Issue - meetings

The changes to the Constitution approved by Annual Council relating to Executive Functions, including the revised Scheme of Delegation and revised list of Proper Officer Functions, be approved.

The Head of Legal and Democratic Services submitted a report seeking approval for the establishment of sub-committees and panels. 

Councillor L Haysey moved, and Councillor D Andrews seconded, a motion that the recommendations as detailed in the report submitted be approved.  After being put to the meeting, and a vote taken, the motion was declared CARRIED.

The joint meeting approved the recommendations as now detailed.

RESOLVED – that (A) the following Sub-Committees and Panels be appointed, with the number of voting Members stated:

(B)       seats on Sub-Committees and Panels, where relevant, be allocated to the sole political group on the Council;

(C)       as a consequence of the decisions at (A) - (B) above, the membership of Sub-Committees and Panels be as set out in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ of the report submitted, with, where appropriate, Members being appointed in accordance with the wishes of the political group to whom the seats on these bodies have been allocated;

(D)      the Head of Legal and Democratic Services be authorised to make changes in the standing membership of sub-committees and panels in (A) above,  in accordance with the wishes of the political group to whom seats on these bodies have been allocated; and

(E)       the changes to the Constitution agreed by Annual Council which relate to Executive Functions including the revised Scheme of Delegation and revised list of Proper Officer Functions, be approved by the Executive.