Agenda and draft minutes

Apologies were received from Councillors Richardson, Pugh and Carnac.

There were no substitutes for the meeting.

Under the operating arrangements the Chairman for the municipal year 2022/23 will be a representative of Canterbury City Council and the Vice-Chairman will be a representative of Thanet District Council.

It was proposed, seconded and when put to vote by show of hands unanimously

RESOLVED:

That Councillor Fitter-Harding be elected Chair for the municipal year 2022/23.

(Councillor Fitter Harding then took the Chair for the remainder of the meeting)

It was proposed, seconded and when put to vote by show of hands unanimously

RESOLVED:

That Councillor Ashbee be elected Vice Chair for the municipal year 2022/23.

To confirm as a true record.

The minutes of the meeting held on 10th September, 2021 were agreed as a true record by general assent.

To receive any decisions of interest.

There were no declarations of interest for the meeting.

There was no urgent business.

TO RESOLVE – That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act or the Freedom of Information Act or both.

It was proposed, seconded and when put to vote by show of hands unanimously

RESOLVED: That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act or the Freedom of Information Act or both.

TO CONSIDER the report from the Head of ICT.

The Head of ICT, EKS introduced the report that seeked authority from the committee to partially disband EK Services by bringing in-house part of ICT, Contract and Procurement Service.

It was proposed, seconded and when put to vote by show of hands unanimously

RESOLVED:

1. That part of the ICT, Contract and Procurement Service is taken in-house by each partner Authority.

2. That a residual EK Services team remains in place to support the partner Authorities with Security, Software and Database Administration until the end of March 2024 and to provide ICT, Contract and Procurement and Quality Assurance support to the Civica contract on an on-going basis.

Reason for the decision: Taking the service back in-house would enable each Council to design the service to meet their specific needs, and would give each Council direct control over an essential service area and avoided unwieldy service management and recharging arrangements. All three councils have already individually agreed to these arrangements.

It may be necessary to exclude the press or public for this item.

There was no other business.