Issue - meetings

[To consider the Select Committee Report in relation to The Wolverhampton Pound: Procurement, Contract Management and Commissioning]

That Council be recommended to:

1.    Endorse the recommendations in The Wolverhampton Pound Select Committee Action Plan attached at Appendix 2 to the report.

Councillor Ian Brookfield presented the Select Committee Report: The Wolverhampton Pound - Contract Management and Commissioning for recommendation to Full Council for approval of the Select Committee Action Plan.  Councillor Brookfield reported that The Wolverhampton Pound was the Council's attempt, with its city partners, to keep and recirculate as much of the public authority wealth, both economic and social within the city and its  communities. The more public authorities spend their own wealth within the city, that would continue to safeguard and create new jobs and make a substantial difference.

The Select Committee considered the following lines of inquiry:

·        ‘How do we engage with local businesses and the community and voluntary sector in relation to procurement, contract management and commissioning and how do we ensure inclusivity, equality and value for money in these approaches?’

·        How do we engage with partners, local businesses and the community and voluntary sector to make the City a catalyst for change by ensuring that all contracts reflect our values in areas such as climate change, equality, diversity and inclusion, retaining and growing local wealth and having a real presence in the City?’

Cabinet paid tribute to the Chair (Councillor Susan Roberts MBE) and members of the Select Committee for their excellent work. 

Resolved:

That Council be recommended to:

1.    Endorse the recommendations in The Wolverhampton Pound Select Committee Action Plan attached at Appendix 2 to the report.

[To receive the Select Committee Report on, The Wolverhampton Pound].