Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director – Transformational Governance

Purpose of report

To give an update on the Overview and Scrutiny work programme for 2017-2018

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended to:

1.1         To review the draft work programme (Appendix 1).

1.2         To determine a timetable for the Mobile Phone Signal Survey

1.3         To identify any items from the Executive Work Programme to form part of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee Work Programme for 2017/18

1.4         To identify any other possible future topics for scrutiny and consider whether these topics should have scoping documents produced, based on the considerations of risk and what value scrutiny can add through considering the issue.

The Committee considered the draft work programme.

With regards to the Mobile Phone Signal review, it was agreed that the survey should be sent to parish councils, with a request for it to be further distributed amongst residents. It would be sent in January for a period of 6 weeks, with completion being encouraged via Survey Monkey in the first instance.

Resolved

(1)       That the work programme be noted

(2)       That the Mobile Phone Survey Signal be distributed to parish councils in January 2018, for a 6 week completion period