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Abolition of Democracy Committee

Meeting: 14/03/2018 - Democracy Committee (Item 83)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of Mr Sam Bailey, the Democratic and Administration Services Manager, which outlined proposals for the decommissioning of the Democracy Committee.

 

Mr Bailey advised that this report had been requested by Councillor Harper who considered that agenda items for this Committee had tended to be light and he felt that the functions of the Committee could easily be distributed to other existing Committees of the Council.

 

The Committee made the following observations on the proposal:-

 

·  That there would be a further reduction of the workload of the Committee due to the outside bodies being moved to other Committees as a result of the Outside Bodies Review.

·  That the Democracy and Employment Committees could merge.

·  There should be a wider review carried out which looked at all the Committees, considering their size, responsibilities and whether there should be any reductions in the number of Committees overall.

·  That a scoping report be brought to the next Committee meeting which set out the terms of reference of the review, to include the original principles agreed by the Council when the review of Committees was carried out in 2015.

RESOLVED:

 

1)  That a review be carried out into the functions and terms of reference of all the Committees, excluding the Regulatory Committees.

2)  That a scoping report be brought to the next Committee meeting setting out the terms of reference for the review, including the original principles agreed by the Council.


Voting  For:  8  Against:  0  Abstentions:  1