Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decision required to implement proposals of
the Transforming Cities Fund for Skipton, Harrogate and
Selby
Having taken account of the comments made by
Executive Members, and all the relevant information provided at the
informal meeting of Executive Members on 25 January 2022, the Chief
Executive Officer agreed to use his emergency delegated powers to
approve that :
(i) The proposals for the Transforming Cities Fund projects in
Harrogate, Skipton and Selby be taken forward through detailed
design and that a Final Business Case be presented to WYCA for each
project.
(ii) The detail of the Final Business Cases for submission to WYCA
be delegated to the Corporate Director Business and Environmental
Services in consultation with the Executive Member for
Access.
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 (before the expiry of the Regulations)
that, for the present time, in light of the continuing Covid-19
pandemic circumstances, remote live-broadcast committee meetings
should continue as informal meetings of the committee Members, with
any formal decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive
Officer under his emergency decision making powers and after
consultation with other Officers and Members as appropriate and
after taking into account any views of the relevant Committee
Members and all relevant information. This approach has been
periodically reviewed since that time and will be further reviewed
by full Council at its February 2022 meeting.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Executive Members,
and made the decision set out above for the reasons set out in the
body of the report.
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Publication date: 27/01/2022
Date of decision: 25/01/2022
Effective from: 03/02/2022
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