Issue - items at meetings - Constitutional Matters (P&R)

Report of the Monitoring Officer (copy attached).

2.1             The Monitoring Officer introduced the report and stated that similar reports were being taken to the various committees as there was a need for them to establish an urgency sub-committee.  He noted that the Policy & Resources Committee was also asked to establish the Corporate Parenting Sub-Committee and Personnel Appeals Panel, which was also a sub-committee.  The need for this had arisen because provision did not exist at this point in time within the appropriate legislation for the Council to establish sub-committees of committees.

2.2             RESOLVED:

(1)         That the committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix A to this report, be noted;

(2)         That the establishment of a Corporate Parenting Sub-Committee and a Personnel Appeals Panel with terms of reference and membership as set out in paragraphs 3.9 – 3.10 and Appendix 'B' of this report be approved; and

(3)         That the establishment of an Urgency Sub-Committee consisting of the Chair of the Committee and two other Members (nominated in accordance with the scheme for the allocation of seats for committees), to exercise its powers in relation to matters of urgency, on which it is necessary to make a decision before the next ordinary meeting of the Committee be approved.