The Leader appoints, from among the Cabinet members, Portfolio Holders to act as spokespersons for the service areas.
The Portfolio Holders need to:
- Help with the development and delivery of the Council’s policy framework;
- Work with officers and local public, private, voluntary, and community sector organisations to address local needs;
- Present reports to Scrutiny committees;
- Represent the views of the Council on matters of corporate or strategic policy and
- Participate in consultative arrangements and actively engage in dialogue with officers and organisations involved in portfolio issues.
The following duties are those which are common to Portfolio Holders:
- Attend Cabinet Catch up each Monday 5pm - 6pm, providing direction and guidance on strategic matters and reviewing Cabinet reports;
- Attend LCG as scheduled to discuss strategic matters with Group Leaders, including reviewing Cabinet reports;
- Attend public meeting of the Cabinet every six weeks;
- Attend public meeting of the Council 8 to 10 times a year;
- Occasional attendance at the meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee. Preparation has to be done ahead of this meeting so that questions can be answered;
- Writing the Portfolio Holder statement for Council;
- Providing strategic direction for the relevant service area(s) in liaison with the Head of Service(s);
- Liaising with report authors within their PH remit to provide a strategic approach to draft reports at appropriate approval stages;
- Possible post-meeting work for any questions that need clarifying and answers that need adding to;
- Dealing with correspondence relating to their portfolio, including;
- Responding to relevant media enquires in liaison with the Media Team;
- Attending relevant working parties & outside bodies (where appointed as Cabinet representative);
- Confidentially (i.e. not shared with opposition Groups) discuss possible options they may wish to propose and the viability of them;
- Meeting with Head of Service (s) at least every month to review strategic service area matters:
- Review Service area plan (which includes main aspects of workload, major work streams, performance and risk register)
- Budget updates/planning
- Appropriate Staffing matters
- Confidentially advise on approaches administration may wish to take
Warwick District Council Portfolio Holders
- Councillor Ian Davison - Strategic Leadership
- Corporate Policy
- Strategic Partnerships
- Leisure Development Programme
- Programme Team - Development & Delivery of Major public realm projects
- Information Governance
- Civic & Committee
- Performance Management
- Corporate Support
- Electoral Services
- Climate Emergency Action Plan
- Biodiversity Action Plan
- Councillor Jonathan Chilvers - Resources
- Accountancy
- Audit & Risk
- Procurement, Purchasing & Payments
- Exchequer (Council Tax & Business Rates
- Financial oversight of Milverton Homes
- Councillor Lowell Williams - Climate Change
- Strategy for new WDC buildings (including housing stock) being zero carbon in use
- High-level framework for decarbonisation of existing Council homes and all Council buildings
- Councillor Paul Wightman - Housing
- Housing Needs
- Landlord Services (less Community Health & Well-being)
- Housing Strategy and Development
- Business Development and Change, within Housing
- Milverton Homes and Joint venture
- Delivery of new homes
- Delivery of retro fit of fire safety, decent homes and decarbonisation programmes of HRA stock
- Compliance, Repairs & Maintenance Facilities
- Technical Surveying & management of contracts for Housing Investment Programme / Decent Homes works
- Building Surveying
- Internal Health & Safety
- Delivery of retro fit of fire safety, and decarbonisation programmes of Non HRA buildings
- Councillor Ella Billiald - Arts and Economy
- Economic Development & Regeneration
- Including events, markets and tourism
- Arts & Culture
- Town Hall
- Spa Centre
- Pump Rooms
- Art Gallery & Museum and
- Arts development
- Economic Development & Regeneration
- Councillor Chris King - Place
- Building Control
- Development Management
- Development Control
- Planning Enforcement
- Land Charges
- Planning Conservation
- Planning Policy & Delivery, including Local Plan and all DPD's
- Councillor Will Roberts - Neighbourhood
- Bereavement Services
- Contract Services
- Public Conveniences
- Off street Car Parking & Rangers
- Refuse & Recycling Collections
- Street Cleansing
- Grounds Maintenance
- Green Spaces
- Play Areas
- Green Space strategy
- Wildlife Strategy
- Councillor Jim Sinnott - Communities and Leisure
- Environmental Health & Licencing
- Environmental protection
- Food safety
- Health & Safety
- Licensing
- Community Safety
- CCTV
- Emergency Planning
- Community Safety
- Safeguarding
- Sports & Leisure
- Leisure contracts
- Outdoor sport
- Active communities
- Communities
- Health & Wellbeing
- Environmental Health & Licencing
- Councillor Jessica Harrison - Transformation
- Helpdesk & Technical Support
- Infrastructure,
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Digital Mapping Services
- Local Land & Property Gazetteer (LLPG)
- Street Naming & Numbering
- Transformation & Applications Support
- Benefits & Customer Services
- Broadband delivery
- People
- HR
- Employee relations
- People Management
- Corporate Payroll
- Learning & Development
- Marketing & Communications
- Media
- Design
- Website
- Print Room