Issue - meetings

To submit the report of the Monitoring Officer.

The adopt the amendments to the Consultation listed in the report submitted to the Council and the appendices relating to:

(i)            The Functions of the Full Council;

(ii)          Panel Performance Assessment;

(iii)         Timetable for Members' Questions; and

(iv)         Financial threshold for sealing contracts.

Submitted – the report of the Monitoring Officer inviting the Council to adopt a series of changes to the Constitution as listed in the report and its attachments, regarding:-

(i)         The Functions of the Full Council;

(ii)        Panel Performance Assessment;

(iii)      Timetable for Members' Questions; and the

(iv)      Financial threshold for sealing contracts.

Members were given an opportunity to make observations and ask questions. In response to questions from individual members regarding the Independent Panel that would assess the Council's performance, it was noted:-

·         That the guidelines referred to around 4-5 people on the Panel.  It had been given to understand that the Welsh Local Government Association gathered a pool of applicants with relatively substantial local government background (principal officers and members) that the Council would have to appoint a panel from, and the Panel would have and independent chair.

·         The process was not similar in any way to the local development plan process.  The Panel's recommendation would have to be submitted to the Governance and Audit Committee and to the Cabinet also, it seemed.  The Panel would not act as regulators, their roles would be to provide and opinion and present recommendations for the Council to consider and respond to.

RESOLVED to adopt the amendments to the Consultation as listed in the report submitted to the Council and the appendices relating to:

(i)        The Functions of the Full Council;

(ii)       Panel Performance Assessment;

(iii)      Timetable for Members' Questions; and the

(iv)      Financial threshold for sealing contracts.