Leadership Board

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Board Members
Cllr Mark Macmillan (convener)	Cllr Mike Holmes (depute convener)	Cllr Brian Lawson
Cllr Terry Kelly	Cllr Kenny MacLaren	Cllr Tommy Williams
Cllr Roy Glen	Cllr Marie McGurk	Cllr Lorraine Cameron
Cllr Jacqueline Henry	Cllr Iain McMillan	Cllr Allan Noon
Cllr Jim Harte

Agendas and minutes of the meetings of the Leadership Board.

The following shall comprise the areas of responsibility of the Leadership Board:

1. To provide strategic leadership for the council and ensure consistency across the council's policy objectives.

2. To direct and oversee community planning and policy development of the following overarching themes within the council, and to liaise with partner organisations in relation to issues within these overarching themes:

• general management
• social inclusion and equalities
• sustainable development
• modernising government

3. To approve and oversee the council's corporate plan.

4. To call in decisions by the other boards in circumstances where the Leadership Board considers that a matter requires to be reconsidered either in terms of the correctness of the decision in relation to the specific theme(s) concerned, or because of the importance or impact of the decision on the council. (The Leadership Board will however have no power to call in decisions made by boards in the exercise of a judicial, quasi-judicial or similar function, which includes the determination of licensing and planning applications and disciplinary and grievance appeals).

5. To direct and oversee the council’s development of partnership working.

6. To direct and oversee the development of the council’s decentralisation strategy.

7. To approve the council’s response to consultation papers except where these fall within the responsibility of a Policy Board.

8. To determine matters concerned with the structure and organisation of local government generally, including arrangements concerning relations with COSLA, except where these fall within the responsibility of a Policy Board.

9. To grant authority to members to attend seminars, conferences and other visits.

10. To oversee the community regeneration fund strategy, and to develop new policies and initiatives within the framework of the strategy.

11. To refer issues relative to the operation of this Board to one or more of the Local Area Committees for their consideration/and or comment.

12. To consider issues referred to this Board by one or more of the Local Area Committees.