Decision details

(Councillor I C Bates declared a personal interest in the following item as a Member of Cambridgeshire County Council).

Further to Minute No. 04/20 and with the assistance of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Annex to the Minute Book), the Cabinet were updated with the details of negotiations with Cambridgeshire County Council in relation to the termination of the highways agency and the consequential impact on the District Council.

Having regard to the employment issues arising from the termination of the existing agreement, the potential for negotiating a new agreement and other organisational and service issues, it was

RESOLVED

  (a)that the termination of the existing Highways Agency Agreement on 31st March 2005 and the arrangements to be made to transfer 5 employees to Cambridgeshire County Council under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 be noted;

  (b)that the retention of a temporary employee currently assigned to the Highways Team be approved until June 2005;

  (c)that a full-time post to deal with land drainage/sewerage functions be established at an additional cost of £14,000 per annum with effect from 1st April 2005; and

  (d)that the Director of Operational Services be authorised after consultation with the Leader of the Council, to agree heads of terms in respect of a new agreement with the County Council for the discharge of the functions outlined in Section 3 of the report now submitted . 

To update the Cabinet on negotiations and to consider the consequential impact on the District Council.

None.