Issue - meetings

Amendment to the Constitution

Meeting: 21/06/2023 - Democracy and General Purposes Committee (Item 20)

20 Amendment to the Constitution PDF 162 KB

View item 20 as HTML 58 KB

Additional documents:

Appendix 1 - Monitoring Officer Use of Delegation to Amend the Constitution, item 20 PDF 87 KB View as HTML (20/2) 2 KB

Minutes:

The Director of Strategy, Insight & Governance outlined the report and highlighted the recommended change to introduce a requirement that a motion on notice signed by at least two members would be required to bring a motion for the removal of the Leader of the Council to the Council.

In response to questions the Director of Strategy, Insight & Governance stated that two members was the same number of members as required by previous versions of the constitution.

RESOLVED: That

1. Council be recommended to approve the amendment to part A2, 7.2 The Leader as set out in Option 1 of this report; and

2. The use of the Monitoring Officer’s delegation to amend the Constitution attached at Appendix 1 to the report be noted.