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Constitution Working Group Recommendations

 

 

Meeting: 03/12/2025 - Council (Item 60)

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Purpose

To consider the recommendations made by the Constitution Working Group on 19 November

 

Recommendations

That Council resolves to:

1.            Agree the amendment (shown in Annex A) to Part 3C of the Constitution Audit and Governance terms of reference following a recommendation from the Council’s external auditor that the Council clarifies, within its Constitution, the responsibility for the assessment of the Council's Capital, Investment and Treasury Management Strategies as part of the annual budget setting process.

2.            Agree to remove Rule 5 of the Council Procedure Rules “Special meetings” as well as any other reference to special meetings.

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Minutes:

The purpose of the report was to consider the recommendations made by the Constitution Working Group (CWG) on 19 November 2025. Councillor Alaric Smith introduced the report and proposed the recommendations. Councillor Smith explained that the CWG had put forward two recommendations, which were to amend Part 3C of the Constitution (Terms of Reference for the Audit and Governance Committee) and to remove “special meetings” from Rule 5 of the Council procedure rules (Part 5A).

 

Members discussed the report and raised a point of clarity on which section of the terms of reference would be amended as there was a typographical error within the annex. It was explained that this would be corrected.

 

The proposals were seconded by Andy Graham, put to the vote and agreed by Council

 

Resolved: That Council

1.             Agreed the amendment (shown in Annex A, as amended) to Part 3C of the Constitution Audit and Governance terms of reference following a recommendation from the Council’s external auditor that the Council clarifies, within its Constitution, the responsibility for the assessment of the Council's Capital, Investment and Treasury Management Strategies as part of the annual budget setting process.

2.             Agreed to remove Rule 5 of the Council Procedure Rules “Special meetings” as well as any other reference to special meetings.

 

 

Voting record – 39 for, 0 against, 1 abstentions

 

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