5 CONSTITUTION OF THE NORTH WALES CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEE PDF 498 KB
Report to
be presented by Iwan G.D. Evans, Monitoring Officer Cyngor Gwynedd.
Additional documents:
Decision:
1. To adopt the following to
be included in the Constitution:
·
Code of Conduct for Members and Co-opted
Members
·
Standards Sub-committee Terms of Reference
·
Finance, Contracts and Legal Matters
·
Contracts Procedural Rules
2.
To delegate the power to the Monitoring
Officer to make editorial changes to the Standing Orders for their publication.
Minutes:
The report was submitted by the Monitoring Officer.
DECISION
1. To adopt the following to be included in the
Constitution:
·
Code of Conduct for Members and Co-opted
Members
·
Standards Sub-committee Terms of Reference
·
Contract Regulations and Legal Matters
·
Contracts Procedural Rules
2. To delegate the power
to the Monitoring Officer to make editorial changes to the Standing Orders for
their publication.
DISCUSSION
The report was submitted confirming the need to
publish the constitution in order to conform with the
Corporate Joint Committees (General) (Wales) Regulations 2022 and the Local
Government Act 2000. It was noted that
all the documentation was needed to ensure a foundation for propriety
processes.
Four elements of the constitution were looked at in
detail, which were:
Code of Conduct for Members and Co-opted Members
The Statutory Code of Conduct was presented without
any amendments. It was confirmed that it would be possible to amend this code
in the future by establishing and holding a Standards Committee for the
Corporate Joint Committee.
Standards Sub-committee Terms of Reference
It was noted that it would be sensible for the
membership of the Corporate Joint Committee’s Standards Sub-committee to be
elected from the members that were currently on local authority standard
committees for the North Wales region and Eryri
National Park. It was explained that this would lighten the training workload.
It was suggested that the Standards Committee would include 7 members - one from
Eryri National Park and others from every local
authority that was a part of the Joint Committee.
Contract Regulations and Legal Matters
It was explained that these regulations would confirm
how contracts would be signed and who would have the rights to do so.
Contracts Procedural Rules
It was suggested to adopt Cyngor Gwynedd's framework
for now and it would be possible to adapt the rules to be more specific to the
Corporate Joint Committee in the future.