Decision details

Council considered a detailed report, presented by the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Governance, which sought Members’ approval for a change to the officer delegation scheme in the Council’s Constitution, relating to acceptance of external funding and its associated terms.

The Council received funding from various organisations, however, there was no specific power for officers to accept it and therefore they used their general day to day administrative powers for amounts below the key decision threshold.

Where the amount of the funding was over a key decision threshold, approval to receive the funding and agreement of any funding conditions, must be granted by the Executive.  Occasionally, the deadline to agree to accept funding did not match the Executive meeting schedule and so the Chief Executive was required to exercise urgency powers.

It was proposed to change the officer delegation scheme for the delegation to Assistant Directors and Directors to:

“To agree to the receipt of any external funding below the key decision level and the acceptance of any associated funding conditions”,

and the proposed wording of the delegation to the Chief Executive to:

“To agree to the receipt of any external funding and the acceptance of any associated funding conditions”.

Moved by Councillor Duncan McGregor and seconded by Councillor John Ritchie

RESOLVED that the changes to the Officer Delegation Scheme be approved.