Agenda and draft minutes

Venue: Council Chamber, Forde House, Brunel Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 4XX. View directions

Items
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13.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 61 KB

To sign the minutes of the meeting held on 5 October 2023.

 

Minutes:

The minutes of the previous meeting held on 5 October 2023 were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

14.

Declarations of Interest

Councillors are reminded of the need to declare any disclosable pecuniary

interests that relate to business on the agenda.

Minutes:

None

15.

Questions from the Public Under Procedural Rules

A period of up to 15 minutes will be set aside to deal with questions to the Committee from members of the public.

 

Each individual will be restricted to speaking for a total of 3 minutes.

 

Where a question does not relate to an agenda item details of questions should be notified to the Proper Officer of the Relevant Council at least two working days prior to the meeting.

Minutes:

None

16.

Question from Members of the Councils under Procedure Rules

To receive questions from Members of the Councils.

 

Where a question does not relate to an agenda item details of questions should be notified to the Proper Officer of the Relevant Council at least two working days prior to the meeting.

Minutes:

None

17.

Finance and performance update pdf icon PDF 141 KB

To consider the report of the Director of Finance

Minutes:

The Director of IT and Digital Transformation presented the updated which advised on the financial position of Strata.

 

The discussion included:

 

·       The increased staffing cost resulting from the pay award had been offset by cut in contract spending and increased profit.

·       6500 incidents had been logged in the previous month

·       The average feedback rating for strata support was 4.5 of 5

·       Differing levels of time required for differing scale of incidents

·       The two lowest levels on the scale were combined

·       Benchmarking and structure of accounts to determine cost

·       Positive feedback from Agilisys consulting

·       Provided sight of an additional slide that would be presented to JSC

 

 

RESOLVED that the update be noted.

18.

2024/25 Strata Business Plan pdf icon PDF 1 MB

To consider the report of the Director of IT and Transformation

Minutes:

The Director of IT and Digital Transformation introduced the plan to the Committee.

 

Strata Business Plan_v1.8 2.pdf (teignbridge.gov.uk)

 

 

The Committee were informed about the following:

·         Thousands of projects had been completed by Strata last year

·         Transformational changes were requested by the Executive

·         Linking of council strategies

·         Positive staff survey results

·         The move towards digital infrastructure and away from copper

·         Move away from global desktop

·         Loss of Skype system soon, requiring further transformation

·         Councils to work on data strategies

·         Move to use of sharepoint/cloud storage

 

The Committee discussed the impact of generative AI which was highlighted in the presentation. It was agreed that double-hatted members should be included in the information gathering process.

 

RECOMMENDED that the Business Plan be approved by the partner Councils.