Democracy in Crawley

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Agenda item

Minutes of the Cabinet, Overview and Scrutiny Commission and Committees

1)            Toreceive theminutes ofthe meetings ofthe Cabinet,Overviewand Scrutiny Commission and Committees, as listed on page 27, and set out in the appendices to this item.

 

2)            Toadopt any of therecommendationsto Full Council,which have notbeenreservedfor debate and as listed on page 27, and set out in the appendices to this item.

 

Minutes:

1)            Moved by Councillor Portal-Castro (as the Mayor):-

 

 

RESOLVED

 

That the following reportsbe received:

·           Audit Committee – Wednesday 25 July 2018

·           Planning Committee – Monday, 30 July 2018

·           Overview and Scrutiny Commission – Monday 3 September 2018

·           Cabinet – Wednesday 5 September 2018

·           Governance – Tuesday 18 September 2018

·           Planning Committee – Tuesday 25 September 2018

·           Audit Committee – Tuesday 2 October 2018

 

 

2)            Thatthe recommendationscontained inthe reportson thefollowing matters,which had not been reserved for debate, be adopted:-

 

Review of Outside Bodies and Organisations: Scrutiny Panel Final Governance Committee 18 September 2018 (Recommendation 2)

 

The Full Council considered reportOSC/272 of the Chair of the Review of Outside Bodies and Organisations Scrutiny Panel

 

 

RESOLVED

 

That Full Council approves that:

 

1.         Nominations for Conservation Area Committees be defaulted to ‘Ward Councillor(s)’.

 

2.         ‘Friends Groups’ be removed from the official list of Outside Bodies as there should be no formal Councillor representation.

 

3.         Where a response was not received to the evaluation, an appointment would not usually be made by the Council (this is in line with other authorities undertaking a similar review). 

 

4.         There should be a mutual understanding between Councillors and organisations to maintain communication and effective liaison.

 

5.         Where an outside organisation with more than one Council representative expresses a desire for political diversity, we should honour this request.

 

6.         Councillor M G Jones and Councillor J Tarrant be appointed to represent the Council on Crawley Community and Voluntary Service. (Paragraph 8.1 of the report OSC/272 refers).

 

7.         The Head of Legal, Democracy and HR be instructed to amend the Council’s Constitution to reflect any relevant changes in relation to any outcomes of this review.

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