Meeting documents

Apologies were recorded.

Those joining the meeting but not in the room were also recorded separately.

Cllr G Fraschini, Cllr M Healey, Cllr N Hewitt-Cooper, Cllr James Hunt, Cllr M Keating, Cllr T Lock, Cllr L Oliver, Cllr J Parham, Cllr L Redman, Cllr D Ruddle, Cllr N Taylor, Cllr G Verdon, Cllr W Wallace and Cllr J Williams

Those joining the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 15.

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County Councillors membership of Town, City, Parish or District Councils and this will be displayed in the meeting room (Where relevant).

The Statutory Register of Member’s Interests can be inspected via request to the Democratic Service Team.

There were no new Declarations.

Members’ written notifications of interests were affixed to the Notice Board at the back of the meeting room.  

(see explanatory notes attached to agenda)

This item includes the presentation of petitions. Details of any public questions / petitions submitted will be included in the Chair’s Schedule which will be made available to the members and to the public at the meeting.

There was one public Question from Mr Nigel Behan  Response was from the Monitoring Officer

Notice was received of one Public Question from Mr Nigel Behan, full details can be found in Appendix A.

To consider a report with recommendations from the Monitoring Officer.

Democratic and decision making arrangements The Council Resolved:

1) Agreed that all council meetings that are not executive in nature should be held virtually as ‘advisory boards’ until the Annual General Meeting in May 2022, with committee members expressing a ‘minded to’ steer in respect of recommendations set out in officer reports.

2) That as a temporary change to the Scheme of Delegation the Chief Executive, relevant Director, Head of Service or Strategic Manager be authorised to exercise delegated powers to make non-executive decisions in the light of ‘minded to’ steers expressed by members in the virtual ‘advisory boards’.

3) Agreed that all non-executive meetings where it is an Administering Authority meet virtually on the same basis as those meetings set out in recommendations 1 and 2, subject to partner authorities agreeing to that approach and delegations to officers being in place.

4) Asked the Leader to confirm his proposed meeting arrangements for the Cabinet.

5) Agreed that all members should be given a dispensation under section 85 of the Local Government Act 1972

6) Authorised the Monitoring Officer to take forward the implementation of the recommendations above and make appropriate temporary changes to the Council’s Constitution and Scheme of Delegation to allow those remote meetings (advisory boards) to function as consultative bodies and delegate decisions that would otherwise been taken by those meetings to relevant officers until the Annual General Meeting in May 2022 where the Council will then review the arrangements.

The Monitoring Officer’s report set out proposals for the Council to consider revising the democratic and decision-making arrangements. The proposals recommend a temporary change by converting all current non-executive committee meetings to advisory boards which would be held virtually and enable members and other stakeholders to participate and give a  ...  view the full minutes text for item 18.