Decision details

The Head of Corporate and Community Services tabled draft corporate priorities for consideration by the Committee.  He advised the Committee that the Council was required to produce a Corporate Plan which set out the vision and corporate priorities for the forthcoming year and longer term.  It was important that the plan was in place as a priority.  He outlined the draft corporate priorities and the plans which would underpin each priority as detailed on the tabled paper.  A delivery plan would be produced containing specific actions for each priority, which would be continuously reviewed.   A report regarding the Council’s response to the Climate Change Emergency declaration would be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.  It was recommended that a cross party working group be appointed to formulate the Corporate Plan and that consultation with the public and all Councillors would be undertaken as part of the process. It was proposed that the timetable for the adoption of the Corporate Plan would be as follows:

18^th July 2019 – Policy Development Committee

5^th August 2019 – Strategy and Resources Committee

25^th September 2019 – Council to adopt the Corporate Plan

The Committee considered that the priority “developing visions for the main towns of North Devon” under the heading of “North Devon Future” should also include reference to the “communities of North Devon”.