190614CNPABdPaper4AAStandingOrders

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Form­al Board Paper 4 14^th June 2019

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR DECISION

Title: STAND­ING ORDERS

Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CAMER­ON, DIR­ECT­OR OF COR­POR­ATE SERVICES

Pur­pose

This paper presents fur­ther revi­sions to the Authority’s Stand­ing Orders fol­low­ing the Board’s con­sid­er­a­tion of a revised draft at its meet­ing in March 2019.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Board is reques­ted to:

i. Review the draft revised Stand­ing Orders set out at Annex I to this paper; and ii. Sub­ject to any agreed amend­ments to the drafts, agree that the revised and final­ised doc­u­ments should be approved by the Con­ven­or, Deputy Con­ven­or and Chief Exec­ut­ive for endorse­ment and pub­lic­a­tion, to be effect­ive from that pub­lic­a­tion date.

Stra­tegic Context

1. The Stand­ing Orders rep­res­ent a key gov­ernance doc­u­ment, sup­port­ing, com­ple­ment­ing and inter­act­ing with: a) The Nation­al Parks (Scot­land) Act 2000 and asso­ci­ated des­ig­na­tion orders; b) The Man­age­ment State­ment and Fin­an­cial Memor­andum agreed by Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment to estab­lish the over­arch­ing oper­a­tions of the Author­ity; c) The Authority’s Code of Con­duct; and d) Vari­ous com­ple­ment­ary statues and reg­u­la­tions, such as the Free­dom of Inform­a­tion (Scot­land) Act 2002.

2. The Stand­ing Orders seek to ensure that the oper­a­tions of the Author­ity are based on the highest stand­ards of gov­ernance, sup­port the Code of Con­duct, in par­tic­u­lar in terms of integ­rity and lead­er­ship, and deliv­er on the organisation’s val­ues as an

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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Form­al Board Paper 4 14^th June 2019 open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive and pro­fes­sion­al organ­isa­tion that behaves with integ­rity. The work on gov­ernance also sup­ports our cul­tur­al aspir­a­tion to be the best small pub­lic body in Scotland.

1. Changes made to the draft Stand­ing Orders con­sidered by the Board at its meet­ing in March 2019 are shown in tracked changes in Annex I to this paper.

Stra­tegic Policy Considerations

1. The Stra­tegic con­sid­er­a­tions around policy, risk man­age­ment, organ­isa­tion­al implic­a­tions and suc­cess meas­ures, togeth­er with wider back­ground inform­a­tion, remain as stated in the paper to the Board in March 2019: https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​r​e​s​o​u​r​c​e​/​d​o​c​s​/​b​o​a​r​d​p​a​p​e​r​s​/​2​9​0​3​2​0​1​9​/​1​9​0​3​2​9​C​N​P​A​B​dPape r3AABoardStandingOrdersCover.pdf

2. These con­sid­er­a­tions can be accessed at the above link and are not repeated here to keep this paper as con­cise as possible.

Dav­id Camer­on 28 May 2019 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

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