Issue - meetings

(a)       That the Forward Work Programme, as amended at the meeting, be approved; and

(b)       That the Member Engagement Manager, in consultation with the Chair, Vice-Chair and officers, be authorised to vary the work programme between meetings. 

The Member Engagement Manager introduced the report to consider the Forward Work Programme for the Committee. 

            He explained that the Police & Crime Commissioner had been due to attend this meeting to discuss the Crime & Policing Plan for 2016/17 but this would now be considered at the December 2015 meeting.  The Member Engagement Manager provided details of the items scheduled for the meetings in November and December 2015.  He explained that provisional budget consultation meetings were scheduled in the diary for 11^th to 18^th December 2015 and 15^th to 29^th January 2016 but it had not yet been determined which date would be allocated to which Overview & Scrutiny Committee. 

            In response to a question from Councillor Ian Smith about whether meetings of the Committee could be held in the afternoons rather than the morning, the Member Engagement Manager indicated that the diary had been submitted to the Annual meeting of the Council in May, where it had been agreed.  Any requests to hold the meetings in the afternoon would need to be submitted in advance of the next Annual meeting in May 2016 to allow consideration to be given to the request. 

            RESOLVED:

(a)       That the Forward Work Programme, as amended at the meeting, be approved; and

(b)       That the Member Engagement Manager, in consultation with the Chair, Vice-Chair and officers, be authorised to vary the work programme between meetings.