Decision Maker: Managing Director
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The appointment of a temporary employee w.ef 2
March 2016 to carry out a review of Electoral Services within BDC
and NEDDC.
The temporary contracts is for approx 20-25 days over a 15 month
period at a daily rate of £577 per day. It is anticipated
that the maximum cost will be one of £15,000 split equally
between the two Councils.
The cost will be met from the Transformation Reserve at BDC and
from Invest to Save Reserve at NEDDC.
The Local Government Boundary Commission for
England has advised that it intends to carry out a full review of
the electoral arrangements in Bolsover and NE Derbyshire.
Both elections teams have elections in May and an EU Referendum on
23 June, as well as County Council and possible combined Authority
Mayoral elections in 2017, together with the usual IER annual
canvas arrangements.
Whilst a lot of the research will be gathered in-house, the
Councils do not have sufficient in-house capacity to pull together
the relevant submissions and draw together a substantiated case to
put forward to the leaders.
The person engaged is a former Association of Electoral
Administrators consultant who has expert knowledge and has managed
a number of local authority electoral reviews.
The option to carry out the submission work in
house was rejected due to capacity issues and the need to have the
submission completed in full by September 2016.
There is no requirement to appoint someone on a permanent basis and
therefore a short-term employment contract seemed a viable
alternative.
Advertising a temporary position was not appropriate given the
timescales involved, the temporary nature of the project, the
limited cost and the specialist nature of the work.
Publication date: 03/02/2023
Date of decision: 22/02/2016
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