Report No. 43/2019 was received from the Strategic Director for Resources, the purpose of which was to present an updated Constitution for approval.

Mr Hemsley moved the recommendations on the report.  Mr Gale seconded the recommendations.

Mr Horsfield, Monitoring Officer, provided a brief introduction highlighting some of the main changes in the report and acknowledging the work that had been put into reviewing all the revised sections by the Constitution Review Working Group.

During debate the following points were noted:

      i.         Members requested that a note be put in the glossary to confirm that where the text referred to “he” this also referred to “she” and vice-versa;

     ii.         It was confirmed that the proposal was that Vice Chairs be appointed by the respective Committees.  Chairmen would continue to be appointed by Council;

   iii.         New members should be fully briefed on the contents of the Constitution and be provided with a link to access the electronic version;

   iv.         The revised version was in an easier format and had been scaled down considerably.

RESOLVED

1)  To APPROVE the Constitution in so far as these fall within the powers of Council as detailed in the table at 2.3.3 of Report No. 43/2019.

2)  To NOTE the approval of the Leader for those powers that fall within the remit of the Executive as detailed in the table at 2.3.3 of Report No. 43/2019.