Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the attached report and recommendations from Governance & Audit & Standards Committee held on 20 September.

Purpose.

For the committee to consider the request from Councillor Bosher (points 1- 4 below), to review the Council's Call-in rules and process and decide what it consequently supports to go forward to Full Council:

1)    A suitable time limit for Scrutiny Management Panel to consider the call in

2)    The subject decision of the Cabinet/Portfolio Holder be not implemented until the call in has been properly considered

3)    The call in can be a lengthy process and perhaps should be the subject of a special meeting and not included on the agenda of a scheduled meeting.

4)    If the call in is successful, and the subject report is referred back to the Portfolio holder or Cabinet for reconsideration, the original unaltered report should not be the subject for reconsideration.

RECOMMENDED that having regard to the contents of this report that:

The committee notes the current call in rules/process, and

1.  Consider whether its wishes to recommend to Full Council any suggested changes as detailed in paragraph 4 below.

2.  Further to 2.2 above, should the Committee support the changes as presented, the associated draft constitutional revisions are incorporated as track changes to section 15 - Call-In,  (attached  as Appendix  A ) as part of any recommendation to Full Council.