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Report of Monitoring Officer (copy attached).

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

7.1       The Committee considered a report of the Monitoring Officer which provided information on the Committee’s terms of reference. 

7.2       The Senior Lawyer set out the report and reminded members that at the last meetings of Adult Care & Health Committee and the Joint Commissioning Board it had been agreed to abolish the Joint Commissioning Board as a separate meeting and bring its business into the Adult Care & Health Committee.  The Committee now had a two part agenda, starting with jointly commissioned (Section 75) business when the CCG would meet concurrently with the Council Committee.  The second part of the meeting would be limited to council business.  The Change took effect at full Council on 23 May 2013.

7.3       The Senior Lawyer explained the voting arrangements for the Part A – Jointly Commissioned (Section 75) section of the meeting.  She suggested that if there was no disagreement there would be no need to vote.  However, should a vote be necessary, the Council and CCG each had one block vote.  The CCG members should decide by a majority and the council members would use normal voting rules in reaching their decision on how to use their vote.   If there was no agreement, a decision could not be made.

7.4       Councillor Mears stated that the new arrangements made absolute sense.  Councillor Norman concurred.

7.5       RESOLVED - (1)      That the committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be noted.