.

(3) That the Council Meeting be recommended to make the interim appointment of Parveen Akhtar (Head of Legal and Democratic Governance) as the Council’s Monitoring Officer and that the Appointments Committee review this appointment after six months and that a decision as to whether to make this appointment permanent be delegated to that Committee

(4) That Donna Sager be designated Deputy Director of Public Health on a full time basis and that the post of Service Director (Transformation and Commissioning) be deleted.

(5) That Laureen Donnan be appointed Deputy Chief Executive as set out in Section 5 of this report.

(6) That the Chief Executive be requested to commission an independent review of the remuneration of Heads of Service with a view to bringing forward any recommendations for consideration by this Committee later in 2014.

(7) That the creation of a post of Head of Education as set out in paragraph 4 (1) of the report be noted.