Issue - meetings

The Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee is asked to consider and identify work priorities for its next meeting pending a wider review of its work plan at a future meeting.

The Chairman presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'C' to these minutes in the Minute Book. The Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee was asked to consider and identify work priorities for its next meeting pending a wider review of its work plan at a future meeting.

The Chairman proposed a date for the next meeting in-line with the next Cabinet date to ensure that those items previously agreed for scrutiny by the Overview and Scrutiny Board could be considered. There was concern raised that this would mean that two of the committee’s five meetings would be very close together.

A number of issues from the current list of items were highlighted by Board members including that there were some working groups which were still standing and the status of these would need to be considered.

The Chairman suggested that it would be useful for the Committee to meet informally to discuss some of these issues in drawing up a Work Plan for the Committee. Some concerns were raised that this should be done within a formal public meeting to ensure full transparency regarding what is placed on the formal public work plan.

The Chairman suggested that the best way to move forward with this was to agree the items for the next meeting from the legacy list and then to move forward with setting items for the remainder of the meetings for the municipal year. There was an issue raised that only looking at two items per meeting may be quite limiting. However, the Chairman explained that scheduling two items in would allow for provision of additional items to be added with shorter notice.

RESOLVED: It was agreed that the Future Places Cabinet Report and a report on the Winter Gardens be brought to the next meeting of the Committee. The Committee would agree further items for the work plan for the remainder of the municipal year at a future date.