Agenda and minutes

To receive any declarations of interest from Members of the Committee

There were no declarations of interest.

Report of the Chief Finance Officer (CenSus)

The Director of Corporate Resources introduced the Draft Revenue & Capital Budgets for 2017/18 report. It was reported that the budget for both ICT and Revenues & Benefits will increase on the previous year’s budget by £14,000. For Revenues and Benefits this was comprised of salary increments. For ICT, the increase allowed for a 1% salary pay award but a reduction in budgeted pension contributions.

RESOLVED

That the draft revenue and capital budgets for both the Revenues and Benefits Service and the ICT Service be approved.

Report of the Director for Corporate Resources (HDC)

The Head of Technology Services introduced the Future of CenSus ICT Partnership report. The proposed changes to the CenSus ICT Service could be summarised in four main elements:

a)      The transition of each Council’s data centres to the cloud.

b)      The transfer of staff to be employed by the Council where they are based.

c)      A review of the governance arrangements of the Partnership.

d)      A review of the cross-site, shared roles within the Partnership.

Members noted that changes to the CenSus Revenues and Benefits Service would be looked in to in the future.

Members discussed the potential of the CenSus Joint Committee being ‘modernised’ as well as the CenSus Services.

RESOLVED

i)              That the new strategic direction of the CenSus ICT Partnership to a shared cloud hosting environment, called the ‘CenSus Cloud’ be approved.

ii)             That the reallocation of unspent budgets to fund the transition to the new model be approved

iii)            That the proposed governance arrangements for the new ‘CenSus Cloud’ partnership be approved.