Minutes:
Decisions:
1. That the
intention of the Corporate Health Group to establish an NPT Staff Association
and its day to day management of the Association to be undertaken by an
Executive Committee with outline terms of reference, as set out at Appendix 1
to the private circulated report, with a detailed Constitution being developed,
be noted;
2. that the NPT Staff Association will
establish a Private Society Lottery and
Employee Wellbeing Fund that will benefit its members, and the Executive
Committee will make decisions in relation to those funds, in line with the
terms of reference at Appendix 1 to the private circulated report, and in
accordance with the detailed Constitution, be noted.
3. that the part-time administrative post within the
Corporate Strategy and Democratic Services Department to provide the
administrative service that the Executive Committee will need, including the
use of Council facilities, be approved, with the salary cost of the
administrative post to be met in full by the lottery funds, and the appointee
to be seconded from the existing workforce;
4. that the proposal that the Internal Audit
Service to audit the lottery and employee wellbeing funds, with the cost of the
audit work to be met from the funds, be approved;
5. that the
proposal that the Finance Department
make staff lottery deductions from the payroll, to charge the NPT Staff
Association an administration fee equivalent to 2% of deductions, and to pay
over the funds generated to the lottery prize fund and employee wellbeing fund
to a bank account to be controlled by the NPT Staff Association through its
Executive Committee, be approved;
6. That the
Communications department be authorised to assist in
promoting the NPT Staff Association, associated lottery and employee wellbeing
initiatives, the costs of which to be borne by the lottery fund.
Reasons for Decisions:
To
create an NPT Staff Association and to provide authority for services to be
provided to the Executive Committee of the Association by the Council, on a
chargeable basis.
Implementation
of Decisions
The
decisions are for immediate implementation.