Issue - meetings

Update on Expansion of the Council Owned Company Optalis

Meeting: 30/03/2017 - Executive (Item 132)

132 Update on Expansion of the Council Owned Company Optalis PDF 82 KB

Decision:

That:

1) the update report and the progress made be noted;

2) the appointment of Councillors Anthony Pollock, Simon Weeks and David Lee to the Shareholder Reference Group, that will exercise governance over the Optalis Board, be noted;

3) the formal establishment of the new company, Optalis Ltd, owned jointly by Wokingham Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, which will go live and start to trade on 3 April 2017 be supported.

Minutes:

(Councillor Anthony Pollock declared a personal and prejudicial interest in this item and left the room for the discussion of this item)

The Executive considered a report setting out the progress of the merger with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) that accommodates Adult Social Care Services within Optalis Ltd.

The Leader clarified that Councillor Pollock had left the room during the discussion of the report due to the fact that he was currently Chairman of the Optalis Board and therefore potentially had a prejudicial interest. He went on to advise that Councillors Pollock and Weeks who were currently non-Executive Directors of Optalis, would be resigning from this position in order to sit on the Shareholder Reference Group.

Councillor McGhee-Sumner advised the meeting that given the progress being made and the significance of the step he wished to add a third recommendation which was asking the Executive to support the establishment of the new Optalis going live on 3 April. The revised recommendation was tabled and agreed by the Executive.

RESOLVED That:

1) the update report and the progress made be noted;

2) the appointment of Councillors Anthony Pollock, Simon Weeks and David Lee to the Shareholder Reference Group, that will exercise governance over the Optalis Board, be noted;