Issue - meetings
One-Year Publica Business Plan
Meeting: 22/07/2024 - Executive (Item 212)
212 One-Year Publica Business Plan 
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Purpose:
To consider the Draft Publica Business Plan 2024-25, produced by the Publica Board in consultation with Directors and Shareholders, and to recommend that the Leader (as Shareholder Representative) approves the plan.
Recommendations:
That the Executive resolves to:
1. Note the 2024/25 Publica Business Plan;
2. Note that the Leader of the Council, as shareholder representative, will approve the Publica Business Plan 2024-2025 in due course.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
Giles Hughes, Chief Executive, introduced the report by invitation of the Leader, which considered the Draft Publica Business Plan 2024-25 produced by the Publica Board, in consultation with Directors and Shareholders, and recommended that the Leader (as Shareholder Representative) approve the plan.
Councillor Andy Graham proposed that the Executive agree to the recommendations as listed on the report. This was seconded by Councillor Duncan Enright, was put to a vote, and was unanimously agreed by the Executive.
The Executive Resolved to:
- Note the 2024/25 Publica Business Plan;
- Note that the Leader of the Council, as shareholder representative, will approve the Publica Business Plan 2024-2025 in due course.
Meeting: 17/07/2024 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 23)
23 One-Year Publica Business Plan PDF 69 KB
Purpose:
To consider the Draft Publica Business Plan 2024-25, produced by the Publica Board in consultation with Directors and Shareholders.
Recommendations:
The Committee notes the report and agrees any recommendations it wishes to make to the Executive on 22 July 2024.
The Executive is recommended to:
1. Note the 2024/25 Publica Business Plan;
2. Note that the Leader of the Council, as shareholder representative, will approve the Publica Business Plan 2024-2025 in due course.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Chief Executive introduced the report that considered the Draft Publica Business Plan 2024-25, produced by the Publica Board in consultation with Directors and Shareholders, and that recommended the Leader (as Shareholder Representative) approved the plan.
It was explained that the purpose of the plan had been updated from the previous version first introduced and was now as follows:
· Acknowledge Publica (and the Shareholder Councils) were in a ‘transitional period’ to staff and interested parties such as Councillors and Ubico, Publica’s sister Teckal company;
· Provide clear messages to employees and interested parties on the priorities over the next year as part of a change management strategy;
· Ensure there was a clear focus on supporting Publica employees through transition and manage service changes effectively;
· Focus on the planning for the ‘New Publica’ and co-creating a new operating model in partnership with the Shareholder Councils;
· Working with the Shareholder Council’s to enable a smooth transition of services back under Council control.
The Chief Executive and the Interim Programme Director answered questions from Members and the following points were to be noted:
· The future of Publica was an appropriate question and updates and further questions would be answered to that as and when. It was believed that staff would find it was reassuring that it was business as usual.
· There were priorities with the plan and those priorities would not be delayed.
· Comments would be fed back to Officers that this document was not a business plan due to the lack of financial figures and it was a reassurance document but not a business plan.
RESOLVED that the Committee AGREED:
1. To Note the One-Year Publica Business Plan.