Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Chief Executive and Monitoring Officer.

The Deputy Leader of the Council (Governance and Corporate Services) (Councillor Martin Candler) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing a number of proposed changes to the Council’s Constitution.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the amendments to the Constitution as detailed in the appendices to the report subject to those amendments relating to the Council Meeting Procedure Rules standing adjourned until the 25 April 2013 meeting of the Council in accordance with Council Meeting Procedure Rule 24.2.

To consider a report of the Chief Executive and Monitoring Officer.

The Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Services) (Councillor Martin Candler) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out the recommendations of the Constitution Working Party together with the comments of the Corporate, Resource Management and Governance Scrutiny Committee and the Executive in relation to changes required to the Constitution in relation to (a) Review of the pre-election Period; (b) Executive Meetings and Access to Information Regulations 2012; (c) Obstructions Policy for the Highway – Appeals Process; and (d) a number of issues previously identified by the Working Party in relation to the Council Meeting Procedure Rules.

RESOLVED – That consideration of this item be deferred to the next meeting of the Council on 14 February 2013 pending further consultation on the proposed amendments.