Issue - meetings

The Shadow Executive considered a report which was listed as item 8 on the agenda for the Executive meeting on 11 July, at page 63.  The report presented proposals for the organisational structure of the Council’s new Directorate of City Strategy, which came into being on 1^st April 2006.

Having discussed the issues set out in the report and questioned officers present at the meeting, the following comments were agreed:

The Shadow Executive:

·  Reiterate their wider concerns regarding strategic functions not sitting within the Chief Executive’s Department.

·  Request that an appropriate title be agreed for the Assistant Director with responsibility for partnerships and the economy.

RESOLVED:(i) That the Executive be asked to take the above comments into account when considering this item.

                        (ii)        That the item not be called in.