If you are interested in Babergh and Mid Suffolk’s strategic priorities for the current financial year you can now take a look at today’s Strategy Committee Papers. (Follow the link here, and then click on the paper number alongside agenda item 8.)
When you create a joint officer structure for two councils, you then, of course, need a joint set of policies for them to follow. This document is a first attempt at synthesising Babergh and Mid Suffolk's strategic goals.
Not altogether surprisingly, given the quite similar nature of the areas under each body's control, their previous strategic aims were quite similar, and it has therefore not been too difficult to pull their two separate documents together.
This is just an interim paper however, and has been largely developed by the officers, to the dismay of one or two councillors, including myself, who would have preferred to have greater input into the process.
Time is short however since, although a little behind schedule, the creation of the new structure from a staffing point of view is continuing apace. * Over the rest of the year councillors will be looking at a good deal of evidence to enable us to create a completely new joint strategic approach for the future.
It will be interesting to see how far this differs from the interim document.
It will be interesting to see how far this differs from the interim document.
* a further paper on this subject can be found further down the agenda.
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