Following Integra's management board annual general meeting last week, the county council has confirmed its intentions to stay on within the partnership, despite last year's criticisms of a “lack of shared vision” for the future
” It is business as usual for the project now. “
– Steve Read, Project Integra
A committee has been set up within Project Integra to look into some of the points raised by Hampshire county council's inquiry.
Councillor Tim Knight, environment portfolio holder for Hampshire county council, said: “Following last week's meeting of the Project Integra Management Board, the issues identified by the Scrutiny Inquiry have been acknowledged by the Board and Hampshire county council believes there is a commitment to address them.”
Hampshire was granted a measure of additional power, with the county council granted a standing deputy chair role. When a county council representative is not chair of the Integra board, it will be granted the vice chair role automatically.
Executive
Steve Read, Integra's executive officer, said: “It is business as usual for the project now. At the meeting last week the draft joint municipal waste management strategy was approved as was this year's business plan.
“The Hampshire report was also agreed and a small sub-committee has been set up to discuss the matters raised by the council. The committee will come back on April 6 with the results of their investigation.”
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Mr Read added that the Integra Project would want to pay attention to what has come out of the report and respond to it over the next few months. The partnership is aiming to bring in increased flexibility for sub-groups to be formed to drive specific issues within selected member councils rather than the whole group.
Project Integra was formed in 1994, and has been considered a benchmark for partnership working between county and district organisations. The Project has seen an entire network of recycling and waste management facilities erected in Hampshire.
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