Issue - meetings

To approve and adopt written Member Roles.

(Report attached)

RECOMMENDED that

the draft Member Roles, attached at Appendix 1 of the report, be adopted.

(Officers were requested to amend the Members’ Roles, detailed in Appendix 1 to the report, as suggested.)

Members were asked to consider the adoption of written Member Roles.

Officers reported that the written Member Roles identified various positions on the Council ranging from the core role of all Councillors to the role of the Leader of the Council.  Each role included a description of the key duties of that role together with suggested skills and knowledge which were likely to enable Members to fulfil the role.

It was noted that the aim of the written Member Roles was to describe the potential range of activities which Member might find they were asked to undertake rather than prescribing what they must do.  The skills and knowledge identified within the written Member Roles would be used to form the basis of the Member Development Programme.

Officers were requested to amend the Members’ Roles, detailed in Appendix 1 to the report, as suggested.

RECOMMENDED that

the draft Member Roles, attached at Appendix 1 of the report, be adopted.