Issue - meetings
ANY OTHER BUSINESS WHICH THE CHAIR CONSIDERS URGENT
Meeting: 08/09/2014 - Standards Advisory Committee (Item 6)
ANY OTHER BUSINESS WHICH THE CHAIR CONSIDERS URGENT
To consider any other unrestricted business that the Chair considers to be urgent.
Minutes:
Update on Member Information and Member timesheets
The Chair informed SAC members that Matthew Mannion, Committee Services Manager, had Tabled a background briefing note containing an update on the democracy pages on the authority’s website, Member Information, Member timesheets and Member enquiries, a copy of which would be interleaved with the minutes.
The Chair drew the attention of SAC members to the penultimate paragraph of the tabled paper, where it was proposed that the Committee Services Manager and Members Support Manager present a report to the next SAC meeting on recent changes to the Democracy web pages and some proposed further developments as well as the new electronic timesheet system. He commented that it would be important to identify ways to capture and report Member activity in a more transparent way than previously, as current arrangements did not provide for a true reflection of such activity nor communication its importance.
A SAC member requested that all Members be sent a copy of the Member timesheet as new Members were not aware of it and a backlog of uncompleted Member timesheets was likely to be developing.
The Vice-Chair commented that he had recently had occasion to write to the Aman Dalvi, Corporate Director Development and Renewal, and had been surprised by the content of the email response. Accordingly he sought and was given clarification as to whether there were protocols for the drafting of correspondence
Action by:
Matthew Mannion (Committee Services Manager)
Beverley McKenzie (Member Support Manager)