The Leader, Councillor MA Hall, will announce his Executive as follows:
Cllr K Morrell (Deputy Leader)
Cllr CW Boothby
Cllr MA Cook
Cllr C Ladkin
Cllr M Nickerson
Cllr SL Rooney
Cllr MJ Surtees.
The Leader has aligned many of the following Executive responsibilities to the three key priority areas of the corporate plan: people, places and prosperity. There is a degree of cross over between these themes but the primary focus is clear.
Executive Leader of the Council – Cllr Mike Hall
Community leadership:
· Providing overall leadership and direction for the council
· Ensuring the council meets its duties to support vulnerable people and those who are most in need, recognising diversity and celebrating what unites us, and supporting an effective and viable voluntary and community sector
· Representing the council at East Midlands Councils and the Local Government Association (including the District Councils Network).
Economic development:
· Representing the council at Leicester & Leicestershire Economic Growth Board, LLEP, Coventry & Warwickshire LEP and Coventry, Warwickshire and Hinckley & Bosworth Committee
· Building the council’s reputation with peers and partners
· Promoting needs of Bosworth to other agencies through engagement with Midlands Connect, The Midlands Engine and appropriate combined authorities
· Chairing the A5 Partnership.
Corporate & Member Services:
· Finance & ICT
· Revenues & Benefits
· Customer Services
· Members & Democratic Services
· Elections
· Legal
· Civic Office
· Human Resources.
PEOPLE FOCUS
Executive member for culture, sport & leisure, communications & partnerships – Cllr Maureen Cook
· Helping people to stay healthy and active and to feel well
· Supporting and celebrating our cultural an heritage facilities and events for the benefit of residents and businesses alike
· Ensuring the council’s aims and services are promoted through the Borough Bulletin and other media
· Ensuring the council’s links through strategic partnerships and membership of outside bodies is always adding value.
PLACE FOCUS
Deputy Leader of the Council & Executive member for rural places and communities, tourism, licensing & environmental services – Cllr Kevin Morrell
· Supporting our rural communities and ensuring council services meet their needs
· Setting parameters for the Parish & Community Initiative Fund
· Ensuring rural development priorities are delivered through the Developing Communities Fund
· Ensuring older persons services enable and inspire older people to make the most of later life
· Ensuring the council supports our tourism partners in promoting our local attractions
· Ensuring performance of licensing and environmental services
· Acting as the council’s ambassador for fairtrade.
Executive member for development services – Cllr Stan Rooney
· Setting objectives and ensuring performance of planning services (applications, building control and enforcement)
· Supporting member decision making to deliver the council’s housing provision and avoid unnecessary appeals
· Ensuring building control and enforcement services are appropriate, timely and effective
· Providing executive leadership and support to local members and community groups during major development programmes
· Inspiring standards of urban design that create attractive places to live.
Executive member for housing & community safety services – Cllr Chris Boothby
· Council housing management and related services (homelessness)
· Housing repairs
· Private sector housing
· Ensuring the HRA business plan allows improvement of existing homes and enables the delivery of additional affordable housing
· Ensuring the council takes measures to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, protecting people from harm and making our neighbourhoods safer.
Executive member for neighbourhood services – Cllr Mark Nickerson
· Maintaining clean and attractive places to live and work
· Ensuring refuse & recycling, neighbourhood wardens, street cleaning, street scene and green space services meet the needs of the community and are delivered in an effective way
· Keeping our borough clean and green
· Protecting and improving our parks and open spaces for everyone across the borough.
PROSPERITY FOCUS
Executive member for regeneration, asset management & growth, children’s & young people’s services – Cllr Miriam Surtees
· Setting out the council’s direction and plans for employment and housing growth
· Providing plans to boost economic growth and regeneration
· Encouraging investment that will provide new jobs and places to live and work
· Ensuring delivery of the council’s own regeneration projects
· Working with partners to raise aspirations of residents and providing opportunities for employment and home ownership
· Ensuring performance of the Children’s and Young People’s services to give children and young people the best start in life and offer them the opportunity to thrive in their communities. Working with partners to increase quality and capacity for training opportunities.
Executive member for town & urban communities – Cllr Chris Ladkin
· Ensuring council services meet the needs of town and urban communities
· Supporting regeneration of our town centres
· Providing support and overseeing development of major retail centres and markets
· Ensuring council car parking meets the needs of people using towns for working, shopping or leisure
· Setting parameters for the Developing Communities Fund.
Minutes:
The Leader announced his Executive, indicating that he had sought to align the responsibilities to the corporate ambitions of people, place and prosperity:
Cllr MA Hall - (Leader of Council & Chairman of the Executive)
Executive member for community leadership, economic development and Corporate & Member Services
Cllr K Morrell - (Deputy Leader of Council & Vice-Chairman of the Executive)
Executive member for rural places, communities, tourism, licensing & environmental services
Cllr MA Cook - Executive member for culture, sport & leisure, communications & partnerships
Cllr SL Rooney - Executive member for development services
Cllr CW Boothby - Executive member for housing & community safety
Cllr M Nickerson - Executive member for neighbourhood services
Cllr MJ Surtees - Executive member for regeneration, asset management & growth, children’s & young people’s services
Cllr C Ladkin - Executive member for town & urban communities.