Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Having considered the draft Minutes of the
meeting of Harrogate and Knaresborough Area Constituency Committee
held on 18 March 2021, which had been printed and circulated, the
Chief Executive Officer agreed that the Minutes be signed as a
correct record.
By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under his
emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the
Harrogate and Knaresborough Area Constituency Committee
Members
Please note that usually a non-key executive
decision by an officer is not open to call-in, however in a spirit
of transparency such decisions by the Chief Executive Officer under
his emergency delegated powers WILL be open to call in.
Under his delegated decision making powers in the Officers’
Delegation Scheme in the Council’s Constitution, the Chief
Executive Officer has power, in cases of emergency, to take any
decision which could be taken by the Council, the Executive or a
committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light
of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote
live-broadcast committee meetings should continue, with any formal
decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under
his emergency decision making powers and after consultation with
other Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into
account any views of the relevant Committee Members. This approach
will be reviewed by full Council at its July meeting.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Members of Harrogate
and Knaresborough Area Constituency Committee, and agreed the
Minutes as a correct record.
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Publication date: 14/06/2021
Date of decision: 11/06/2021
Effective from: 22/06/2021