Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 112 (15 February 2011), the Leader of the Council reported on the creation of a new joint committee with the London Boroughs of Hackney, Greenwich, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest which would replace the Joint Committee of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Host Boroughs.

The Leader referred to the role of the new Growth Boroughs Joint Committee and acknowledged that issues such as employment and training were as important as the main transport and infrastructure objectives.  The Leader confirmed that those issues had already been discussed with the representatives of the Joint Committee and he also referred to the role of the North East London Strategic Alliance (NELSA), which included the London Boroughs of Enfield, Havering and Redbridge, in helping the Council to deliver its priority of “Growing the Borough”.

Officers were asked to ensure that details of the new Joint Committee’s forward plan and agenda papers are made available to Cabinet Members.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the disestablishment of the existing Joint Committee of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Host Boroughs and the establishment, with immediate effect, of a new Growth Boroughs Joint Committee;

(ii)  Agree that the Council joins and participates as a member of the Growth Boroughs Joint Committee;

(iii)  Agree that the Council:

(a)  enters into and signs up to the revised Inter-Authority Agreement and the revised Memorandum of Understanding (Annex A to this report) and any other necessary documents to be entered into by or between the six Growth Boroughs, and

(b)  delegates power to the Chief Executive to do everything and give effect to any matter necessary to achieve the Joint Committee’s objectives.

(iv)  Agree the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee as specified in Appendix 1 to the Inter-Authority Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding;

(v)  Agree that all executive powers, duties and functions required to be executed by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to facilitate the objectives of the Growth Boroughs Joint Committee are delegated to and be discharged by the Joint Committee; and

(vi)  Appoint Councillors Ashraf and Rodwell as the Council’s representatives on the new Growth Boroughs Joint Committee.