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Council meetings programme 2025/26

 

 

Meeting: 29/01/2025 - Council (Item 221)

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Purpose          

To invite Council to set a programme of Council and Committee meetings for the civic year 2025–2026.

 

Recommendations

That Council Resolves to:

1.    Approve the Programme of Meetings for 2025/26, as detailed at Annex A and Annex B;

2.    Delegate authority to the Director of Governance, in consultation with Group Leaders, to make changes to the programme of meetings, in the event that there is any future decision of the Council to change the committee structure, frequencies of committees or sub-committees, or committee remits that impacts the programme of meetings;

3.    Delegate authority to the Head of Democratic and Electoral Services to set meeting dates for committees and sub-committees that meet on an ad-hoc basis (Performance and Appointments Committee, Development Control Committee, Licensing Committee, Licensing Panel, Miscellaneous Licensing Sub-Committee, Standards Sub-Committee), member training, member briefing sessions, and any further working groups established by the Council.

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Minutes:

The purpose of the item was to invite Council to set a programme of Council and Committee meetings for the civic year 2025–2026.

 

Councillor Andy Graham, the Leader of the Council, introduced the item and explained that a delegation was being proposed so that, in consultation with group leaders, the Director of Governance could make minor amendments to the programmein the event that there was a need to do so.

 

Councillor Graham proposed an additional recommendation, which was to move the date of the next meeting of full Council from 26 March 2025 to 19 March 2025, which would avoid the County Council pre-election period.

 

In discussing the item, a member asked whether the delegations in the recommendations allowed any change in the structure of the Overview and Scrutiny function, making reference to the survey on this. The Leader confirmed that the delegations would allow this to happen without further Full Council approval.

 

Councillor Duncan Enright seconded the recommendations and welcome the fact that the schedule avoided the school holidays where possible. The recommendations were put to the vote and agreed by Council.

 

Resolved: that Council

  1. Approve the Programme of Meetings for 2025/26, as detailed at Annex A and Annex B;
  2. Delegate authority to the Director of Governance, in consultation with Group Leaders, to make changes to the programme of meetings, in the event that there is any future decision of the Council to change the committee structure, frequencies of committees or sub-committees, or committee remits that impacts the programme of meetings;
  3. Delegate authority to the Head of Democratic and Electoral Services to set meeting dates for committees and sub-committees that meet on an ad-hoc basis (Performance and Appointments Committee, Development Control Committee, Licensing Committee, Licensing Panel, Miscellaneous Licensing Subcommittee, Standards Sub-Committee), member training, member briefing sessions, and any further working groups established by the Council.
  4. Change the date of the Full Council meeting scheduled for 26 March 2025 to 19 March 2025.

 

Voting record For – 43, Against 0, Abstentions 0, Did not vote 2 

 

 

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