Compass Point Business Services was set up by East Lindsey and South Holland District Councils, and as the bigger shareholder, ELDC has saved £1.4m from the deal.
The council has needed to make savings of £5.7m in the past two financial years, with a further saving of at least £1.6m needed in 2013/14.
Portfolio holder for corporate services, Councillor Victoria Ayling, said: “As a council we need to continue making considerable savings through new and innovative ways of working so we can protect services to local people and provide good value for money to the taxpayers of our area.
“Compass Point Business Services has done what it set out to do – deliver a £1.4m saving, which will increase by a further five per cent year on year. This is good news. We need to build on this success going forwards.”
Press and public were excluded from discussions about CPBS at the April full council meeting on the advice of deputy chief executive Stuart Davy due to “commercial confidentiality”.
The move has angered members of the Labour group who feel East Lindsey council-tax payers have been denied the chance to hear debate about the company.
Labour leader, Councillor Tony Howard, said: “Once again a certain amount of confidential information was included and that is sufficient to make the debate private but it is not sufficient to answer many of our questions.”
Fellow Labour councillor Phil Sturman said: “We try to hold the executive to account on how they spend the public’s money but debating in private prevents the public from seeing that many of our questions remain unanswered – it’s very frustrating and not really democratic.”
Compass Point Business Services provides five services on behalf of both councils – HR, finance, customer services, IT and revenues and benefits.
During the full council meeting, it was revealed the average salary at East Lindsey District Council is £20,669, according to its annual pay policy statement.
Under the Localism Act, which encourages open and transparent local government, all authorities are now obliged to make public what they pay their staff. The statement was approved, without comment, at Wednesday’s full meeting of the council.
At the authority’s Manby headquarters, the top earner is the chief executive, Nigel Howells, who receives £122,242 plus the value (£5,112) of a leased car.
The lowest pay at the authority is £12,145 per annum which compares with a national minimum wage of £11,729 per annum.
Other top earners include Stuart Davy (deputy chief executive) £83, 989; Alison Penn (assistant chief executive) £68,765; Semantha Neal (business manager, health & arts) £62,556 and Roy Ormsby (business manager, street scene) £58,491.
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Quelle/Source: This is Lincolnshire, 20.04.2012
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