Agenda

Meeting:

Shareholder Committee

Members:

Councillors Carl Les (Chairman), Gareth Dadd and Derek Bastiman.

Date:

Tuesday 19th March 2024

Time:

12.30 pm

Venue:

Room 3, County Hall, Northallerton

 

Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. This meeting is being held as an in-person meeting and is also ‘hybrid’, which enables people to attend the meeting remotely using MS Teams. Please contact the Democratic Services Officer whose contact details are below if you would like to find out more.

 

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public, please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings, a copy of which is available to download below. Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact, prior to the start of the meeting, the Democratic Services Officer whose contact details are below. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.http://democracy.northyorks.gov.uk/

 

Business

 

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1.  

Apologies for Absence

 

 

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2.  

Minutes of the meeting held on 14 November 2023

 

(Pages 5 - 6)

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3.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

All Members are invited to declare at this point any interests they have in items appearing on this agenda, including the nature of those interests.

 

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4.  

Public Participation

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to Elizabeth Jackson, Principal Democratic Services Officer, Elizabeth.jackson@northyorks.gov.uk  and supplied the text by midday on Thursday 14 March 2024, three working days before the day of the meeting.  Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item.  Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak:

·            at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes);

·            when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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5.  

Brierley Group Quarter 3 2023/24 Performance Report

(Pages 7 - 16)

 

 

Recommendation

 

For the Shareholder Committee to note the report and the Brierley Group Q3 Financial Performance for the 2023/24 year.

 

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6.  

Commercial Governance Review

(Pages 17 - 28)

 

 

Recommendations

 

Shareholder Committee are requested to:

 

i)      approve the recommendations as set out in each section of the report and as summarised in paragraph 11;

ii)     delegate the approval of the new conflicts of interest policy to the Assistant Chief Executive – Legal and Democratic Services; and

iii)   delegate all other necessary steps to secure the implementation of all other recommendations set out in this report to the Corporate Director, Resources.

 

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7.  

Border to Coast Governance Documents

(Pages 29 - 98)

 

 

Recommendations

 

The Shareholder Committee are requested to:

 

i)      approve the updated Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Limited governance documents at Appendix 1 and Appendix 2, being the Shareholder Agreement and the Pension Cost Recharge Agreement;

 

ii)     delegate the Council entering into the two agreements to the Assistant Chief Executive, Legal and Democratic Services. delegate the nomination of an appropriate shareholder representative on behalf of the Council to the Council’s Chief Executive Officer.

 

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8.  

Work Programme 2024/25

(Pages 99 - 100)

 

Purpose of the Report: To consider and develop the Work Programme for the Shareholder Committee

 

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9.  

Any Other Items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances

 

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10.  

Date of Next Meeting - 16 July 2024

 

 

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Members are reminded that in order to expedite business at the meeting and enable Officers to adapt their presentations to address areas causing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact Officers prior to the meeting with questions on technical issues in reports.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Contact Details

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda please contact Elizabeth Jackson, Principal Democratic Services Officer

Tel: 01423 556409 or e-mail: elizabeth.jackson@northyorks.gov.uk

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

 

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Monday 11 March 2024

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