Agenda item

Report No: COU/SE/15/014

Cabinet Member: Dave Ray       Lead Officer: Joy Bowes

(For reference purposes, Forest Heath District Council’s Report Number is COU/FH/15/16)

(Following the informal discussions held with Forest Heath Council on this agenda item, Members are reminded that no further debate shall take place on items where an agreement was reached during the informal discussions.)

In introducing this item, Joy Bowes, Service Manager (Legal), informed members that the recommendations were to approve the draft Articles and Procedure Rules as included in Appendix A subject to the amendments that were included in a revised Appendix B tabled at the meeting (and is attached to these minutes).

On the motion of Councillor Ray, seconded by Councillor Farthing and duly carried, it was

RESOLVED: That

(1) the revised sections of the Constitution set out at Appendix A, with any amendments arising from consideration of the comments in Appendix B and tabled at the meeting, as replacements for the equivalent parts of its

current constitution be approved; and

(2) the Monitoring Officer be authorised to make changes or corrections to the text, numbering or layout of the adopted revised Constitution that

are necessary for consistency, accuracy, grammatical correctness and sense, and to remove any parts of the existing constitution implicitly made redundant by the adoption of the revised version or which are otherwise obsolete, prior to publication; and

(3) the Monitoring Officer be authorised, in consultation with the Leader and Chief Executive, to make any interim changes to those sections of Part 3 containing functions of the Cabinet and committees that are necessary to give effect to decisions made at the Annual Meeting prior to the adoption of a revised Part 3 at the July meeting of Council.