Approved minutes Resource Committee meeting 041024

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Resource Com­mit­tee Meet­ing Minutes

Held online

04 Octo­ber 2024 at 10.00am

Present Rus­sell Jones (Chair) Sandy Brem­ner Dr Han­nah Grist Derek Ross Michael Williamson

In Attend­ance Grant Moir, Chief Exec­ut­ive Officer Dav­id Camer­on, Deputy Chief Exec­ut­ive Officer and Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices Kate Christie, Head of Organ­isa­tion­al Devel­op­ment Louise Allen, Head of Fin­ance and Cor­por­ate Oper­a­tions Kar­en John­stone, Clerk to the Board

Apo­lo­gies Jack­ie Brier­ton Lauren McCal­lum (Deputy Chair)

Minutes from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing for approval

1. The minutes from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing on the 09 August were approved with no amendments.

Mat­ters arising not covered from pre­vi­ous meeting

1. There were no mat­ters arising.

Actions from pre­vi­ous meet­ings | 17 May 2024 | | | —- | —- | | Paper 2 | | | i. The com­mit­tee would like updates about the Peat­land res­tor­a­tion grants and more inform­a­tion of the dif­fer­ent types of res­tor­a­tion under­taken. | Com­plete­dUp­date will be giv­en to Per­form­ance Committee |

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Paper 5
i. Board mem­bers would like to see Eólas to read through the policies avail­able or have a hand­book avail­able for Board Mem­bers to read.	Com­pleted
ACTION	Status
09 August 2024
Paper 1
i. Update com­mit­tee on 25⁄26 and 26⁄27 budget when an update from Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment becomes available.	In hand,will go to board in December
Paper 3
ii. Men­tion­ing the board mem­bers in the paper to make It clear these val­ues and prin­ciples refer to both staff and board mem­bers. Cir­cu­late with board mem­ber once finalised.	Com­pleted
iii. Add the word ​“actions” to the last para­graph our next phase of work through our organ­isa­tion­al devel­op­ment and people strategy will be to seek appro­pri­ate ways to devel­op the cul­ture through appro­pri­ate beha­viours, policies and actions.	Com­pleted
Paper 4
iv. Bring back more Inform­a­tion to the com­mit­tee on the lone work­ing and acci­dent and Incid­ent pro­ced­ure once all staff mem­bers are trained in the new system.	In hand

Declar­a­tions of interest

1. There were no declar­a­tions of interest made.

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²⁰²⁴⁄₂₅ Budget Mon­it­or­ing (Paper 1)

1. Louise Allen presen­ted the paper which sets out an over­view of the Park Authority’s budget man­age­ment pos­i­tion at the end of August — month 5 of the ²⁰²⁴⁄₂₅ fin­an­cial year.

2. The Resources Com­mit­tee dis­cussed the paper and made the fol­low­ing com­ments: a) A board mem­ber raised a con­cern regard­ing the next fin­an­cial year if Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment (SG) were to cut fund­ing again. Head of Fin­ance and Cor­por­ate Oper­a­tions explained that the team are cur­rently work­ing on pro­jec­tions and fore­casts for the upcom­ing budget. Chief Exec­ut­ive Officer (CEO) high­lighted that this fin­an­cial year has seen dif­fer­ent deploy­ment of fin­ances, such as the Cli­mate Adapt­a­tion Fund, which could be revis­ited in event of sig­ni­fic­ant reduc­tions in fin­an­cial alloc­a­tions from gov­ern­ment to the Park Author­ity. It was noted that more inform­a­tion will be avail­able fol­low­ing the SG budget announce­ments on 04 Decem­ber 2024. b) Deputy CEO and Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices noted that the cur­rent fin­an­cial pos­i­tion is one of the strongest we have been in, even with the loss of the Nature Res­tor­a­tion Fund­ing (NRF) of £300,000. This fin­an­cial year, the Park Author­ity have been spread­ing their cost more through­out the year, and the under­spend of Peat­land has been reduced from £700,000 to £200,000 with more con­tracts and grant applic­a­tions com­ing in. There­fore, very pos­it­ive sig­nals are shown in budget man­age­ment, even in the con­text of man­aging a sig­ni­fic­ant increase in total turnover. c) Sandy Brem­ner, Con­vener of the Park Author­ity Board com­men­ted he had met with the Cab­in­et Sec­ret­ary, Mhairi Gougeon, this week and in robust terms, expressed deep con­cerns at the loss of NRF, and not­ing the import­ance of Peat­land and Nature Res­tor­a­tion. d) A board mem­ber asked for cla­ri­fic­a­tion on grant-in-aid. Head of Fin­ance and Cor­por­ate Oper­a­tions explained that this was the Park Authority’s fund­ing from SG and what the budget is built around.

3. The Resources Com­mit­tee noted the paper.

4. Action point arising: None.

AOCB

1. None.

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Date of next meeting

1. The pub­lic meet­ing ended at 10.14am.

2. The next meet­ing will take place on 24 Janu­ary 2025.

Motion for con­fid­en­tial ses­sion to pro­tect con­fid­en­ti­al­ity of staff pay and con­di­tions pro­pos­als pri­or to form­al nego­ti­ations was made and agreed by members.

Resources Com­mit­tee action points: | ACTION | Status | | —- | —- | | Action points arising from pre­vi­ous meet­ings | | | 09 August 2024 | | | Paper 1i. Update com­mit­tee on ²⁵⁄₂₆ and ²⁶⁄₂₇ budget when an update from Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment becomes avail­able. | In hand,will go to board in Decem­ber | | Paper 4ii. Bring back more Inform­a­tion to the com­mit­tee on the lone work­ing and acci­dent and Incid­ent pro­ced­ure once all staff mem­bers are trained in the new sys­tem. | In hand |