Agenda item

To receive reports from the following bodies

a)     Cabinet - Report 11 – 2009/10

b)     Constitution Review Working Group – Report 7 – 2009/10

c)      Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Report 1 – 2009/10

Minutes:

The Mayor agreed to admit reports 13b and 13c as urgent business. The meeting of the Constitution Review Working Group and Overview and Scrutiny Committee were held after despatch of the Summons. The reports contained recommendations in relation to Constitutional changes and terms of reference for the joint health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which needed to be considered by the Council.

 

The Mayor proposed that, due to the hour and in accordance with Council Rules of Procedures, the meeting close and moved that Cabinet Report 11 – 2009/10, Constitution Review Working Group Report 7 – 2009/10 and Overview and Scrutiny Committee Report 1 – 2009/10 be received and all the recommendations therein be agreed. The motion was agreed on a vote 26 for and 26 against, with the Mayor using her casting vote in favour of the motion.

 

RESOLVED:

 

  1. That Cabinet Report 11 – 2009/10 be received and adopted and that the decision to delegated authority to the Leader of the Council, to agree the final refreshed version of the Local Area Agreement for submission to the Government Office for London following approval by Cabinet and including any final revisions required by GOL, be endorsed.

  2. That report 7 of the Constitution Review Working Group 2009/10 be received and that the following recommendations contained within it be agreed:
    1. That the Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2010/11, set out at Appendix 1 to the report, be agreed and adopted as a replacement for Part 6 of the Council’s Constitution.

 

  1. That the Protocol on the Councillor Call for Action procedure be approved as set out in Appendix 2 to the report and that this be excluded from the Council’s Constitution pending a further report.

  2. That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee be delegated power to amend the Councillor Call for Action Protocol during 2010/11 as the Committee may consider desirable in the light of practical experience, subject to reporting such proposed amendments to the Constitution Review Working Group and officers reporting again to full Council at the end of 2010/11 on the operation of the Councillor Call for Action Protocol.

      

d.      That the changes to the terms of reference of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee as set out in Appendix 3 to the report and the changes to the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules as set out in Appendix 4 to the report be approved and that they be adopted as amendments to Part 3, Section C and Part 4, Section G of the Council’s Constitution.

 

  1. That report 1 of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for 2010/11 be received and that the following recommendations be agreed:
    1.  That the terms of reference for the joint health overview and scrutiny committee be approved.

    2. That the making of nominations from this Council to the joint health overview and scrutiny committee be delegated to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

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