Issue - meetings

The Director of Finance and Corporate Services gave a brief overview of the work undertaken by the directorate during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Members are regularly updated in scrutiny committees on the annual budget cycle. They were provided with information on the impact and service demand in the following services due to the recent Covid-19 Pandemic.

·        Legal Services

·        Human Resources and

·        Finance Services.

Legal Services were commended for continually keeping up to date with legislation changes during these unprecedented times, to ensure the Council is working efficiently.

It was noted that the Council had continued to pay all staff during this pandemic and provided relief to businesses with their business rates. 

The Chair of Planning and Licensing Committees commended staff for their standard of work and providing support in enabling the committee’s to run as usual remotely.

The Committee noted the update.