Issue - meetings

That the Forward Work Programme be approved subject to the amendments suggested. 

The Environment and Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Facilitator introduced a report to enable the Committee to consider the Forward Work Programme of the committee.

She explained that the budget meeting scheduled for 16 December 2013 would not now take place as it had been agreed that workshops would be held in December to look at the budget and that formal Overview & Scrutiny meetings to consider the budget would be held in January 2014.  The meeting scheduled for 16 December 2013 to consider Broadband and North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Partnership would be held at the rise of the budget workshop.  The meeting on 22 January 2014 would consider reports on Town Centres & High Streets, a review of the Council’s Waste Policy and North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project.  The Facilitator also detailed the items for consideration at the 26 February 2014 meeting. 

Councillor Peter Curtis raised concern that the performance reports had not been considered in depth at this meeting and suggested that special meetings be held for performance issues to prevent consideration of a large number of items on agendas such as for this meeting.  He felt that Members had missed out on receiving verbal updates that were provided by officers when introducing the performance reports for their service areas.  The Chairman explained that the performance reports had not been available to submit to a previous meeting but that he would try to ensure that future agendas were not too long.  He agreed that special meetings could be held when there were several items to submit to a particular committee meeting. 

The Director of Environment said that the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project Joint Committee was due to meet on 16 January 2014 instead of in December 2013 as had been originally agreed and therefore it would not be possible to submit a report for a meaningful discussion to the meeting on 22 January 2014.  He advised that he would discuss with the Chairman and Environment and Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Facilitator as to whether to delay the report to the 26 February 2013 meeting or to request that a special meeting be held to consider the item. 

RESOLVED:

That the Forward Work Programme be approved subject to the amendments suggested.