Issue - meetings

Report Of Corporate Director – Commercial Development, Assets And Investment & Monitoring Officer

Purpose of report

This report invites Council to agree a set of ‘areas for further consideration’ in the Council’s Constitution as part of a focused Constitution Review.

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee:

1.1      to consider and endorse, as areas for further consideration, the suggestions outlined in paragraph 3.

1.2      to agree the establishment of a politically balanced, informal cross-party working group to review the proposed changes on the basis outlined in paragraph 3.7.

Resolved

(1)           That, having given due consideration, the areas for further consideration as set out in the Annex to the Minutes (as set out in the Minute Book) be endorsed.

(2)           That the establishment of politically balanced, informal cross-party working group to review the proposed changes on the basis outlined in the Annex to the Minutes (as set out in the Minute Book) be agreed.

The Corporate Director – Commercial Development, Assets And Investment & Monitoring Officer submitted a report for Council to agree a set of ‘areas for further consideration’ in the Council’s Constitution as part of a focused Constitution Review.

Councillor Copeland proposed an amendment to the proposed composition of the Working Group. The amendment was erroneously ruled out of order and therefore not considered.

Resolved

(1)           That, having given due consideration, the areas for further consideration as set out in the Annex to the Minutes (as set out in the Minute Book) be endorsed.

(2)           That the establishment of politically balanced, informal cross-party working group to review the proposed changes on the basis outlined in the Annex to the Minutes (as set out in the Minute Book) be agreed.