Issue - meetings
Update from Constitutional Working Party - Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Voting Rights of Co-opted Members
Meeting: 05/07/2017 - General Purposes Committee (Item 4)
To consider whether the Muslim Faith representative on the Overview and Scrutiny Committee should have voting rights. This report advises as to the considerations of the Constitutional Working Party at its meeting on 22nd June 2017.
Minutes:
Paul Greeno, Senior Corporate and Governance Lawyer, introduced the report and explained that the proposal to enable the Muslim Faith representative on the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to vote on education matters had been suggested to regularise this provision across all co-opted members of that committee.
RESOLVED:
That the General Purposes Committee:
1. Recommend to Council that the Muslim Faith representative on the Overview and Scrutiny Committee is able to vote on Education matters.