Issue - meetings

To consider a report of Cabinet recommending changes to the allocation of responsibility for Executive Functions and as a consequence of those revisions, changes to the responsibility for Select Committee Functions; the Constitution to be amended accordingly.

The Council considered the report of Cabinet, and presented by the Leader.  The report detailed changes to the allocation of the responsibility for Executive Functions and as a consequence of those revisions, changes to the responsibility for Select Committee Functions.  A change of name for the Economy, Transport and Environment Select Committee to Transport and Environment Select Committee was also recommended.

RESOLVED:

That the County Council:

a)        Notes the changes to Executive Functions.

b)        Agrees that the responsibility for scrutiny of Economic Development should fall within the functions of the Policy and Resources Select Committee, and that the Economy, Transport and Environment Select Committee be renamed the Transport and Environment Select Committee.

c)         Delegate authority to the Monitoring Officer to amend the Constitution to give effect to the recommendation at b) of this report.