Issue - meetings
MINUTES
Meeting: 10/09/2013 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 3)
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To confirm as a correct record of the proceedings the unrestricted minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 23rd July 2013.
Minutes:
Matter Arising
The Chair:
· Informed OSC members that at the last OSC meeting Councillor Rachael Saunders, Vice-Chair OSC (in the Chair), had indicated that he would be inviting the Mayor to attend the next OSC meeting [10th September], for one of a series of ‘spotlight sessions’ during the year. This spotlight was intended to focus on the challenges and opportunities the Mayor foresaw for delivery of improved quality of life for local people in the year ahead, and consequently with the passage of time the spotlight theme would be less meaningful. Councillor Rachael Saunders, Vice-Chair (representing the Chair) had extended the invitation at Cabinet on 31st July and the Chair had formalised this in a subsequent letter. Unfortunately the Mayor had declined the invitation, because of prior commitments and this was the third such declined invitation. The Mayor had indicated he was available on several future dates, but these were not scheduled OSC meeting dates and the Chair considered that the Mayor should attend one of the latter. Therefore, with OSC agreement, he intended to invite the Mayor to the next OSC meeting [1st October} for the spotlight session, but also to request details of the Mayor’s diary commitments on future scheduled OSC meeting dates, should he not be able to attend the meeting on 1st October. This was in order to identify a meeting he could attend, and thereby prevent non-attendance and disrespecting of the OSC through this.
The Chair Moved and it was:-
Resolved
That the unrestricted minutes of the ordinary meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, held on 23rd July 2013, be agreed as a correct record of the proceedings, and the Chair be authorised to sign them accordingly.
Action by:
Angus Taylor (Principal Committee Officer, Democratic Services, CE’s)