Agenda item

The Monitoring Officer to submit a report to enable the Committee to consider items relating to the Council’s Constitution for onward referral to the Council for adoption and incorporation into the Council’s Constitution.

The Monitoring Officer

(a)       submitted a report (copies of which had previously been circulated to Members) to enable the Committee to consider items relating to the Council’s Constitution for onward referral to the Council for adoption and incorporation into the Council’s Constitution;

(b)       advised that the recommendation at 2.3 concerning new Officer delegation was not approved at the Community and Social Affairs Community meeting on 13 September 2017 and as such, would not to be considered at this meeting;

(c)        gave a brief overview of the report, highlighting

•      that following the recent Senior Management Restructure, there had been changes to job titles and roles, as detailed in Appendix A of the report.  He advised that Parts 3 and 4 of the Constitution were attached at Appendices A1 and A2.  These sections had been more significantly affected by the changes

•      the recommendation from the Rural, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee, held on 7 June 2017.

Members commented that it was not possible to conduct ‘searches’ of the PDF version of the Constitution document and agreed that a Word version would be very useful for this purpose (even more useful that the hard copy currently sent to Members).  The Monitoring Officer confirmed this could be done and suggested that in the meantime, Members could use ibooks to search the document, if they had access to this.  He confirmed that the Word version would be emailed to Members and not made available online.  It was also noted that some Members would like to continue to receive their hard copies, due to poor internet connection in rural areas.

There being no further comments or questions from Members it was

RESOLVED that

(1)       the consequential changes to the Constitution listed at Appendix A of the report, which were as a result of the recent Senior Management Restructure be approved and referred to Full Council for adoption into this Council’s Constitution;

(2)       recommendations from the Rural, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee held on 7 June 2017 be approved and referred to Full Council for adoption into this Council’s Constitution;

(3)       the Monitoring Officer’s delegated authority to make amendments following legislative or other statutory changes and minor procedural and operational changes be noted.  Such changes would be reported to this Committee and subsequently to Full Council, as soon as practicable thereafter.