Issue - meetings

To support the proposed amendments to the Constitution and recommends to the Full Council that they be adopted.

DECISION:

To support the proposed change to the Constitution and recommend to the Full Council that they are adopted.

Submitted – the report of the Monitoring Officer highlighting elements of the Constitution that needed to be updated either in response to the requirements of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021, legal amendments or arrangements that justified an amendment.  It was reported that it had been a period that had seen several changes to the Constitution as the Act had come into force and that further changes were a matter of bringing the house to order.

It was noted that the issues were subject to the Full Council's approval; however, the Committee was asked to consider and support the proposed amendments and recommend to the Full Council that they adopted them.

Gratitude was expressed for the report.

During the ensuing discussion, the following observations were noted:

·         Despite extending the notice period for a question to the Full Council to 3 working days so that officers could respond in more detail to potentially technical issues, this did not meet the time needed to prepare for a supplementary question.

·         Increasing the threshold of placing the Council seal on contracts from £50,000 to £100,000 was a wise move.

RESOLVED To support the proposed change to the Constitution and recommend to the Full Council that they are adopted