Agenda item

The delegated powers within Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure have been amended following changes to the Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure structure approved at the last meeting of the Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure Committee.

The Council had before it a report by the Director of Corporate Governance which made amendments to the Council’s Scheme of Delegated Powers to take account of the new management and committee structure and suggested additional delegated powers designed to streamline Council processes.

The report explained that the Council’s Scheme of Delegated Powers was last revised in February 2008, and that since then the Council had agreed and implemented a new management and committee structure, as well having approved a revised version of its Standing Orders. Officers within Legal and Democratic Services had updated the Scheme making changes in order that it aligned to the new structures, as well as adding additional delegated powers that had been granted since February 2008. Revised versions pertaining to each Directorate were sent to Directors asking if there were any additional powers that they required and/or if there were any powers that were in place that were no longer required or needed to be modified. In conjunction with this work, a benchmarking exercise was undertaken which compared Aberdeen City Council’s Scheme with that of three high performing Scottish local authorities, namely East Dunbartonshire Council, Glasgow City Council and West Lothian Council.

The report appended the draft Scheme of Delegated Powers and summarised the extent of the changes within each Directorate or section.

The report recommended:-

that the Council -

(a)              approve the Scheme of Delegated Powers appended to the report subject to any amendments, deletions or additions; and

(b)              instruct the Corporate Management Team to review the Scheme of Delegated Powers on a regular basis, reporting to Council annually with any proposed amendments, deletions or additions requiring approval.

The Council resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.