Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Monitoring Officer (copy enclosed).

The Council considered the report of the Monitoring Officer seeking Members’ approval of some further changes to the Constitution in light of the appointment of a Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive in place of the existing three Corporate Directors model.

It was noted that the new corporate leadership structure was due to be effective from 2 December 2024 and the Constitution needed to be updated to reflect the shift in responsibility. Appendix A to the report was an extract from the General Provisions document scheduling those previous approved designations involving a Director and / or where a change of Officer is involved. A required to change to the Access to Information Procedure Rules was also set out in this appendix.

A number of revisions to the Council’s Scheme of Delegation were also required and the contents page extracted from the Scheme of Delegation was attached at Appendix B and detailed proposed revisions highlighted where the Scheme had been affected by the current changes.

The Leader of the Council presented the report, welcoming Doug Wilkinson (Chief Executive) and Ben Cookson (Interim Chief Finance Officer) who had recently joined the Council. He congratulated Paul Dodson (Director of Strategy and Resources) on his recent appointment as Deputy Chief Executive. The Leader then moved the recommendations set out in the report and these were duly seconded and agreed.

RESOLVED

(i)             That the proposed revisions to the Scheme of Delegation documents as detailed in Appendices A and B to the report be agreed, to take effect from 2 December 2024;

(ii)            that Officers continue to be authorised to make any further consequential updates to these and associated Constitutional documents to reflect the change in the corporate leadership structure.