Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Services)

A number of legislative changes around health and council tax support requiring the Council to amend its constitution in anticipation of the new requirements coming into effect from 1 April 2013. These are connected to

·         The establishment of a Health and Wellbeing Board

·         The transfer of Public Health functions to local authorities

·         The new Council Tax Discount and Support Scheme

At the last Council Meeting on 20 December 2012, the proposed changes to the Council Meeting Procedure Rules and the Access to Information Rules (the later in response to new Executive Regulations) were deferred for further consideration by the Constitution Working Party.

The attached report details the further minor amendments to the Council Meeting Procedure Rules and Access to Information Procedure Rules, proposed by the Constitution Working Party at its meeting on 23 January 2013, and the Working Party’s recommendations in respect of the health and council tax support. Individual reports detailing the proposed changes required for each of these themes are also attached.

The Executive Meeting is invited to recommend that the Council Meeting adopt the changes to the Constitution detailed in the reports.

Officer contact: Craig Ainsworth, 0161 474 3204, craig.ainsworth@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Services) submitted reports (copies of which had been circulated)  inviting the Executive Meeting to consider proposed changes to the Council Meeting Procedure Rules, which had been deferred from the last Council Meeting to allow for further consideration of the proposals by the Constitution Working Party. As a result a number of amendments to the initial proposals had been recommended.

The Corporate, Resource Management & Governance Scrutiny Committee had also considered the proposals and their comments had been circulated to members of the Executive for information.

RESOLVED – That Council Meeting be recommended to adopt the proposed changes to the Constitution in relation to the Council Meeting Procedure Rules as detailed in the report and as previously circulated, and that in accordance with Council Meeting Procedure Rule 24.2 the changes stand adjourned until the next ordinary Council Meeting on 25 April 2013.