The Leader of the Council is elected by the
City Council and is responsible for all of the executive functions
of the Council – including most major decisions about service
delivery within the over-arching policies and budget set by the
City Council. He/ she can personally
make these decisions or choose to delegate them, including to the
Executive Board Commissioning Committee.
The Executive Board Commissioning Committee
oversees the Commissioning Framework across the City Council and
One Nottingham Strategic Partnership.
Commissioning is the cycle of assessing the needs of people,
designing services and monitoring their delivery and effectiveness
to ensure the best outcomes for local people making use of
available resources. The Committee sets
an annual work programme including the approval of procurement
plans and the commissioning, decommissioning and third sector grant
aid proposals above £25,000. A
decision is referred to as a ‘Key Decision’ if it will
result in the Council incurring expenditure or making income or
savings of £1,000,000 or more, or if it will have a
significant impact on two or more wards in the City. The intention to take a Key Decision is published
in advance in the ’28 Day Notice’.
The Committee’s membership is the Leader
of the Council and Executive councillors whose portfolios include
commissioning which falls within the Corporate Commissioning
Framework. Representatives of
Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) and Nottingham
Equal are non-voting members.
The Committee meets monthly and meetings are
open to the public.