Agenda item

Report from Standards Committee - Constitutional Changes

Minutes:

Cllr Amin, Chair of the Standards Committee, moved that her Committee’s recommendations be agreed.

 

RESOLVED

 

That Full Council:

1)    Note the establishment of a joint sub-committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board with Islington Council and consequently, agree the following amendments to the Constitution:

a)    Part 2, ‘Articles’ at paragraph 4.02 (v) and 10.09 (Appendix 6 of the report);

b)    Part 3, Section B ‘Responsibility for functions: Full Council and Non-Executive Bodies’ at Section 1 paragraph 1(v) and Section 2 paragraph 8.1 (Appendix 1)

2)    Note the removal of the Council and Employees Joint Consultative Committee at Part 3, Section B ‘Responsibility for functions: Full Council and Non-Executive Bodies’ at Section 3 paragraph 1 (Appendix 1); and associated amendment at Part 4, Section B ‘Committee Procedure Rules’ rule 58 (Appendix 7), following the decision of the Staffing and Remuneration Committee to dissolve this sub-committee;

3)    Approve changes to Statutory, Proper and Specified Officer functions within the Officer Scheme of Delegation together with minor amendments, for clarification purposes, as set out at:

a)    Part 3, Section E Officer Scheme of Delegation at Section 3 ‘Delegations to the Chief Executive and Statutory Officers’ (Appendix 2);

b)    Part 3, Section E Officer Scheme of Delegation at Section 4 ‘Proper Officer and Specified Officer Functions’ (Appendix 3);

4)    Approve minor amendments to the Constitution for clarification purposes, as set out at:

a)    Part 2, ‘Articles’ (Appendix 6);

b)    Part 3, Section B ‘Responsibility for functions: Full Council and Non-Executive Bodies’ at Section 1 paragraph 1(g) and Section 3 (Appendix 1);

c)    Part 3, Section D ‘Responsibility for functions: Local Choice Functions’ at point 16 (Appendix 4);

d)    Part 3, New Section DA ‘Responsibility for functions: Joint Committees and arrangements’, to record such arrangements entered into by the Council where these joint committees carry out functions on behalf of the authority (Appendix 5);

e)    Part 4, Section B ‘Committee Procedure Rules’ (Appendix 7)

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