Issue - meetings

To approve amendments to the Council’s Constitution in order to:

• establish a Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny, and
• confer on Overview and Scrutiny Panels the power to approve reports and recommendations for submission to the Executive, full Council and other organisations.

The Council considered the Council report regarding proposed amendments to the Council’s Constitution in order to establish a Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny and confer on Overview and Scrutiny Panels the power to approve reports and recommendations for submission to the Executive, full Council and other organisations.

On the proposition of Councillor Ward, Chairman of Governance and Audit Committee, seconded by Councillor McCracken it was

RESOLVED that

i)          the Council’s Constitution be amended to permit a scheme for Public Participation for meetings of the Overview and Scrutiny Commission and Panels and that, subject to the amendment referred to in paragraph 5.1 of the agenda report, the draft scheme shown as Annexe A to the agenda report be approved; and

ii)         the Council’s Constitution be amended to provide that Overview and Scrutiny Panels may adopt reports and make recommendations to the Executive, Council and other organisations.