Decision

AGREED      that Cabinet endorse the
recommendations of the Working Group as follows:
 

a)           
that the amendment is made to the Council’s
website, including a postcode search for ‘find your ward
member’.(NB postcode search has now been
implemented);

b)           
that all elected councillors are automatically
signed up to the Council’s Official Newsletters;

c)            
the Communications & Marketing Team to set up a
further drop-in session for elected councillors to help with social
media and Google Alerts;

d)           
the posters consistent with the examples circulated
at the meetingwill be made available for all elected councillors to
use;

e)           
that the Democratic Services Team will re advertise
the allocated Democratic Services Officer (DSO) list and actively
promote the support they can offer to elected councillors;
and

f)             
that the Power BI system is developed and provided
to all councillors and that the system is further developed over
time to include other service requests and reports.