Issue - meetings

To submit the report of the Head of Democracy Services.

To adopt the Committees Calendar for 2024/25.

The Head of Democracy Services submitted the report which asked the Council to adopt the Committees Calendar for 2024/25 as a result of detailed work that had taken place in the background to choose dates and avoid clashes with other meetings.

Members of the Democratic Services Committee were thanked for their comments and

detailed work in discussing the Calendar and an agreement had been reached on

improvements following that discussion. Attention was drawn to an extraordinary

meeting of the Full Council that would be held in September.

Members were given an opportunity to make observations and ask questions. 

A member expressed the desire of the independent group to establish a Shadow Cabinet and asked about how this could be done.  The member elaborated that since the Board had been dissolved, that there was a strong feeling and desire amongst the independent group to establish a Shadow Cabinet to challenge the Cabinet's decisions since no independent group member served on the Cabinet. The member also expressed that many members of the Plaid Cymru group served on the Scrutiny Committees.

The Monitoring Officer confirmed that this matter was not a matter to be discussed by the Full Council today. He suggested that the member should discuss with the Democracy Service as a starting point.

A member took the opportunity to pay tribute to the Chair of the Council, praising the way that he had chaired the meeting today.