Issue - meetings

Further to minute 56 (Assembly held on 28.2.2018), the Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance & Core Services presented an update report on the Council’s governance arrangements and proposed revisions to the Council Constitution to reflect the new arrangements and other aspects that had been progressed since the last Assembly meeting.

Specifically, the update report referred to the following proposed revisions to the Constitution:

-   The roles and responsibilities of Be First and other Council owned entities, as well as the internal governance arrangements relating to the Shareholder Panel and the Investment Panel;

-   The re-establishment of a separate Health Scrutiny Committee; and

-   Public participation arrangements in Council meetings.

The Assembly resolved to:

(i)  Note the amendments to relevant chapters of the Constitution as detailed in Appendices A1 to A7 to the report, which implement the decisions of the Cabinet in respect of the establishment of Be First and other Council-owned entities, as well as the internal governance arrangements relating to the Shareholder Panel, the Investment Panel and the delegations to officers;

(ii)  Agree to re-establish a separate Health Scrutiny Committee for the 2018/19 municipal year and to approve the Committee’s Articles, as set out in Appendix B3 to the report;

(iii)  Note the consequential amendments to the articles relating to the Health and Wellbeing Board and the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, as shown in Appendices B1 and B2 respectively;

(iv)  Adopt the new public participation arrangements for Council meetings, as set out in Appendix C to the report; and

(v)  Note that the new Council Constitution shall be published on the Council’s website once all the agreed changes have been made.