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The Executive RESOLVED to
approve:
      
I.         
The Joint Head of Paid Service’s proposal to
create a role of Joint Executive Head - Legal as set out in para
15.1 of this report;
    
II.         
The Joint Head of Paid Service’s proposal to
create a role of Joint Executive Head - Democracy & Governance
as set out in para 15.1 of this report;
   
III.         
The Joint Head of Paid Service’s proposal to
create a Joint Executive Advisory and Support team as set out in
para 6.4 of this report to include two new posts of Joint Executive
Advisory and Support Manager and Joint Executive
Advisor.   The Joint Executive
Advisory and Support Manager will provide advisory support as well
as management of the existing Joint Executive support
team;
  
IV.         
The Joint Head of Paid Service’s proposal to
create a new post of Joint Head of Governance as set out in para
15.2 of this report;
    
V.         
The Joint Head of Paid Service’s proposal to
amend the existing three Waverley Borough Council posts of Senior
Governance Officer, Senior Corporate Governance Lawyer and
Monitoring Officer assistant to be joint roles operating across
Waverley and Guildford Councils
  
VI.         
The increase to the Waverley Legal & Democratic
Services salary budget for 24/25 of £179,329 as set out in
para 10.6 of this report and the future growth for subsequent
years
 VII.         
An additional one-off cost of £40,662 to Waverley Council which is a 50%
contribution towards the cost of two interim Governance Officers
for 6 months and offset against existing salary
budget;
VIII.         
A supplementary estimate of £220k for Waverley
Council to cover the ongoing growth and the short term cost of the
interim resource will need to be funded by the repurposing of
reserves;
  
IX.         
To delegate authority to the Monitoring Officer to
amend the current inter-authority agreement between Guildford
Borough Council and Waverley Borough Council to include the new
joint roles as set out in this report.
    
X.         
To note that the implications of these proposals
have been considered in the context of restructures already
concluded in GBC and WBC Legal Services and work about to commence
in Waverley Democratic Services.
The Executive RECOMMENDS to Council
 

      
I.         
That Full Council approve the making of all
necessary arrangements for the discharge of functions through joint
arrangements between Waverley Borough Council and Guildford Borough
Council, by officers of Waverley Borough Council, as set out in
this report, and for such arrangements to be included in the
inter-authority agreement in accordance with s113 Local Government
Act 1972.