Decision details

To consider a report on the proposal to establish a Berkshire Prosperity Board as a joint committee with the other five Berkshire authorities, and make any recommendations to Council on this matter.

Cabinet agreed to:

1.  Approve the setting up of a joint committee across the six Berkshire local authorities to exercise executive functions in relation to economic prosperity.

2.  Delegate authority to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council and the Executive Director of Finance and Commercial, to agree and enter into an inter-authority agreement between the six Berkshire local authorities to facilitate decision-making by the Berkshire Prosperity Board Joint Committee (BPB)

Cabinet agreed to recommend to Council:

3.  Approval of the functions and procedure rules for the Berkshire Prosperity Board Joint Committee (BPB) as set out in Appendix 1 be added to Part 3.5 of the Constitution;

4.  Delegated authority to the Monitoring Officer, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to amend the Constitution to make minor amendments to the functions and procedure rules for the BPB and to amend other parts of the Constitution, including Article 13 – Decision Making, Part 4.2 - Access to Information Procedure Rules and Part 4.4 of the Executive Procedure Rules, to take account of the existence of the BPB.