Issue - meetings

The Chairman submitted a report setting out the Committee’s future work programme for 2012/13, the detail of which had been set out in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ to the report now submitted.

Councillor J Ranger stated that a Task and Finish Group should be set up to conduct a fundamental review of how IT benefited the operations of the Authority and its customers, both internal and external.  He commented that this work should not be undertaken by a Member working party but by a Task and Finish Group.

In response to comments from the Scrutiny Officer regarding budget restraints and the fact that topics had already been identified for Task and Finish Groups, Councillor Ranger stated that each Scrutiny Committee should have at least one Task and Finish Group in a civic year.

Councillor Ranger commented that there was a light list of topics for the July meeting.  He stated that a report relating to the roles of Members in respect of outside bodies could be submitted to that meeting.  This was supported.

Members also agreed that a scoping report would be submitted to the July meeting in respect of a Task and Finish Group relating to a fundamental review of how IT benefited the operations of the Council and its customers, both internal and external.

The Scrutiny Officer advised that reports in the work programme relating to Community and Public Engagement would be refocused as part of the wider Communications Strategy work.  A full report would be submitted to the meeting in March 2013 and an interim report would be submitted to the meeting in October 2012.  This was supported.

The Committee approved the report, as amended.

RESOLVED – that the work programme be approved, as amended.