The
Committee considered the report of Mr Sam Bailey, the Democratic
and Administration Services Manager, which outlined proposals for
the decommissioning of the Democracy Committee.
Mr
Bailey advised that this report had been requested by Councillor
Harper who considered that agenda items for this Committee had
tended to be light and he felt that the functions of the Committee
could easily be distributed to other existing Committees of the
Council.
The
Committee made the following observations on the
proposal:-
·
That there would be a further reduction of the
workload of the Committee due to the outside bodies being moved to
other Committees as a result of the Outside Bodies
Review.
·
That the Democracy and Employment Committees could
merge.
·
There should be a wider review carried out which
looked at all the Committees, considering their size,
responsibilities and whether there should be any reductions in the
number of Committees overall.
·
That a scoping report be brought to the next
Committee meeting which set out the terms of reference of the
review, to include the original principles agreed by the Council
when the review of Committees was carried out in 2015.
RESOLVED:
1)
That a review be carried out into the functions and
terms of reference of all the Committees, excluding the Regulatory
Committees.
2)
That a scoping report be brought to the next
Committee meeting setting out the terms of reference for the
review, including the original principles agreed by the
Council.
Voting For:
8 Against:
0 Abstentions: 1