Issue - meetings

To consider the Annual Review of the Council’s Constitution and Associated documents.

(Report under separate cover – To Follow)

The Council received the Constitution and associated documents as amended to take account of changes made during the preceding year.

A proposal to increase the size of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee by one member, thereby providing Groups other than the Leading Group with a majority on the Committee, was agreed, there being no dissenting voices at this course of action which was not in accordance with rules on the political proportionality of Committees.

RESOLVED that

1)         the Council’s current Constitution and associated documents (Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, Scheme of Delegation to Officers, Scheme of Members’ Allowances, Codes and Protocols etc.) as now issued be endorsed; and

2)         the Overview and Scrutiny Committee be increased in size by one member, this vacancy being offered to the Minority Group.

(This report had been accepted as a matter of Urgent Business – not having met the publication deadline – and was considered at the meeting as such, with the approval of the Chair, in accordance with the Council’s constitutional rules and the powers vested in the Chair by virtue of Section 100 (B) (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972 to agree to matters of urgency being discussed by reason of special circumstances.

In this case the special circumstances were that the information, which was not available at the time of the agenda going to print, was required to be considered at the present meeting in order that Members might approve this key document in a timely manner).