Agenda item

To consider the report of the Head of Legal & Democratic Services (attached).

The Council received a report from the Governance Working Group on the issues it had discussed at its meeting on 28 January 2022. The Group had reviewed and made a number of recommended changes to the Terms of Reference of the Executive, Committees & Other Bodies and the Scheme of Delegation of Functions to Officers. These documents had been reviewed as part of the holistic review of the Constitution being undertaken by the Monitoring Officer.

RESOLVED that

(i)     the Terms of Reference of the Executive, Committees and Other Bodies be updated, as set out at Annex A to the agenda report; and

(ii)   the Scheme of Delegation of Functions to Officers in respect of non-executive functions be updated, as set out at Annex B to the agenda report.