Agenda and minutes

Delegated Decisions by Cabinet Member for Safer & Stronger Communities - Monday, 10 December 2012 12.00 pm

Venue: County Hall, New Road, Oxford

Contact: Julie Dean  Tel: (01865) 815322; E-mail:  julie.dean@oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Thames Valley Fire Control Service - Admission of Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire & rescue Authority (BMKFRA) pdf icon PDF 94 KB

Forward Plan Ref: 2012/154

Contact: Nathan Travis, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Tel: (01865) 855206

 

Report by Chief Fire Officer (CMDSSC 4).

 

The purpose of this report is to seek a delegated decisions approval (in line with previous decisions by Cabinet to delegate authority in this matter to the Cabinet lead member) to allow Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire & Rescue Authority (BMKFRA) to join the Thames Valley Fire Control Service (TVFCS).

 

The reason for this move is because of an extraordinary meeting of the Buckingahmshire & Milton Keynes Fire & Rescue Authority (BMKFRA), held on 31 October 2012, voted in favour of withdrawing from their current partnering arrangement with Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Authority and joining the TVFCS (following joint discussions at both Officer and Member Level across the three Thames Valley fire & rescue authorities).

 

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

 

(a)       Agree that Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire & Rescue Authority (BMKFRA) be invited to join the Thames Valley Fire Control Service (TVFCS) as a full partner in steady state in accordance with the principles set out in the report

(b)       Agree that, in the interim, BMKFRA be invited to contribute as a full partner in the work to establish a Joint Committee to manage the TVFCS.

(c)       Agree that BMKFRA be invited to participate in the delivery programme as a non-voting member in accordance with the principles set out in the paper.

(d)       Delegate to the Chief Fire Officer the authority to sign a legally binding partnership agreement between the TVFCS partners and BMKFRA, drafted in accordance with the principles set out in the paper.

Minutes:

(a)               Agreed

(b)               Agreed

(c)               Agreed

(d)               Agreed