Issue - meetings

Review of Internal Member Fora

Meeting: 19/02/2013 - Flintshire County Council (Item 129)

129 Review of Internal Member Fora PDF 32 KB

Additional documents:

Appendix 1 - List of Member Fora, item 129 PDF 35 KB

Decision:

(a) That the Planning Delegations Body be discontinued;

(b) That Planning and Development Control Committee papers be made available to Members a week in advance of committee meetings;

(c) That the Teachers Consultative Committee and Flintshire County Council Teachers’ Consultative Committee be combined to cover all education staff not just teachers;

(d) That the County Council recommend to Cabinet that the ICT Panel be reconstituted;

(e) That the County Council recommend to Cabinet that the Waste Strategy Review Board and the Procurement Board be discontinued; and

(f) That the County Council recommend to Cabinet that the following fora continued:-

The Joint Consultative Committee
The School Performance Monitoring Group
The Member/Officer Tenant Working
The Voluntary Sector Grants Panel
The Inclusion Service Steering Group
The Welsh in Education Strategic Forum
The Foster Care Panel
The Children’s Forum
The Adoption Panel
The Health & Safety Board

Minutes:

The Democracy and Governance Manager presented the recommendations from the Constitution Committee as part of the ongoing review of internal Member fora.

At the Annual Council meeting on the 15 May, 2012 the Council agreed to the recommendation that a review of internal Member fora be undertaken by the Head of Legal and Democratic Services in consultation with Group Leaders and reports submitted to the Constitution Committee and Council. The report detailed Member fora considered by Group Leaders on the 29 January, 2013 and Constitution Committee on the 30 January, 2013.

Councillor J.B. Attridge proposed that the County Council support the recommendations as outlined within the report. This proposal was seconded by Councillor R.J.T. Guest.

Councillor N. Phillips thanked the Democracy and Governance Manager for the report and commented on the proposal for the ICT Panel to be reconstituted. He raised his concern that few Members had attended previous meetings of the Panel and urged Members to attend future meetings.

Councillor P.G. Heesom asked that the Cabinet Member for Environment consider and bring forward methods to enable the Council to have greater control on major planning applications. Councillor Attridge, Cabinet Member for Environment said that this matter could be considered by the Planning Strategy Group.

RESOLVED: